Stamp Releases: January 2018

Here are your January 2018 stamps, folks! All are currently available. So happy to get a matching fruit design in the small value range with the new Meyer Lemon stamps, but I'm less happy that I still have to wait for them to release it in a form other than a $200 coil. Of course, the Anna Bond (of Rifle Paper Co.) designed "Love" stamp is a favorite. Lena Horne is SO HAPPY on this stamp that I can't stop smiling to look at her. The two high value stamps are also very nice looking. To me, the only dud is the Lunar New Year. It's just sort of blah. Honestly, I haven't really cared for this particular Lunar New Year series. I loved the paper cut ones so much. You can still see a vestige of them in the gold design of the dog in the upper left corner. What do you all think?

Comments

[Karen BRASETH]

I feel like “the market” is over saturated with Rifle Paper Co products - I find them in nearly every stationery, specialty grocery, tchotchke, book & gift shop I’ve visited while traveling in the past few years (except the Chicago Architecture Foundation...). Having said that, I gotta get this stamp!!!!

[Joe F.]

Nice set of stamps, and I kinda like the Lunar New Year one (but I like all of them; I guess it's just something about the overall design æsthetic that appeals). But man, I *really, really* want that dragon set to be released so I can buy, er, I dunno. A thousand? Ten thousand? Eighty-seven million? (Checks pockets.) Okay, probably more like sixty.

[Cynthia]

Sorry but none of these excite me.

[Terri Beth]

Tapping my foot for the LENA stamp to be released! Love it!

[JJalltheway]

I'm with Karen on the ubiquity of Rifle. I will likely buy a sheet of these, though not with a thrill in my heart. That will come with the Art of Magic and the Dragon stamps. Can't wait for those!

[Chris Purcell]

Yes, I’m down on the Lunar NewYear stamps...if it’s the year of the Dog, I want to see a dog!