Inside The New York Botanical Garden

Morning Eye Candy: Stamp of Approval

Posted in Photography on January 29 2016, by Matt Newman

The New York Botanical Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library is home to a trove of botanical treasures—and not just of the written variety. Our Library also contains one of the country’s most extensive collections of nursery and seed catalogs, windows into the rich history of botany and horticulture that are valued as much for their incredible artwork as for their academic uses.

Thanks to a partnership with the U.S. Postal Service, you can now bring a bit of that art home in the form of 10 colorful new postage stamps from the Botanical Art Forever collection. Each one boasts a piece of artwork from a catalog published as early as the Garden’s founding in 1891 and up into the early 20th century. They’ll be available nationwide, so keep an eye out!

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Comments

Mary Ahern said:

This is a beautiful stamp collection! My post office hasn’t received them in yet but when they do I’ll be stocking up on them for a year’s worth of mailings. I have a certificate of Botanical Illustration from NYBG so I’m very tuned into the quality of botanical Art. Thanks for the heads up!

Trudy Smoke said:

Always look forward to MEC, and this one is great. Thanks for letting us know about these. They are gorgeous. What a treat. I’ll definitely keep my eye out for them. –TS

Laura Willson said:

This exhibit looks great. It reminded me of an amazing stamp museum in Oaxaca, Mexico – Museo de la Filatelia (www.mufi.org.mix). They have an unbelievable collection of stamps of all sorts of Flora & Fauna!

Barbara Reiner said:

these are absolutely gorgeous…

Hugh Washburne said:

Can someone identify each of the ten flowers depicted on the stamps? Thanks!