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So I looked through the trading stamps I have, and this is the selection... a few iterations of S&H, and some other colorful variations.
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@wildholly I don't have any "Gold Bond", but there is a gold one for a Family Discount Stamp.

I didn't remember having the pink Plaid one - I'll have to figure out a fun way to incorporate it in something. It's good to check out ones stash every so often. Lol!
 
HHC said:
So I looked through the trading stamps I have, and this is the selection... a few iterations of S&H, and some other colorful variations.

@wildholly I don't have any "Gold Bond", but there is a gold one for a Family Discount Stamp.

I didn't remember having the pink Plaid one - I'll have to figure out a fun way to incorporate it in something. It's good to check out ones stash every so often. Lol!
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They are beautiful, really. Somewhere along the line, some designers had to create them. And then they were used for their purpose. It's nice that they are getting new life now.
 
What were the trading stamps traded for? Australia hasn't had anything like them during my lifetime.
HHC - some of those designs look like they will go on cards beautifully
 
Donnacr said:
What were the trading stamps traded for? Australia hasn't had anything like them during my lifetime.
HHC - some of those designs look like they will go on cards beautifully
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They were traded for assorted products; you could choose from a variety of things.
Here's a page from S&H stamps book - groups could save for buses, organs & ambulances, apparently.
S&H Stamp premiums.jpg
The Top Value stamp book shows a list of manufacturers and images of things you could choose from.
Top Value Stamps products.jpg

Top Value Stamps products 2.jpg

And that's pretty much all I know. I have no recollection of anything Mom may have gotten from collecting them. :)
 
My sister was born in 1970. My mom literally bought everything for her first Christmas with green stamps. Now, it’s not like it was a really lavish Christmas, though my mom said she made the mistake a lot of people make with a first Christmas. My sister was ten months old and the expectations of how this should be were my mom’s, not my sister’s. Still, it was much nicer than my parents, who were 22 year old college students, could have managed otherwise. I don’t know the specific items. She never told me. (And my dad won’t remember if I went downstairs and asked him. In fact, even the next Christmas, he wouldn’t have remembered the first Christmas’s gifts. That kind of thing was never his forte. He’s a historian with a blind spot for personal history.)

Anyway, toys, I’m sure. Maybe a new outfit or shoes? I don’t know, but it felt miraculous to my mom. Both sets of grandparents would have been happy to give or loan the money, but it was a point of pride with my mom. They were even all green stamps my parents earned, no donated stamps. (Not that the grandparents didn’t buy gifts from them. My sister was the first grandchild on both sides of the family. She got plenty of stuff.)

Later, my mom got my sister’s first potty chair from green stamps. I think maybe she also one of those little kid wading pools. Things like that. Not that you could only get baby items from green stamps, but that was my mom’s focus in the early 1970s.)
 
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