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An artistamp (a portmanteau of the words "artist" and "stamp") or artist's stamp refers to a postage stamp-like artform. It is similar to a Cinderella stamp in that it is not valid for postage, but it differs from a forgery or a bogus stamp in that (typically) the creator has no intent to fool any post office or collector of stamps. (However, depending on how the stamp is used, it may be difficult to distinguish artistamps from local post stamps.) The artistamp is intended to be a miniature artwork which can depict or commemorate any subject its creator chooses.

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Comment by William M on July 30, 2017 at 10:53am: Some freshly stamped artistamps.

Comment by Toni Hanner -- tonipoet on May 31, 2017 at 12:39am: Thanks Tiziana! for the note about Carl Chew -- at first I was confused--I though you were referring to the U.S. postal Service stamps that are coming out. Now I see you were saying my artistamps were by him. Fantastic!

Comment by William M on May 30, 2017 at 1:25pm: New rubber stamped artistamps i stamped out tonight.

Comment by TIZIANA BARACCHI on May 30, 2017 at 8:39am: Toni! Be sure!

Stamps are made by Carl T. Chew!

ciao

Comment by Toni Hanner -- tonipoet on May 29, 2017 at 10:28pm: A while back, some wonderful artist sent me a little package of 4 artistamps. I failed to keep track of the artist who sent them, and I'd really like to know. They have the word "Triangle" on them and one says "30 Years of using my swallow rubberstamp" -- they're really well done.

Comment by Azzaro on March 1, 2017 at 12:48am: 2 from my Takangarika Island Post Fish Series. Anyone interested in exchanging artistamps please get in touch

Comment by William M on February 28, 2017 at 4:17pm: Thanks Jan! They are all hand stamped. I brayered the watered down red sumi ink as background last night and then this afternoon I got the black sumi ink out and hand stamped the sheet.

Comment by Jan Hodgman on February 28, 2017 at 4:12pm: Wow, William, truly great set! So you hand-stamped these individually, or did a sheet then copied it?

Comment by William M on February 28, 2017 at 4:08pm: I think as long as it's not obviously trying to be used to as legal postage there's not an issue. I'm pretty sure this issue is discussed in John Held Jr.'s book on artistamps, but I can't recall exactly what was said in it. I know there have been artists who have sent work via the mail with only artistamps to see if the post office would notice.

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on February 28, 2017 at 3:24pm: Hmmmm, William M, I guess what I was driving toward was a legal definition of counterfeit stamp so's I c'd avoid lawbreaking while committing japery.

I imagine that illegal stamps would be those which were created in an attempt to avoid paying to use the postal system. -- or -- perhaps one w'd actually be required to try to pass them off as postage to be breaking the law.

Y'r ol' Bud,

Fike

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