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A Group for all that love and make artistamps. Stories, concepts, special issues, All there is to know

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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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love all those invented stamps !!!

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"To perforate or not to perforate? That is the question" 11 Replies

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Comment by MaryAnne on January 2, 2011 at 6:48pm: course, i had to foget something ... my snail address is ....

mary anne, 128, micklegate, york. yo16jx england. u k

Comment by MaryAnne on January 2, 2011 at 6:46pm: happy new year to all members of the group.

my project for 2011 is now up and running and looks like becoming quite obsessive. it is not quite a mail-art project, more of a collaborative artist book cum mini archive.

i have recently found an old stamp album with smart red covers and over a hundred usable pages. i am going to try and make a small but nice collection of interesting and curious stamps including all sorts of artistamps from the glamorous full colour, gummed and perfed jobs to the humble home-made photocopy or rubber-stamp printed types. stamps from fantastic or imaginary countries, dada, fluxus or "pop" art types, found stamps, in short, any sort of artistamp that can be imagined. i am even including the occasional real" stamps if they seem to fit such as ones that use images by surreal or dada artists and similar. the collection, like "real" stamp collections will also, hopefully, include used examples of stamps on cover, first day covers and all sorts of interesting postal markings and cancels.

to go along with this i am producing a few stamps of my own which will be available for exchange.

at the moment the project is being documented by scans of finished - or near finished pages being uploaded into a special album in the "my photos" section of this site.

i hope that many if not all of you will contribute and help make the collection into something marvelous.

Comment by Konstantin Kalendaroff on December 31, 2010 at 3:39pm

Comment by Konstantin Kalendaroff on December 28, 2010 at 1:13pm: Artistamp for a New Year...

11 copy only :)

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Comment by yves maraux on December 13, 2010 at 12:51pm: https://www.montimbrenligne.laposte.fr/

as you did

Comment by Susanna Lakner on December 8, 2010 at 1:51pm: Today, from my archive:

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