Postage stamps- many people collect these and make a "postage-stamp" book.
Instead, he proposed to make a series of postage stamps, each one featuring nothing but a photograph of a dead soldier.
Now that the majority of prices for UK parcels depend on size as well as weight, packing your items in the right way can make a significant difference to your postage costs.
Three people wanted the image, which has become famous since it was made into a postage stamp in 2001, and it brought $1.4 million, far above its $900,000 high estimate.
If you like to plan ahead, make a dinner booking at Bells Diner (the restaurant is the size of a postage stamp) and so is the menu.
With two tins, you can make a kit that includes a scale, lets you know how much postage you'll need, and dispenses stamps.
In Washington DC, where we make a special effort to embrace and celebrate our shared history, we have museums for postage stamps, textiles, news, medicine and spies.
The show's latest piece, done not long before Davis's death, is among the smallest, a tiny sketch, in felt marker, made for a postage-stamp design competition.
You can get a postage scale for about $10.
The cheapest postage was £8.21, making a total of £13.71, more than the price of a new copy of the book in the UK and the US.
"Our campaign is to make the Eid postage stamp permanent," said Aly Abuzaakouk, executive director of the American Muslim Council, which helped lead the drive to create the stamp.
