Most illustrators now use programs like Photoshop or Corel Painter to create stamp images, a process that is faster and easier, said Steven Buchanan, the illustrator of new Postal Service stamps that depict lifelike reptiles and amphibians.
And stamp images once had so much authority that in 1901, an engineer opposed to the digging of a Nicaraguan canal scared United States senators by presenting each with a Nicaraguan stamp showing the eruption of the nearby Mount Momotombo; the canal was dug in Panama instead.
In the Theaetetus (191c,d) he raises the idea that memory might be analogous to a wax tablet into which our perceptions and thoughts stamp images of themselves, as a signet ring stamps impressions in wax.
You can also stamp images or words, and/or add stickers, beads, etc. Color with pencils.
Use Ebay to try and match stamp images with stamps from your own collection, learn about what kind of information other sellers use to best describe your stamps.
Each window will contain one or more stamp images from the museum's collection.
