His immediate elation over this small trove was tempered when he realized that each envelope's embossed red-and-white stamp was marked "150 cents" seven cents short for first-class mail.
It will reappear as a quarterly, designed by Pentagram, with larger pages and full-color illustrations rather than black-and-white postage stamps.
Land O' Lakes cheese blocks from Minnesota, in plain white boxes stamped "Not for Retail".
Miscellaneous Office and Stationary Supplies is also known as writing ink, slates, boards, black boards, white boards, stamps.
So in an oft-repeated daily ritual, a white truck stamped with a FreshDirect logo arrives at the doorstep of a high-rise building.
A box of his papers that I recently uncovered shows evidence of that Jim Crow era in action — a receipt for his poll taxes from 1917, identifying him as white and stamped with the name of the sheriff, Frank Kitchens.
Monday includes a broomstick dance at 2 p.m. near the Grote Markt followed by ritual "onion-throwing" -- actually wrapped pink and white candy stamped with a number for a drawing at the end of the day.
The chef, her face barely visible under her floppy white hat, stamped her foot, forward then back, two or three times, an impromptu metronome.
The doctor, an Air Force major, once reached into his pocket and took out a white packet stamped in military lettering: battle dressing.
The two versions of the red, white and blue stamp are identical save the caption, "Liberty" and "Liberte". Both will be released July 4 at Liberty Island.
