Add floral style to your letters with these stunning vintage unused Beautiful Blooms series "Tulip" postage stamps! This classic botanical design is perfect for adding a pop of color to your save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, shower invites, birth announcements, and other snail mail correspondence. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 41-cents. These authentic USPS postage stamps are suitable for current mailing when used with the total required postage based on the weight of your mailing. Deliver floral elegance with this exquisite vintage postage stamp!

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition postage stamps shown in the product listing photos.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Name: Tulip
• Series: Beautiful Blooms
• Year Issued: 2007
• Face Value: 41-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Flowers, Floral, Botanical, Fragrant, Gardening
• Color(s): Yellow, Orange, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save the Date Announcements, Shower Invitations, Birth Announcements, Thank You Cards, Valentine’s Day, Snail Mail, and more…
• Printing Method: Photogravure
• Scott Number: 4185
• Adhesion Type: Self-adhesive
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 41-cent “Tulip” postage stamp is part of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Beautiful Blooms series, a modern floral program introduced to showcase flowers as expressive works of art rather than strict botanical studies. Issued by the USPS on August 10th, 2007, in Portland, Oregon, the series reflected a mid-2000s design shift toward bold color, painterly style, and emotionally resonant imagery suitable for everyday correspondence.

The stamp’s design features a single tulip blossom shown in close-up, its smooth, cup-shaped petals gently unfolding. The petals are rendered in rich, saturated yellow to orange tones with subtle gradations of light and shadow that emphasize their silky texture and refined curves. The background is understated and unobtrusive, keeping the viewer’s focus on the flower’s simple, iconic form. The overall effect is fresh, balanced, and quietly uplifting—capturing the tulip’s long-standing associations with spring, renewal, and elegant restraint.

FLOWER INFORMATION: Yellow tulips are a popular spring flower with warm, vibrant petals that symbolize happiness, joy, and friendship. They are often one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring. Tulips entered recorded history through the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. While red and variegated tulips often dominated courtly obsession, yellow tulips were admired for their sunlit clarity and purity of color. They appeared in Ottoman poetry and garden design as symbols of light, balance, and divine order—reflecting the Islamic aesthetic ideal that gardens should echo paradise. The flower reached Western Europe in the mid-1500s, most famously through botanical exchanges that eventually led to the Dutch tulip trade. During the height of Tulip Mania in the 1630s, yellow tulips were less financially prized than rare striped varieties, but they remained popular in domestic gardens due to their reliability and cheerful presence. Their accessibility helped cement tulips—especially yellow ones—as flowers of the people rather than purely elite status symbols.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: Victorians believed yellow tulips meant “there's sunshine in your smile". Yellow tulips are a popular choice for gardeners and gift-givers, and are often given as gifts to celebrate new jobs, new homes, or the birth of a baby. They can also be a good gift for someone who is starting a new chapter in their life, such as an engagement, wedding, moving to a new home, or having a new baby. Yellow tulips are associated with the sun and spring, and can be used to celebrate friendships.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The “Beautiful Blooms” series is a set of 10 different flowers designed by artist Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, and was first issued by the United States Postal Service (USPS) on August 10, 2007 in Portland, Oregon. Photographer Mark Laita of Culver City, California, created the artistic images of the beautiful blooms featured on these stamps. Unlike botanical or garden-specific programs that focused on realism or seasonal cycles, this series highlighted bold, decorative blossoms presented almost as portraits—lush, close-up views that emphasize color, texture, and visual impact. These magnificent flowers may be seen coast to coast, not only in gardens, but floating on ponds, and adorning trees. The flowers featured were popular, widely recognized blooms commonly associated with bouquets and celebrations. The ten flowers depicted on the Beautiful Blooms series stamps are echinacea (also known as the purple coneflower), tulip, water lily, poppy, spider chrysanthemum, orange gerbera daisy, iris, dahlia, vulcan magnolia, and red gerbera daisy.

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use the adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates at USPS.com.

TELL YOUR STORY IN STAMPS: We’ve worked with hundreds of couples and their stationers to custom design highly stylized personalized postage sets based on our customer’s life stories. We can help you curate personalized vintage postage sets to commemorate your save-the-date, wedding, shower, announcement, and other special occasions in a truly unique fashion. Drawing on our encyclopedic knowledge of every stamp ever issued by the USPS, and sourcing from our extensive inventory of collectable unused vintage stamps, we’ll help you tell your unique story in stamps!

ABOUT HERITAGE POST HOUSE: Jennifer Kramer is the founder of Heritage Post House, a boutique vintage postage house located in Northern California. Jennifer sources the most beautiful unused vintage postage stamps ever issued by USPS and artfully arranges them into curated postage sets that are sure to add a special touch to your invitations, announcements, and special mailings. In addition to creating pre-arranged postage sets, Jennifer also works with couples (and their stationers) to create one-of-a-kind custom postage arrangements for wedding invitations, save the dates, and other special occasions.


Product Specifications

Length: 0.98 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 0.87 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.