A good engraving subject

[evansd2]

You’d have to ask the designer, I suppose.

It might be because it’s a reproduction, like how you have to alter currency if you reproduce it.

[dhaykus]

If you look at the usps.com site you’ll see its like that for all the stamps, its an effort to minimize the possibility of someone trying to make counterfeit postage stamps.

[geek2nurse]

At the risk of revealing my social deficits…is it crossed out on the real stamps?

I don’t mail stuff much…

[dhaykus]

No, “FOREVER” is how they have in on first class stamps now. Once you buy them, they are good to use on a first class envelope forever.

[geek2nurse]

I guess I need to write someone a letter.

[cynd11]

Definitely worth doing in my opinion! Really came out better than expected.

[rbtdanforth]

@evansd2

if you want something done

Different than I was thinking, But crossing out forever might get some folks upset

[geek2nurse]

@rbtdanforth

Different than I was thinking, But crossing out forever might get some folks upset

See above. It’s apparently so you can’t use the reproduction as an actual stamp.

[rbtdanforth]

@geek2nurse

so you can’t use the reproduction

I rather doubt folk would used the engraved wood in any case as it is enough different in size and color,

[rbtdanforth]

I was thinking duodecahedron lamp shade anyway

[evansd2]

@rbtdanforth

I rather doubt folk

Do not underestimate the power of stupid in large numbers of people.

Also, if it’s like currency, there are probably codified rules like I alluded to above.

See way previously for this and also some context as to how I understand how greyscale works with engraves :

Electricity as the Dominant Force in the World

Before we begin: Currency Image Use – Reproducing Color Illustrations of U.S. Currency Federal law permits color illustrations of U.S. currency only under the following conditions: the illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated; the illustration is one-sided; and all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices and any other…

[rbtdanforth]

@evansd2

way previously for this and also some context

Way cool! There was a time when banks printed their own currency and I think my sister still has some old bank notes from the Danforth Bank It would be interesting to have those as boxes,

[evansd2]

@rbtdanforth

Danforth Bank

Awesome, if you find that I’d be super interested. Old money had class. New money in other countries has class. US needs to step it up.

[geek2nurse]

Danforth Dollars! Those HAVE to be engraved!

[evansd2]

Not only that, but I now demand a Danforth monopoly board. I think we know who should be banker.

[rbtdanforth]

@evansd2

Danforth monopoly board

Every little podunk bank printed their own money in those days. Needless to say, making sure folk followed the rules was iffy at best so lots of banks printed far more money than they had reserves but that is when the “don’t take wooden nickels” meme got started though wooden nickles sounds like a good idea for business cards today.

My younger sister got all those “collections”, and it has been 50 years since I laid eyes on that money.

[rbtdanforth]

A bank note from a similar Danforth Bank in Pennsylvania but not connected to the Family Bank in Danforth IL and probably older as well

[evansd2]

Dang, see? Classy.

[ptodd]

Really nice! As a kid I collected stamps.

I mail quite a few cards each year … Love having a wide assortment available.