ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

The rubber stamps were designed by Ken Friedman, Chuck Welch, Bill Gaglone, Steve Random, Luce Fierens, and Ed Varney on the occasion of an exhibition by Ken Friedman, entitled, Rubber Stamps, at Stamp Art Gallery in San Francisco. The original Friedman rubber stamp was designed by Wolfgang Feelish and became among the most widely reproduced stamp in international mail art networking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A typed, photocopied caption at the bottom of the sheet reads, You have been dropped from the New York Correspondence School - Ray Johnson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Lloyd, "GINA LOTTA POST is an artist stamp post evolved out of the correspondence art activities of Ginny Lloyd. Founded in 1978, there have been both several one-of-a-kind stamps and multiple edition issues. Headquartered in San Francisco, where most of the editions are published, several GINA LOTTA POST editions have been published elsewhere: Budapest, Munich, Poland, Amsterdam, Cleveland and New York.Various mediums are used in the creation of the stamps: photographs, computer graphics, collage, rubber stamps, etc. the stamps are intended to be used to illuminate mailings as will as to be displayed as prints.GINA LOTTA POST is an artist book containing stamp issues that have not been published previously, as well as, reproductions from published editions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These rubberstamps and their prints were appropriated by gaglione from Raoul Hausmann's poster poems done in 1918. The booklet is dedicated to Hausmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Stored in Stamp Art gallery folded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The 100 stamps each depict a different portrait. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gaglione used the name Picasso Gaglione rather than Bill Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue edited by John Held Jr. describes the historic aspects of Klein's blue stamp that was used to address a letter in 1957 and was cancelled by the French postal service. The stamps were made from postal service sheets of perforated stamps by either dipping them into blue paint or hand painting them according to different authorities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The rubber stamp made by John Held Jr. and Bill Gaglione is a reproduction of the dated cancellation (6-5-1957) that cancelled Klein's "blue stamp." The stamp is mounted in p\apercard in the box with the color of "Klein Blue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The rubber stamp made by John Held Jr. and Bill Gaglione is a reproduction of the dated cancellation (6-5-1957) that cancelled Klein's "blue stamp." The stamp is mounted in p\apercard in the box with the color of "Klein Blue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This edition was designed and produced by Picasso Gaglione. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Presented and created by Bill Gaglione and edited by Ted Purves who state that art scholars consider Kocman the neo-father of contemporary stamp art aka rubberstamping art. Onthe inside back cover, Kocman has handwritten [facsimile] a paraphrasse by Wittgenstrin "The limit of my languafe is the limit of my world" as "The limit of my love is the limit of my world." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.