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The confetti in the cover bag came from the perforations of the punched pages. -- 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.

Each internal page of the leaflet has a single, hand painted, artist stamp collaged onto it. The work was done concurrent to an exhibition "Lettrisme & Hypergraphie" held at the Galerie Stadler in 1964; the Sackner Archive holds the ordinary and deluxe edition of this catalogue. According to Frederic Acquaviva, all of the drawings were done by Jacques Spacagna including the forging of signatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The currency of each European country was cut into 12 rectangular parts and their edges deckled to give the appearance of stamps. The silkscreen cover is a highly enlarged red photocopied, abstract image on a yellow background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page contains an artist stamp of Queen Elizabeth that progressively increases in size and in the scratched, cancelled surfaces until the Queen's profile is totally obscured on the final stamp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.