Heart-Shaped Globe Postage Stamps | Earth Heart | Love Series | Vintage Unused USPS Postage 29c

Add colorful global romance and vintage symbolism to your letters with these vintage unused Heart-Shaped Globe postage stamps from the USPS Love series! Featuring the Earth transformed into a heart shape with brightly colored continents, this distinctive design is perfect for adding global imagery, colorful graphic style, travel symbolism, and a universal message of love to save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, bridal shower invitations, engagement announcements, anniversary mailings, destination weddings, and other snail mail. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 29-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. These are NOT forever stamps — you must combine additional postage with this stamp to mail your correspondence according to current USPS postage rate requirements.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Stamp Name: Heart-Shaped Globe
• Stamp Series: Love
• Year Issued: 1991
• Face Value: 29-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Heart-Shaped Globe, Earth, Globe, World, Map, Continents, Heart, Love, Romance, Global Love, Travel, Destination Wedding, International Theme, USPS Love Series, USPS Commemorative Stamps
• Color(s): Blue, Green, Yellow, Red, Orange, Purple, Black, White, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Destination Weddings, Travel-Themed Weddings, International Weddings, Colorful Weddings, Bridal Shower Invitations, Engagement Announcements, Anniversary Cards, Valentine Mailings, Love Letters, Thank You Notes, Everyday Correspondence
• Printing Method: Photogravure
• Scott Number: 2535
• Adhesion Type: Gummed (see adhesion instructions below)
• Stamp Size: 24 x 32 mm / 0.94 × 1.26 in
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 1991 Heart-Shaped Globe stamp was issued as part of the USPS Love series and features the Earth transformed into the shape of a heart, with the continents rendered in bright contrasting colors. Designer Harry Zelenko created the design, which USPS approved several years before it was ultimately used for the 1991 issue. Released on May 9, 1991, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the 29-cent stamp paid the contemporary First-Class Mail letter rate. At the same ceremony where this stamp was unveiled, three other love-themed postal items (a sheet and booklet form of this stamp, a 52¢ stamp, and a stamped envelope) were also issued. The ceremony took place at the Honolulu Zoo and "Mari" the elephant was the special guest who revealed each design. The sheet-format version was printed by the U.S. Bank Note Corporation using photogravure and issued in panes of 50. Its combination of global imagery, vivid color, and unmistakable heart symbolism gives the design a distinctive place within the Love series and makes it especially appealing for destination weddings, travel-themed correspondence, and celebrations centered on love across distances.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Heart-Shaped Globe design carries themes of universal love, unity, connection, travel, shared humanity, and affection that crosses borders. The Earth rendered as a heart can be interpreted as a symbol of love embracing the whole world, while the colorful continents suggest diversity joined within a common whole. For wedding invitations, save-the-dates, destination weddings, engagements, anniversaries, and thank you notes, the stamp offers a meaningful visual expression of love without boundaries.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The USPS Love series began in 1973 and gradually developed into one of the Postal Service’s most recognizable recurring themes for romantic and celebratory correspondence. By 1991, the series had expanded beyond traditional hearts and flowers to include more imaginative imagery. The 1991 issue paired this 29-cent Heart-Shaped Globe design for the standard First-Class rate with a 52-cent Fischer’s lovebirds design for heavier two-ounce mail. USPS issued both on May 9, 1991, in Honolulu, Hawaii.