S&H Green Stamps...
Conversation with a client yesterday brought up things we did as kids and S&H Green Stamps became the topic.The stamps were collected from (mostly) grocery store purchases as a rewards program. We would attach the gummed stamps into booklets and redeem them for items, typically small housewares like clock radios, blenders and other kitchen gadgets.
Quick research shows Sperry & Hutchinson (S&H) began offering stamps to U.S. retailers in 1896 and became vastly popular in the 1930's to the late 1980's.
Whenever we shopped at a store that offered stamps, we would put them in a glass bowl and when the bowl was full, we had a 'stamp sticking party' and fill up books of stamps!
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