Personally produced petro-stamps:

Canada started a trend when it produced booklets of
self-adhesive, 43¢ stamp "frames" with a blank central area
that allowed the user to insert a personal picture. The
examples above show customized petro-stamps with a oil rig
vignettes from British, Argentinian and Soviet stamps.

A change in postal rates led to the issuance of a second-
series of 45¢-denominated Canadian stamp frames. The two
examples directly below were made using refinery vignettes
from Polish and Canadian stamps and these unique combinations
were completely postally valid, at least for domestic use. Several
additional examples of such stamps are shown below —
see if you can identify the sources of the vignettes.

Starting in the late 1990's several countries allowed the computerized custom
printing of stamps and stamp tabs — some examples are shown below.

Australia was one of first countries to produce stamps
with customer-designed tabs. This is one that I created
with an early oil field scene from a Pennsylvania
a stock certificate of 1864. The holographic stamp
notes the new millennium.

Starting in 2000, Canada printed small designs based on photographs supplied by the
public to produce stick-on designs that could be used with government-designed stamp
frames. This block shows petro-stamps produced from a vignette taken from an
1865 stock certificate showing an oil field scene in Pennsylvania.

© Peter A. Scholle, 2000

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