When I read the following article about a man who decorated his furniture with stamps, I had to share it. I am a huge fan of decoupage and now wish I still had my old stamp collection.
Postage Stamp Bed
How a Kansas City Man Ornamented a Piece of Furniture
Patients is a virtue which some people exemplify in remarkable ways. One of the most patient men in small things is W.S. Wear, janitor of the Karnes School, Kansas City. Last fall he read a story of a family with a whole bedroom set covered with postage stamps, pasted on until it looked like a patchwork quilt. And straightway Wear determined to indulge in the same pastime.
He got the school children to begin collecting stamps for him, and after they had collected about 100,000 he commenced work, putting 10,000 on one bed.
Over 400 foreign stamps were pasted on the crib, and Wear says a stamp collector told him many of them were very valuable. The children in their enthusiasm begged old stamps, many of which had been used to send the love letters of their grandmothers. There are American stamps in the collection that the present generation never even heard of.
Wear has two or three bushels of stamps left, and will spend his idle moments decorating the rest of his household furniture with them.
Source: Willmar tribune. (Willmar, Minn.), 26 Oct. 1897.
