Hand Made Quarter Sawn Oak Frame with Pottery Stamp Series [SOLD]

Jack Holtman was an antique dealer focusing primarily on Mission Oak furniture and accessories.  He also was an expert furniture maker in the Mission Oak style.  On special commission, he made this quarter sawn oak frame to display a sheet of United States postage stamps featuring pottery.

“On April 13, 1977, the Postal Service issued four 13-cent stamps as a se-tenant issue titled Pueblo Pottery. Part of the American Folk Art Series, the stamp depicts a Zia pot (Scott 1706), San Ildefonso pot (Scott 1707), Hopi pot (Scott 1708), and Acoma pot (Scott 1709). Ford Ruthling designed the issue.

“The multicolored stamps were printed on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing seven-color Andreotti gravure press (601) as sheets of 160 subjects, tagged, perforated 11, and distributed as panes of forty (eight across, five down). Mr. Zip, “MAIL EARLY IN THE DAY,” electric eye markings, and five plate numbers, one in each color used to print the sheet, are printed in the selvage.”  Arago

This frame contains a full sheet of the pottery stamps enclosed in a frame of 3-3/4” wide quarter sawn oak sides. With a square pyramid-shape inset at each corner of the frame.

Condition: original and collectible.