Pages and Pages of Green

Remember the Green? It was all available if you just had enough of the green. Those little paper books filled with the valuable green stamps.

"S&H” symbolized the Sperry & Hutchinson Co, which Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson established in 1896. S&H Green Stamps became the most popular trading stamps across the United States. They were found in many households from the 1930s to the 1980s, but it was during the 1960s and ’70s that these stamps reached their peak.

The S&H stamp story began in 1896. Salesman Tomas Sperry noted that a store was having success with a program where custom...