S & H Green Stamps Saver Book [1960s-70s approx.]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.30
Description
A blank booklet issued by the Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamps company, likely during their peak of popularity in the 1960s and early 1970s. S & H green stamps were a form of retail loyalty program: retailers would bulk-purchase the stamps and issue them to customers on the basis of their purchase amounts. Customers who collected the stamps would paste them into booklets like this one, which could be redeemed by mail for a dollar amount (this booklet, completed, would be worth $2.00 if redeemed for cash) or for consumer goods selected from the S & H catalogue. In 1960, the residents of Old Town, Maine pooled completed Green Stamp books to purchase the town's first ambulance.