S&H Green Stamps
Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on thin wove paper
Year: 1965
Image: 22 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches (57 x 56.5 cm)
Sheet: 23 1/8 x 22 7/8 inches (58.7 x 58.1 cm)
Edition: Approximately 300
There was also an edition of 6,000 folded mailers
Publisher: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Printer: Eugene Feldman
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.9
This mailing announcement was created for Warhol’s exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, October 8-November 21, 1965.
Andy Warhol’s S&H Green Stamps highlights a quintessential symbol of mid-twentieth century American consumerism. Introduced in 1896 by Thomas A. Sperry and Shelly B. Hutchinson, S&H Green Stamps became a beloved part of daily life for many Americans, especially housewives in the 1950s and 1960s. Shoppers collected the stamps, which were distributed at supermarkets and gas stations, and carefully pasted them into booklets based on the value of their purchases.
S&H Green Stamps Saver Book, c. 1970s.
These booklets could then be redeemed for a range of household goods, from dishes to clocks. Captivated by the repetitiveness and commercial ubiquity of the stamps, Warhol first engaged with the motif in 1962, when he meticulously carved the logo into an eraser, using it to hand-stamp the motif across canvas. In both print and paint, the repeated, ready-made imagery of the S&H Green Stamps logo provided Warhol a means to explore his fascination with twentieth century consumer culture, mass production, and the art of repetition, once again elevating an everyday consumer object to the realm of fine art.
Green Stamps catalogue pages, offering various household glassware, men’s accessories and tobacco items, which could be acquired when shoppers redeemed their S&H Stamps saver books.
Source: Phillips
Auction Results
Sotheby’s London: 24 September 2025
Estimated: GBP 5,000 – 7,000
PASSED
ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
S&H Green Stamps (F. & S. II.9), 1965
Offset lithograph printed in colours on thin wove paper
Signed in ball-point pen and dated
From the edition of approximately 300 (only some of which were signed)
Estimated: USD 3,000 – 4,000
USD 3,328
Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper
From the edition of approximately 300
Initialed in pencil ‘FH’ by Frederick Hughes (the executor of the Andy Warhol estate) on the reverse
With the ‘Estate of Andy Warhol’ inkstamp on the reverse
Estimated: GBP 1,500 – 2,000
GBP 6,096 / USD 8,230
(there was also an edition of 6000 folded mailers)
With the Estate of Andy Warhol inkstamp
Initialled ‘JH’ in pencil on the reverse
Phillips London: 23 January 2025
Estimated: GBP 1,500 – 2,000
GBP 3,048 / USD 3,765
ANDY WARHOL
S&H Green Stamps (F. & S. 9), 1965
Offset lithograph in colors on lightweight wove paper
From the edition of approximately 300 (there was also an edition of 6000 folded mailers)
With the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Visual Arts Foundation inkstamps
Initialed ‘T.J.H.’ by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation
Annotated ‘013S AWE.606’ in pencil on the reverse
Freeman’s Hindman: 22 August 2024
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 6,000
USD 8,255
ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
S&H Green Stamps, 1965
Offset lithograph in colors on paper
Ink signed and dated
Presumably from the edition of approximately 300
Sotheby’s London: 26 September 2023
Estimated: GBP 4,000 – 6,000
GBP 5,080
ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
S&H Green Stamps, 1965
Offset lithograph printed in colors on thin wove paper
With the Andy Warhol Estate inkstamps verso
Annotated in black ink with the AWAAB reference number A493.106
This impression is from the edition of approximately 300
Sotheby’s London: 15 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 3,000 – 4,000
GBP 3,556
ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
S & H Green Stamps (F. & S. II.9), 1965
Offset lithograph printed in colors on thine wove paper
From the edition of 6,000
Phillips New-York: 26 October 2022
Estimated: USD 2,000 – 4,000
USD 5,670
ANDY WARHOL
S&H Green Stamps (F. & S. 9), 1965
Offset lithograph in colors on thin wove paper
From the edition of approximately 300