I was flipping through this month's copy of Westways, the Southern California AAA member magazine, of all things, when I ran across a feature on vintage automobile stamps. I was attracted to the images from my favorite period in U.S. automotive design, the 50s, but then I saw a link to something called the Postal Art Gallery. This site, operated in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service, offers framed display-size images of U.S. stamps.

There's some pretty damn cool stuff there. Like check out the train, man, or the retroid Space Fantasy, or the suggestively titled Space Exploration: Probing the Vastness II. I searched to see if they offered framed displays of the Richard Nixon stamp, but it was nowhere to be found.

If you like stamp art, you may be interested to known that John Lennon was a philatelist. I heard a news report just this week stating that John Lennon's stamp collection is going to be on display at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.