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Homage Stamps - A Tutorial |
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| What is a Homage Stamp?
Homage stamps are created to pay respect to another letterboxer. They usually look like the letterboxer's personal stamp, but with a slight change in the stamp's image and name. They may also take a cue from the signature stamp, something that identifies who it is about. A few look completely different then the signature stamp, but are a wordplay on the stamp. How did they come about? I think the blame can be laid squarely on the shoulders of the "Hairy Legged Boxers," a group of letterboxers that collaborate and then go find Mapsurfer boxes. It all came about several years ago when we were on a particularly long hike (much longer then it should have been, actually). We were discussing other letterboxers that they liked, and in particular Silent Doug. Someone called him Silent Duck, which I found pretty funny. "You know, I could make that stamp, it would be simple, just take his stamp and add a duck bill." Thus Silent Duck was born, along with several other silent characters, such as Silent Dog, Silent Duke, and Silent Dude. How can I get these images? They started out as alter ego characters, and have pretty much remained that way. They show up at gatherings on event boards and in letterboxes. Some people carry them as personal travelers. Some create them and then hand them off to someone else to move around. Usually you have to figure out who is carrying which one and then ask for the image. Sometimes they are simply passed around. They are indigenous to the Mid Atlantic region, but they are spreading. |
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| Images Below are some of the Homage Stamps I have managed to collect. I will start out with the signature stamp, and then follow it with the homage stamps. Names of the guilty parties have been omitted. |
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