Andrew Jackson Enamel 7-cent Stamp Pin

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Our enamel lapel pin features a likeness of the 1938 7-cent U.S. postage stamp with Andrew Jackson in profile, affixed to an informational card.  The pin is 1" x 3/4" with a removable clasp.

This image of Jackson was modeled after the Belle Kinney and Leopold F. Scholz bronze statue of Jackson which stands in the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda.

The stamp series was issued in response to public clamoring for a new Regular Issue series. The series that was current at the time had been in use for more than a decade.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed, and a contest was staged. The public was asked to submit original designs for a new series picturing all deceased U.S. Presidents.  Over 1,100 sketches were submitted, many from veteran stamp collectors. Elaine Rawlinson, who had little knowledge of stamps, won the contest and collected the $500 prize. Rawlinson was the first stamp designer since the Bureau of Engraving and Printing began producing U.S. stamps who was not a government employee.

The back of the card contains the following text:

Advice to Andrew Jackson by his Mother:

In 1781, then 14 years old, Andrew Jackson enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was captured and thrown into prison where he contracted smallpox. His mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, arranged for Andrew's release through a prisoner exchange and nursed him back to health. Shortly thereafter, responding to an urgent appeal, she left for Charleston to nurse some sick neighbors who were confined to a British hospital ship. This errand of mercy cost Elizabeth her life. She caught yellow fever and died.  Elizabeth Jackson's advice to her son Andrew:

"Andrew, if I should not see you again, I wish you to remember and treasure some things I have already said to you: in this world, you will have to make your own way. To do that, you must have friends. You can make friends by being honest and you can keep them by steadfast. You must keep in mind that friends worth having will, in the long run, expect as much from you as they give to you. To forget an obligation or be ungrateful for a kindness is a base crime- not merely a fault or a sin, but an actual crime. Men guilty of it, sooner or later, must suffer the penalty. In personal conduct be always polite but never obsequious.

None will respect you more than you respect yourself. Avoid quarrels as long as you can without yielding to imposition, but sustain your manhood always. Never bring a suit in law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such outrages that can satisfy the feelings of a true man.  Never wound the feelings of others. Never brook wanton outrage upon your own feelings. If you ever have to vindicate your feelings or defend your honor, do it calmly. If angry at first, wait till your wrath cools before you proceed."

These words were repeated by General Andrew Jackson on his birthday, March 15, 1815, at New Orleans to three members of his military family: Major John H. Eaton, Major William V. Lewis, and Captain W.O. Butler.

"Gentlemen," said Jackson, "I wish she could have lived to see this day. There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and as brave as a lioness. Her last words have been the law of my life."