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Canadian Stamp Icon. Old School!

Canada's First Stamp Icon StandfirstHawk Wings reader Richard Drdul sends an image of a very Old School Canadian postage stamp, drawn up as a Mail stamp icon.

It is, he tells me, Canada’s first ever postage stamp issued in 1851, and was designed by Sir Sandford Fleming, who also invented time zones.

It was also the first official postage stamp in the world to picture an animal.

The postmark reads “Greetings from Upper Canada,” which is what the province of Ontario (where Apple’s Canadian HQ is) used to be called.

You can download the original PNG file or the ICNS file here.

Changing the icon itself is easy. (UPDATE: Unless you are using Snow Leopard, in which case it is not so easy, but can still be done. I’ll post a a Snow Leopard guide tonight.)

I’ve added it to the list of alternative stamp icons for Mail.app, making a total now of 509.

[Thanks, Richard]mail.app, apple mail, icons, stamp icons, hacks

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4 Responses to “Canadian Stamp Icon. Old School!”

  1. Todd Mundt says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 1:03 am

    Is it just me, or does the simple icon replacement method no longer work for Snow Leopard? I’ve changed Mail icons in Tiger and Leopard to display a Canadian stamp, but haven’t been able to do this in 10.6.

  2. Neil says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 2:47 am

    Just a heads-up that messing with Mail’s internal resources (like changing the icon) can have some adverse effects, due to the fact that Apple code signs all of its applications now. I could be wrong about this, but I’m fairly certain if you change the icon it will break code signing and cause issues when Mail tries to access the keychain.

  3. Denis Forgues says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 4:19 am

    Sorry, but not working anymore with Snow Leopard ;-((

  4. Tim Gaden says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 6:33 am

    Gentlemen, you are right. I have been caught out by Snow Leopard again. Apologies.

    It can still be done (I’ve just tried it and it works), but you need to replace the app.icns file inside mail.app’s application package. I’ll post up a walk through tonight.

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