This necklace features a 2023 Strega Nona USA postage stamp from the series honoring prolific children’s book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola.
The stamp art features a detail from the cover of “Strega Nona” (1975), a Caldecott Honor Book and the first in a popular series. The title character, “Grandma Witch” in Italian, uses magic to cure her neighbors’ ills and to help with matters of the heart. The stamp image shows her carrying her magic pasta pot. Derry Noyes, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp with dePaola's original art.
The images were taken from a real, used postage stamp and may have post office cancellation marks.
The size of the pendant is 20mm and the chain is 18 inches long, in a matching antique bronze finish with a lobster clasp.
Pendants are water resistant but not waterproof, I recommend removing before showering, bathing or swimming.
