Collection: National Sticker Day Gifts

Celebrate National Sticker day every day with a mug depicting, you guessed it stickers.

Stickers are addictive and are great for every occasion, reward, praise, or celebration.

European merchants in the 1880s were some of the first people to stick labels to their products in an effort to promote their goods and wares to passers-by. Originally they would use gum paste to get the labels to adhere and stick: hence the name “stickers.” By 1900 a sticker-specific paste had been developed and was widely used, most notably on stamps, which would dry and then would be able to be re-applied when moistened.

National Sticker Day is celebrated on January 13 in honor of R. Stanton Avery, who was born on that day in 1907. It was R. Stanton Avery who invented the modern version of the sticker in 1935, launching a new company and a new industry, which is fairly impressive considering he wasn’t even 30 years old yet!

R. Stanton Avery was a rags-to-riches entrepreneur who created the first commercially feasible self-sticking, peel-off labels. In addition, Avery also founded what is now Avery Dennison Corp, to manufacture and market these handy little innovations all over the world.