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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 22, 2014 21:24:27 GMT
One of the largest fairs to take place in the USA [2nd largest] attracted almost 45,000,000 visitors from 33 different countries. Venue: Flushing Meadow/Corona Park. Date; April 1939- October 1940 Organized by New York businessmen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_New_York_World's_Fair Many Promotional labels were issued as well as others at the show and by Individual Exhibitors. They most likely number in the thousands. Please add your labels here. Here are some Gold and Silver foil items to start us off. I'll find a bunch more later. These types come in all shapes and sizes, shown below are just a few.    Londonbus1.......goin' to the Fair !  |
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Post by rod222 on Jul 22, 2014 22:28:23 GMT
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Post by I.L.S. on Jul 23, 2014 13:26:47 GMT
Neat stuff! If I remember right I think I have a few tickets to this fair in my ephemera collection.
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Londonbus1
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 26, 2014 21:38:36 GMT
Here are a few more, including a closer view of one that Rod showed earlier. The 54 'Licensed Poster Stamps' series is one of sheer beauty and elegance.    The Cigar label [below] was most likely produced for use on specially-made Cigars for the fair, but I could find no details [as yet]  ...and here's one advertising the Exhibit of USS, United States Steel.  Londonbus1.....there's more !  |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 27, 2014 6:59:47 GMT
Elmer went to the fair in 1940 !!  |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 27, 2014 19:45:20 GMT
Not strictly speaking a World's Fair item but one which has a very beautiful connection. A large, informative and very good-looking Poster Stamp produced by Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania enticing everyone to visit lovely Wyoming before or after their visit to the Fair. I am sure they succeeded !!   If anyone knows who designed or printed this, please add the info below. It is very beautiful tp my eye. Londonbus1 |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 27, 2014 19:49:42 GMT
Two more private Exhibitor labels. Panco and Swift !   |
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Post by I.L.S. on Jul 28, 2014 11:08:57 GMT
these aren't cindies but relate to topic.- 
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Post by philatelia on Jul 28, 2014 13:06:46 GMT
I've never been fortunate enough to attend a world's fair. Has anyone been to one?
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 28, 2014 18:13:42 GMT
I have never been to one either.....but FLORIDA were there in 1939 !  |
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Post by jamesw on Jul 30, 2014 1:43:43 GMT
Ok, I don't like to brag (...yes you do, roared the crowd!) but last weekend's auction bonanza also yielded a complete set of the NY Worlds Fairs stamps shown previously, yet briefly by Rod and Michael. So here they are. Unfortunately firmly fastened to these sheets from the previous owners album. Do I soak them off? Leave them in situ to honour the effort made? What to do? What to do?
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Post by rod222 on Jul 30, 2014 8:50:26 GMT
Ok, I don't like to brag (...yes you do, roared the crowd!) but last weekend's auction bonanza also yielded a complete set of the NY Worlds Fairs stamps shown previously, yet briefly by Rod and Michael. So here they are. Unfortunately firmly fastened to these sheets from the previous owners album. Do I soak them off? Leave them in situ to honour the effort made? What to do? What to do? Yes you do!......... I'd leave them well alone James, they look super, why risk it? You own bragging rights for those little beauties. World's fair site Flag start bid $10 (2007) www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3642790 |
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Post by Jen B on Aug 2, 2014 2:23:58 GMT
I went to the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Being 5 years old, I don't remember much except the giant globe and the Royal tire Ferris wheel.
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Post by jamesw on Sept 13, 2015 3:53:24 GMT
Here's a little mini sheet front the Firestone exhibit at the 1939 Fair. Pretty fair!
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Post by zipper on Sept 13, 2015 4:02:11 GMT
Beautiful.
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Post by jamesw on Jan 23, 2016 22:27:39 GMT
Let's revisit this one. Here's a cover I picked up today at Unipex. 1892 Columbian postal stationary with 1939 Worlds Fair stamp and RPO cancel. Plus a Florida cinderella, from a set I showed elsewhere in the cindy section.
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Post by tomiseksj on Aug 23, 2018 15:45:34 GMT
Londonbus1 has already introduced us to Elmer but since I was in the thread replacing a blocked Photobucket image I thought I'd show my recently acquired copy.
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Post by jamesw on Aug 24, 2018 2:37:28 GMT
I was updating my images on this page earlier this evening, when I remembered THIS label in my collection.  This is the cinderella that started it all for me several years ago. Taught me what a cinderella was (thanks to the Bus, rod and several others!) and got me started on my downward label spiral! Thanks again guys! |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 24, 2018 5:06:00 GMT
Great stamp, James ( jamesw), thanks for sharing! And in the serendipity department, I just arrived in Denmark right before seeing your post. What were the odds? |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Aug 24, 2018 6:24:01 GMT
I was updating my images on this page earlier this evening, when I remembered THIS label in my collection. This is the cinderella that started it all for me several years ago. Taught me what a cinderella was (thanks to the Bus, rod and several others!) and got me started on my downward label spiral! Thanks again guys! I thought that was an upward spiral ? |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Sept 14, 2018 14:21:49 GMT
 I found this recently for my 'Flags on Cinderellas' collection. Not quite sure what the 'guest' part is all about yet, it could one of a number of things. It is very large, as big as a Souvenir Sheet, fully gummed. Londonbus1 |
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Post by de61 on Oct 3, 2019 4:33:32 GMT
Here are a couple more pages of NYWF labels. Some are repeats of previously posted labels, but it was just easier to scan the pages.
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Post by de61 on Jan 10, 2020 13:26:58 GMT
A couple of more pages of labels from the NYWF.
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Post by de61 on Jan 10, 2020 13:33:55 GMT
These are tourist labels trying to entice visitors to the World's Fair to stay in Nassau County on Long Island. The fairgrounds, now Corona Park in Queens, were actually much closer to Nassau County than to Manhattan. Being only 6 miles away, it would have made sense to stay in a Nassau County hotel than one in Manhattan.
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Post by de61 on Jan 10, 2020 13:55:44 GMT
A partial page of sepia "real photo" labels for the NYWF. These were sometimes used as cachets on fair-related covers.
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Post by daniel on Jul 1, 2020 18:21:38 GMT
Since this fair spanned two years, the Nicklin Company stamps were overprinted, in silver, for 1940. Here is the complete sheet accross 4 scans.  NY 3 by Daniel, on Flickr  NY 4 by Daniel, on Flickr  New York 1940 by Daniel, on Flickr  NY 2 by Daniel, on Flickr |
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