Propaganda and Patriotic Cinderellas.

Thanks - I love the design, too.  I only wish it was produced with a tighter litho screen.  The dot pattern is, unfortunately, similar to that used in comic books.  The artists are listed near the lower right side, but the printing isn't clear enough to make them out.  I purchased this from a local stamp dealer in the 1990s.

Some information just come to hand on this label.

Arabian political paraphilately: 3-color illustrated label for Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria), depicting the flags of Syria, Lebanon and the Pan-Arab flag (either of the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party or the Palestine Liberation Organization) + images of the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre (left) & Moslem Dome of the Rock ('Qubbat al-Sakhrah') shrine (right) - both in Jerusalem; the Arabic legend above reads "The day of Lebanon and Syria", and below the images "The red bleeding freedom has a door that is knocking from each wounded hand". Although the Syrian flag is upside-down, the version depicted here would date the label to either the 1950's (up to 1958) or 1961-64 (the Syrian flag changed in 1963 and the PLO adopted its flag in 1964). The label refers to the national holiday commemorating the Syrian and Lebanese Moslem and Christian nationalists executed in Damascus and Beirut on May 6, 1916 by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman Governor of "Greater Syria" (which in that time included the area of Palestine/Holyland). 




Here is the same label but in red only. Whether it is a variety or just a copy it is hard to tell but I'll go with the latter for now.

In time for Memorial Day, following is a sheet of 20 stamps, circa 1935, for the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Buddy Poppy campaign.




History of the Buddy Poppy from the VFW website:

"Before Memorial Day in 1922, we conducted our first poppy distribution, becoming the first veterans' organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The poppy soon was adopted as the official memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, as it remains today.

During our 1923 encampment, we decided that VFW "Buddy"® Poppies would be assembled by disabled and needy veterans who would be paid for their work to provide them with financial assistance. The next year, disabled veterans at the Buddy Poppy factory in Pittsburgh assembled VFW Buddy Poppies. The designation "Buddy Poppy" was adopted at that time.

In February 1924, we registered the name Buddy Poppy with the U.S. Patent Office. A certificate was issued on May 20, 1924, granting our organization all trademark rights in the name of Buddy under the classification of artificial flowers. We've made that trademark a guarantee that all poppies bearing that name and the VFW label are genuine products of the work of disabled and needy veterans. No other organization, firm or individual can legally use the name Buddy Poppy.

Today, our Buddy Poppies are still assembled by disabled and needy veterans in VA Hospitals.

The VFW Buddy Poppy program provides compensation to the veterans who assemble the poppies, provides financial assistance in maintaining state and national veterans' rehabilitation and service programs and partially supports the VFW National Home For Children."

Thanks daniel ,interesting and useful article page 126

The artist Rockwell Kent is known to Christmas Seal collectors as the designer of the 1939 Seal. He also designed several other Cinderella stamps during his long and productive life. Among the rarest is this poster stamp for the Harry Bridges Defense Fund. Harry Bridges was the head of the International Longshoreman's and Warehouse Union for many years. He was also a Communist and not an American citizen. The United States government attempted to deport him, and the union created a defense fund for him. Kent designed a poster, that was adopted for this stamp. A checklist by the Kent scholar Robert Rightmire of Kent's Cinderella stamp designs, including those that were not produced, has been published exclusively on The Rockwell Kent Forum. www.rockwellkent.us.

Here is the stamp.


Here is the poster.


Here is the stamp in a longshoreman's dues book.

British Sailors' Society, Scottish Branch Home Front World War II gummed label for recycling envelopes. With a very nice imprinted V for victory Cinderella.


Scan_20201209 (2) by Daniel, on Flickr

A good lot of US Propaganda and Patriotic Cinderellas. Some pro and some anti war. Mainly WWII.


Scan_20210201 by Daniel, on Flickr

  Smiling at predictive spelling Michael 

  presumably Arguello was INTERRED and Khaled was INTERNED , we are a liberal society here and as far as I know, have stopped burying folks alive !

By coincidence, I can now write 'interred' !! (vikingeck) 

Seriously, it is a sad and solemn way to urge the population to 'stop buying German Goods' one of many such propaganda issues during the world wars.
A grieving widow dressed in black, her Soldiers' hat sitting on the cross. Lots of atmosphere.

I have seen these WWII-era German-produced propaganda postcards before.  I may have one somewhere (uncancelled) as I think I picked one up years ago, for maybe five bucks or so.

The one above, however, has apparently been mailed from Berlin, evidenced by the machine cancel dated 11 June 1940.  The undenominated "indicia" portrays British Prime Minister Winston Churchill chomping a cigar.  There is a smashed warship on his head.  Inside the simulated perforations where the face value might appear it reads "Value Not one penny!"


 
It is available on eBay (item #404056288147) and the auction ends early Monday Dec. 26 2022 if anyone wants to join in the bidding.  It's presently at US$12.50 just a bit rich for my taste.  Intriguing nonetheless!!!

With five days to go, it may go for quite a bit more.  Anyone care to speculate what the ending sale price will be?  I will post the result next week.