Poster stamps and Advertising Labels

Wow! Steve.
I am about to mount mine,  so I searched "The Stamp Forum"
Glad I did............

I'm sure everyone has used Faber pencils at some point in their careers. Here's a couple of nice Faber posterstamps I picked up yesterday.

The first label advertised "canned cream" - I don't think I can buy such a thing at my local supermarket (it's not the same as evaporated or condensed milk), apparently the Newfoundlanders eat up everybody's share! The second one is for a liquid shortening used for baking. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any information on Grana at the German Society for Fat Science (or however they choose to translate it, maybe they have a nicer sounding name for it in English ...), nor do I see anything online except for a bunch of poster stamps!

Ryan

Finally got my scanner back in order.
Here's a couple more of those cute little German chefs in their slippers (what's up with that?)

Faber-Castell is a company of long, long standing (originates in 1761) from the Nuremberg region in Bavaria.  When I was in high school, I was an exchange student in Nuremberg so I got to learn a bit about the local history.  One of the area day trips I took was to the "Pencil Castle", a ritzy Art Nouveau mansion built early in the 20th century by the Faber-Castell family.

Franken Magazin article on the Pencil Castle (Franconia Magazine, in German but with some pictures - Franconia is the relevant region of Bavaria)

Anyway, what got me on that topic was the name "Johann Faber" - I remembered something different as the pencil guy's name, so I snooped online.  It turns out the Johann Faber on your poster stamps was a brother who founded his own pencil company back in 1879 and started a Brazilian subsidiary - those companies were eventually bought out by Faber-Castell in 1932.  (The "Castell" part of the name came from a Count who married into the family and ended up in charge.)  The company now has 7000 employees worldwide - who knew the pencil industry could be so big?  (They sell pens and other stuff too now, of course.)  The history of the company is quite interesting.  Way back in the day they had exclusive rights to a graphite mine in Siberia for the lead and the wood for the pencils came from Florida.  I'm guessing they didn't build 5-cent pencils ....

And further to the Nuremberg / pencil connection, another massive brand, Staedtler, is also from Nuremberg.  They have had pencil makers in the family since 1662!

Ryan

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The Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel label shown further up the thread (sorry I clagged up the 'quote' function), was also used to adorn the inside lid of complimentary boxes of hotel chocolates. 

Jad, make sure you keep the one that says lotion near your beach attire. 

I have seen the odd lot of these over the years going for high prices so when I saw these at a low starting bid, I joined in......and won.
But I know very little about them so if anyone has any ideas, do let me know.










Londonbus1......gotta luv Snow White !!

I have not been able to date these yet but most likely the early part of the 20th Century.
The set is much larger and I am looking out for them as I find them hugely attractive. The Stamps show the Male and Female costumes of the countries Franz Kathreiner Import from, especially the Oriental types.

Nice series, possibly from a Se-tenant sheet ? Would also go well in a collection of Advertising stamps with the topic of the German City of Munich. There are literally hundreds !! (Maybe thousands)

Sitges (40 km SW of Barcelona) is a lovely sea-side resort, dating from Roman times. This poster stamp, was issued by 1950.

Poster stamps issued by LNER/Scarborough Corporation to encourage holidaymakers to visit their town.The slogan Meet the Sun was introduced by LNER in 1939 to promote travel to the east coast.
I used to live in Birmingham and most summer holidays were spent in Devon or Cornwall.

Anglobob