Great Britain: Cinderellas

rod222 I hadn't thought about that song, Hitchin' a Ride, in nearly 50 years !

rex, in The Cinderella Philatelist for April 2003, it is identified as being used by DFS, a national furniture company in an advertising campaign. Elsewhere, on another forum, it is suggested that the design came from a GB booklet pane. I have not been able to verify that.

Daniel

Thank you Daniel as always for your kind information.

daniel
Wow!   lovely stuff Daniel.

I have discovered that these were produced by Inter-Art Company of Red Lion Square, London. They were active between 1909 and 1931. These particular stamps, described as Patriotic Poster Stamps, came with this envelope:

Serendipity !
I have had a singleton image from 2011  unidentified.......finally solved 

but, also with some distress, reading "Thomas Hardy" in your preamble,  only yesterday I was reading Hardy's witness to the last woman hanged in England.  Terrible.

But back to Dickens,
(I attempted to read all of Dickens during my tour of Vietnam (22yo) but only managed 4 )



1852
excerpt from "The Great Gum Secret"

HOUSEHOLD WORDS.
A WEEKLY JOURNAL,
CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS.
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1852.
[PRICE 2d.

POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDERS.

IN 1792. when the true British sailor was
stoutly preparing to defy the French in
various parts of the globe at thirty shillings
a-mouth ; and when British military valour
was fighting Tippoo Saib, in India, at a shilling
a-day ; it was felt as a great hardship, that the
affluent warriors of both services could not
transmit, safely and speedily, to their sweet-
hearts and wives, even from one part of the
United Kingdom to another, their surplus
capital. The Government seeing the danger
of allowing the savings of its servants to burn
holes in their pockets was good enough to
concoct a snug little "job," by means of
which such pocket-conflagrations might be
extinguished. The monopoly of transmitting
money from one place to another was conceded
to three gentlemen, in connection with the
Post-office. Their terms were eight-pence
for every pound ; but, if the sum exceeded
two pounds, a stamp-duty of one shilling was
levied by Government, in addition. Five
guineas was the highest amount which could
be thus remitted ; and the charge for that sum
was four shillings and sixpence, or nearly
five per cent., besides the price of the postage
of the letter which contained the advice
perhaps a shilling more.

Dickens visit to Perkins Bacon...................





Charles Dickens
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For ten hours a day, six days a week, he stuck labels on jars of shoe polish at Warren's Boot Blacking Factory in London.
On Sunday he was visiting his father, imprisoned because of his debts, in Marshalsea prison.
Charles Dickens, 12 years old, gave him part of the six shillings he earned a week and the rest he gave to Mrs. Roylance,
the owner of the house where the boy stayed alone, without his family.

In those hard years of his childhood, Charles Dickens forged some of his qualities:
his amazing capacity for work, his perseverance, his keen observation skills and his determination to get ahead.
"May I turn out to be the hero of my own life." It is one of his famous phrases. He made many statements about
how important it was for him to work hard. He always did it: in that factory, in the newspapers, in his novels, giving lectures,
interpreting his works in public theatrical readings that required an enormous effort; in whatever it was.
He had set out to be the hero of his own life and he did not give up until he achieved it.

Rowland School stamps were a product of Philip & Tacey, school and education suppliers who started way back in 1829, and as Philip & Tacey since 1902. They ceased trading in November 2022.

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A Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd, Cutlery, Razor and Blade Manufacturers invoice for Camper Knives dated 1st March 1952. With a nice BIF (British Industries Fair) May 5-16, Earls Court and Olympia poster stamp

Two Cinderellas with some age. The first is for the Combined Theatrical Charities Appeal from 1935. This charitable organisation still exists today.
The second stamp advertises Blackpool, date unknown but could be a hundred years old.

These fascinate me,  Blackpool, Ozone breezes ?
I wonder what is shown, like people sitting on a slant, from boardwalk to the beach, being served by nurses?

Ozone Breezes, whilst not an oxymoron, the sense seems to contradict itself ? is not Ozone a pollutant?
or perhaps something else is meant by the phrase. "salty air" perhaps?

aha, found the steps at Blackpool 1958  probably what was meant to capture



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michael
Lovely work Michael.

As a Naval apprentice, in Sydney Australia, we would STARCH our dress shirts, so we could have sharp creases
down the breast pockets, either side of our chests.

Washing, ironing, sewing  (our sewing kits were fondly referred to as "Housewives" )
all this at 16 years of age.
We would wash clothes in galvanised rubbish bins, with a conical hand plunger.

That regime was called "Dhobi" taken from the Indian word for washing.

On the right, there are 2 x WWI Anti-German Propaganda stamps. Neat that they have printing on the back.
Can anyone identify the big green one for me?