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Post by stamphinger on Jun 23, 2021 19:54:41 GMT
The Eaton Paper Co's set of New York City scenes printed by the American Banknote Co and issued in 1940 were so stamp-like that the post office asked the company to stop distributing them for fear they would be mistaken by the general public for stamps. A few were used in lieu of postage, but not on a wide scale.
I found this example tied to cover in a lot of cinderellas an seals that I bought earlier this year. It is not a case of using the cinderella for postage, the 1 cent Prexie paid the postage for this post card, but it is still a good example of usage of a stamp from the Eaton set on cover.
The card is from a stamp dealer to a customer who apparently was offering stamps for sale to the dealer. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 3, 2021 14:51:09 GMT
Another item from the lot of cinderellas and seals, this a promotional cover for the 1940 movie Arizona starring Jean Arthur and William Holden. Arizona was the first movie filmed on location at Old Tucson, a movie set town about 10 miles west of Tucson, Ariaona. It was this movie that created the set which continued as a movie studio and tourist attraction up to 2020 when it closed because of the pandemic. Critics deemed Arizona, which I don't remember seeing, only a limited success.
I am showing this cover in this thread because of the label advertising the movie on the reverse of the envelope. It looks like a philatelic souvenir or hand back as it has never been opened.
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Post by hdm1950 on Jul 3, 2021 15:43:27 GMT
The Arizona cover is pretty cool Don stamphinger. I shared your comment and images with a friend who is a well known movie critic here in Canada. He loves it. I do see a similar one recently sold on eBay so they are out there. |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 3, 2021 16:36:04 GMT
Another item from the lot of cinderellas and seals, this a promotional cover for the 1940 movie Arizona starring Jean Arthur and William Holden. Arizona was the first movie filmed on location at Old Tucson, a movie set town about 10 miles west of Tucson, Arizona. It was this movie that created the set which continued as a movie studio and tourist attraction up to 2020 when it closed because of the pandemic. Critics deemed Arizona, which I don't remember seeing, only a limited success.
Very nice post, Don, thanks for that! I visited the Old Tucson former movie set several times over the years, as I used to travel to Tucson on business periodically. I am sorry to hear that it has now closed down due to the pandemic. One time my former company hosted an employee dinner there, and I remember it as being quite a nice event. They even had actors who staged an old-West style gun fight as part of the evening's program. I never realized that the set had been created for a particular movie, so thanks for that tidbit! |
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 5, 2021 22:18:05 GMT
While looking for another item in the shoe box collection, I found this. Since I have other Economist Stamp Co. covers in my Stamp Dealer covers collection, I think I must have bought this one for the cinderella on the reverse. It is an advance label urging dealers to attend an International Stamp Dealers Congress (at least that's how I translate it) in Zurich, Switzerland, September 4-6, 1920. The design seems strange if this was, indeed, a international stamp dealers meeting. The figures and background looks like combatants meeting on a battlefield. What war, WW I? Must have been a stamp dealer's left over item as the cover was posted October 18, 1920, well after the dates of the congress.
No success in finding any information about the congress online. Does anyone on the forum know anything about this stamp dealers congress and the cinderellas generated for it? Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 16, 2021 15:50:30 GMT
Cinderellas abound on this cover with two on the front and three Christmas seals on the reverse. Prominent on the front is the tied miniature War Poster No. 42 "Buy War Bonds" issued by the Tide Water Associated Oil Company from its 1943 series of 50 different posters. Other Cinderella threads have also included some of these posters, however, this is the first I have seen used on cover. Drummond"s Catalog of Philatelic Miscellany, Part Two of Three notes that the oil company also printed and distributed an album for these items that is infrequently seen for sale.
The War Poster is accompanied by a small seal publicizing Camp American Legion located in Wisconsin. The camp site is identified in the small print on the bottom of the seal, but partialy illegible because of fuzzy printing. On the reverse are three "Happy Postman" 1944 Christmas seals, one of my favorite designs. All-in-all, a collectable WW II patriotic cover featuring Cinderellas of the period.
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 19, 2021 20:41:24 GMT
Earlier this year I bought a box lot of seals and cinderellas in which was this cover, a tied label of Alfred E. Neuman, the fictional character popularized by Mad Magazine. This cover was a bonus not expected in the lot, but a couple of weeks later, from a different source, a related item came to me that was even a bigger surprise, a complete issue of Mad Magazine that included a pane of 63 Alfred E. Neuman stamps, plus 39 satirical commemorative-like cinderellas, and two album pages for mounting them. Here are some scans of this item, starting with the magazine cover. The "commemorative stamps:"
The pane of Alfred E. Neuman stamps:
The introductory page to the labels and album pages:
And the album pages for the commemorative labels:
All in all, an unusual item. Regrettably, it came with a couple of downsides. First, the magazine's pages are on inexpensive newsprint paper and slightly discolored from age causing the slight pinkishness in the scans. The magazine was printed in 1964 and is 57 years old. Secondly, and more serious, the two panes of "stamps" were inserted in the magazine back to back (gum side to gum side) and are stuck together. They would have to be soaked apart to be mounted on the album pages. Thirdly, any display of the "stamps" requires disassembling the magazine and removing the philatelically related pages.
Since I have no desire to keep this item intact for any future appreciation, I will probably soak the stamp pages, copy the album pages to better quality paper, and mount the stamps. The pane of Neuman stamps can remain intact.
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Post by daniel on Jul 19, 2021 20:55:23 GMT
stamphinger , loving the cover. I also have that issue of Mad Magazine and my 2 sheets were also stuck together. I just left them like that.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 19, 2021 21:00:53 GMT
Really spectacular post, Don ( stamphinger ).... thanks for sharing! I was an avid reader of Mad Magazine back in the 1960s, although I missed out on the 1964 stamp album edition. My time was 3-4 years after that, but I liked it very much. Not that it matters, but I really like your plan to soak the gum-to-gum stuck together sheet. I did something similar to that to salvage a sheet of France Cinderella labels a couple of years ago, and I noted that you have already seen that post. The advice I can offer is: Gum-to-gum adhesion will take a bit longer to soak apart than the usual gum-to-paper adhesion. I would suggest a bit warmer water than you might usually use, and even then, you may still need to use a pair of tongs to gently separate the two gummed surfaces. At least, that's how it worked out for me. I also used spade-tipped tongs, as I was concerned that my sharper pointed ones, which I normally prefer, might inadvertently poke a hole in the stamp pane, which is especially delicate when it is wet. It ended up working for me in this case, anyway. Whatever you decide, I wish you the best of luck with it, and look forward to seeing the results!  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 19, 2021 23:00:28 GMT
@berillium guy
Thanks for the good and helpful suggestions for soaking. I once soaked a page of the 1940 NYC World's Fair cinderellas that had been folded into blocks of eight and subsequently stuck together. Worked out okay, except I had a little trouble with perf separations, especially along the selvage. I had to use a couple of hinges on the reverse to strengthen the perforations.
I haven't decided to soak the two pages apart yet, but am leaning in that direction. I am not a comic book collector and I would like to be able to display the cinderellas easily, i.e. on album pages. It depends some on how well I will be able to copy the magazine album pages to a better quality paper stock. The staples binding the pages of the comic book were badly rusted and I have already pulled them.
I'll keep you posted on what course I take and how it works out.
Don
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 14, 2021 22:13:21 GMT
Here is a recent acquisition featuring Zonker Harris from the Doonsbury comic strip on a protest cinderella from 1990. Never a Doonsbury follower, so I don't remember seeing this item when it appeared, but then I wasn't collecting cinderellas in 1990 either. An internet search revealed that the protest was against a proposed rise in the first-class postal rate from 25 cents to 30 cents and that the comic strip of May 20th 1990 included these "protest stamps." The item on this cover apparently was cut from that strip. The cover is postmarked Dec 31, 1990 at Des Moines, Iowa.
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Post by daniel on Aug 15, 2021 20:21:39 GMT
Here is a recent acquisition featuring Zonker Harris from the Doonsbury comic strip on a protest cinderella from 1990. Never a Doonsbury follower, so I don't remember seeing this item when it appeared, but then I wasn't collecting cinderellas in 1990 either. An internet search revealed that the protest was against a proposed rise in the first-class postal rate from 25 cents to 30 cents and that the comic strip of May 20th 1990 included these "protest stamps." The item on this cover apparently was cut from that strip. The cover is postmarked Dec 31, 1990 at Des Moines, Iowa.
Don StampHinger Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau along with George Corsillo produced an A4 sized book of gummed and perforated Doonesbury stamps in 1990 called, appropriately enough, 'The 1990 Doonesbury Stamp Album' published by Penguin, USA. There were over 150 different stamps and a map. Also including, probably, the first Donald Trump parody stamps. |
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 16, 2021 16:38:39 GMT
Strange, I don't remember ever seeing those Doonesbury stamps as a book, singles, or on cover. Does anyone have one or more of them?
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Post by daniel on Aug 16, 2021 22:29:00 GMT
Don, stamphinger , here is the book, which I have (with some corner damage) plus a couple of stamp pages. To clarify,the stamps on your cover are not included in the book. It was published as a fund raiser for the 'Writer's Voices publishing program of Literacy Volunteers of New York City, Inc', ISBN 9780140128093. Copies are readily available online and if you shop around, you should be able to obtain a copy at a good price. it is an attractive publication and I imagine that anyone buying a copy would not want to remove the (Cinderella) stamps.    |
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 17, 2021 14:33:22 GMT
Thanks, daniel . An interesting item (the book or album). I'll have to look for one. Don
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 26, 2021 15:26:19 GMT
A label commemorating the 50th anniversary of the auto industry tied to a cover by a cancel from the convention station of the American Air Mail Society. The cover is very lightly addressed to an E. Williamson of Brookfield, Illinois. I doubt, though, that the cover went through the mails as Brookfield was large enough that a street address would have been needed for delivery. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by daniel on Oct 16, 2021 23:59:24 GMT
An interesting cover from Monaco to Duisburg in The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), in 1974. The stamp is a JFK commemorative stamp from 1964 with a nice Monaco cancellation. Since the country of destination has not been stated by the sender, a 'Rep. Fed./ de L'Alemagne' hand stamp has been added. The back of the cover shows that the sender was, actually, also from Duisburg, presumably on holiday or business in Monaco. He has added a large Cinderella Father Christmas stamp with the inscription 'Weihnachtspost!/ bitte erst/ am 24/. öffnen' which translates as 'Christmas mail, please do not open until the 24th'.
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 22, 2021 22:06:44 GMT
One for my Cinderellas on Cover Collection. A first-day cover from the 1978 American Dance Issue, Sc, 1751, with a corresponding "Square Dancing Is Fun" label tied by the cancel. The fine print under the cachet indicates that the addressee, Dick Needham, was owner of Mahdeen Cover Service and prepared this cover. It also tells us that the Dick & Ruth Needham were avid square dancers. The Scott catalog labels the stamp as Folk Dancing, but square dancing seems more appropriate.
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 24, 2021 22:16:39 GMT
I'm writing up some of my past purchases of Cinderellas on cover and came to this one, a free frank cover with a Disney Studios military unit insignia for the 4th Photographic Squadron tied by the cancel. It appears that this unit was stationed at Schilling Army Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas, after the end of WW II and was deactivated there in 1946.
As I am also a collector of aircraft on stamps and covers, this cinderella is of special interest for its image of a Douglas B-18 "Bolo" bomber at top center. The B-18 design is a descendant of the Douglas DC-2 and was used by the U.S. Army Air Corps in the 1930s and into the early years of WW II. By 1942, it was apparent that the airplane was obsolete and its use was shifted to training, anti-submarine patrol, and photo reconnaissance. An image of the B-18 Bolo is rarely used on stamps or covers.
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The Cinderella
An image of a B-18 in flight, from Wikipedia.
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Post by JeffS on Nov 25, 2021 0:52:39 GMT
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 6, 2021 17:45:07 GMT
A first-day cover to which someone added a For God and Country patriotic label. I don't remember seeing the label before, but the V for Victory design suggests it might be from the WW II period, 1939 -1945. The cinderella is the reason I have collected this cover.
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 20, 2021 16:57:44 GMT
I'm writing up some of my cinderellas on cover and especially like this one that is totally new to me. I've not seen it before on or off cover. Old Fort Nisqually celebrated its centennial in 1934 and the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma, Washington, was sponsoring its restoration. A nickel got the buyer one of these labels and, in this case, the purchaser put it on a cover with corresponding cachet and got it posted
Fort Nisqually was not a military fort, but rather the site of a Hudson Bay Company trading post. It originally was near what is now Dupont, Washington. The restored fort, however, is now a living history museum located in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington. Fort Nisqually has a U.S. Postal Service connection in that one of its blockhouses was featured on Sc. 1604, the 28 cents stamp in the American Series. The label tied to cover
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Post by cursus on Dec 25, 2021 13:03:23 GMT
December 1994, from Bramming (Denmark) to Barcelona.
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Post by cursus on Dec 26, 2021 6:10:52 GMT
Esbjerg, Denmark, February 1995. A 1968 (?) Xmas seal.
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Post by daniel on Feb 1, 2022 21:39:18 GMT
This may be cheating a little but it's a sweet idea. This large Berlin Airlift label from a Royal Mail book of stamps has been placed on an envelope containing a Christmas card and a hand drawn postmark has been applied. Probably from 1999.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 14, 2022 0:35:33 GMT
Three new to me cinderellas on cover. The first is a 1942 V for Victory label tied to cover, while censored, obviously a philatelic item. A second collecting point for me is the cover's addressee. U.S. Navy and patriotic cover collectors will recognize Walter Czubay as a prolific cachet designer of the 1930s and 1940s.
The second cover came to me surprisingly inexpensively. The seller failed to mention in the listing that there was a block of four "enlist in the U.S. Navy" cinderellas tied to the cover. The listing description identified it as a cover with a real estate corner card. The cancel is a little heavy, but this one makes up somewhat for those I paid too much for. The third features the "Atomic Bomb Ends WW II' cinderella designed and printed privately by Ron Kaplan in 1995 as a protest to the canceling of a USPS atomic bomb stamp in the 50th anniversary of WW II series. I have wanted one of these tied to cover for some time. The postmark on this one, unfortunately, is not clear, but I believe it was posted 1995, the 50th anniversary year in which the bomb was dropped. It will suffice for my collection until a better example surfaces.
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 22, 2022 1:00:00 GMT
A London, Ontario, Philatelic Society cover with souvenir sheet tied to cover commemorating a 1927 London, Canada, to London, England flight attempt that ended in the disappearance of the plane and pilots. A card describing the flight was enclosed and also may be seen below. I'm unsure about the philatelic status of the souvenir sheet, but I have seen it described on eBay as a "semi-official" sheet obviously printed for Lonpex 75 held in London, Ontario in 1967. An item for my Cinderellas on Cover collection.
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 27, 2022 17:11:44 GMT
An advertising label tied to a 1949 cover from Denison Greenhouses, Denison, Texas, promoting a gift of flowers for Mothers Day. The enclosed invoice, however, is a bill for flowers delivered to a local funeral. A check on the internet indicates that there is still a Denison Greenhouses in Denison, but it appears to be of a more recent start-up and now at a different address.
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 19, 2022 0:38:10 GMT
A frequently seen airmail cover commemorating the 1928 airmail rate decrease from 10 cents per 1/2 ounce to 5 cents per oz. I collected this cover, however, for the cinderella label on the reverse promoting the use of airmail.
Judging from the postmarks on the reverse accidentally tying the airmail label to cover, the cover appears to have been sent first to NYC and then to Boston, MA. While we don't know when it was delivered to the addressee, it is doubtful that airmail saved any delivery time in this instance. Don StampHnger
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Post by cursus on Apr 1, 2022 13:02:00 GMT
In 1990, after the moves of the three Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia) towards freedom from the Soviet Union. Moscow retailed by imposing a blockade of the resources transfered to the rebel nations. To help people suffering from this crisis, the Lithuanian governement, issued an stamp (actually, a charity cinderella) to be affixed on letters. Cover, issued on May 17th 1990 to commemorate the rebirth of the Lithuanian Republic, with the said cinderella, send to Romanas Podagelis, a Lithuanian philatelist, that was to become the first ambassador of his country in Rome. I know it because I exchanged covers with the son of that sir.
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