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Post by stamphinger on Apr 30, 2022 23:22:00 GMT
A couple recent additions to my Cinderellas on Cover collection, both "Remember Pearl Harbor" labels.
The first, based on the size and shape of the envelope, appears to be a non-philatelic cover posted May 28, 1943 in Philadelphia. It has an added collecting point for me in that it also includes the popular wartime slogan "Keep 'em Flying." The second, posted in Brooklyn, NY, Sept 2, 1945 looks like a philatelically originated post card sent to a family member in the US Army. While the sender, Dorothy, looks like a collector of some type, the motive for posting the card is not stated. What I believe it to be, however, is a philatelic item commemorating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 with the label and the signing of the document of Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, the posting date, and appropriately franked by a Franklin D. Roosevelt commemorative stamp. A bookends cover commemorating the beginning and the end of WW II in the Pacific. An interesting item, if I am correct.
The reverse of the card bears a photo of Wilson Dam in Alabama, part of the TVA project.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on May 5, 2022 23:13:24 GMT
A recently acquired cover with a Hells Gate, Washington, place name label from the Western Stamp Collector's set of odd place name labels done by philatelic artist John Coulthard in 1939. I collect these labels both off and on cover and acquired this one for it enhancement. Someone, probably the addressee, drew a frame for the label and added to the image by outlining in black the trident spears, the devil's horns and collar, plus adding a beard and mustache. There was a second enhanced label for sale on eBay at the same time, but I was outbid for that one.
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Post by daniel on Jun 13, 2022 2:13:23 GMT
A fine piece of mischief from New Zealand's Bruce Henderson. Fantippo is one of his many invented nations. Two very attractive and authentic-looking stamps and postmarked for Wofflik, Fantippo. Supposedly sent from their Ministry of Defense. Bill Hornadge of Dubbo was a genuine stamp dealer and producer of Cinderella stamps. Did this pass through the postal system? I doubt it š  |
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Post by daniel on Jun 18, 2022 3:11:46 GMT
Bouvier Papetier Swiss papermakers. This cover with an imprinted faux stamp celebrates Bouvier winning a gold medal. The 'postmark' is dated 10th December 1934.  |
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jun 18, 2022 11:15:16 GMT
1964 Barcelona's International Magics' Congress
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jun 18, 2022 16:30:51 GMT
August 2000, Pineda de mar (60 km NE of Barcelona), Philatelic Exhibition. Ruins of a Roman aqueduct.
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Post by jimwentzell on Jun 19, 2022 1:51:31 GMT
A recent acquisition from France:  A 1958 cover franked only with two Victims of War charity labels, 20 francs and 50 francs. No other legitimate postage stamps were used. Maybe it was a "favor cancelled", handed-back at the counter item, but it's possible the cover made it through the mail to its addressee in neighboring Germany, as the postmark shows. Maybe because the Cinderellas were sanctioned (?) by the PTT (postal authority in France)....either way I'm glad I spotted this and for less than two dollars it was well within my budget! Here is a close-up of the labels:   |
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Post by daniel on Jun 19, 2022 19:00:07 GMT
Australia's 150th Anniversary Philatelic Exhibition, Sydney 1938 A registered cover for this event with a special Registered label, an attractive cachet and a special Cinderella stamp. Also, a commemorative postage stamp with a George VI definitive, both cancelled with a special hexagonal postmark.   |
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Post by daniel on Jun 19, 2022 19:09:34 GMT
Another example of the Ocean Penny Post envelope, presumably a reprint, used by Robson Lowe, stamp dealer of Pall Mall, London. With a 1A stamp featuring their logo, a man holding a stamp with tweezers, and cancelled in red with a Pall Mall/1D Paid hand stamp. Addressed to Spencer Perlstein.  |
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Post by daniel on Jun 24, 2022 1:33:46 GMT
Three covers from the U.K. to Canada and the USA all with patriotic Cinderella labels. We believe in England There'll Always Be An England, World War II, censored mail Britain Delivers The Goods, World War II The last one being sent from the Bank of England, Basingstoke with a V for Victory cancel.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 4, 2022 20:49:39 GMT
A couple of new Cinderellas on Cover recently acquired on eBay.
The first has a large souvenir sheet commemorating the 57th annual convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans (SPA) tied to cover by the show cancel in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Society of Philatelic Americans dates back to 1918 when the Southern Philatelic Association became the Society of Philatelic Americans in an effort to become less of a regional organization and more of a national one. The SPA remained operational until the 1970s when it became embroiled in a financial scandal involving a shortfall in the revenues of its circuit sales. It disbanded shortly thereafter. It appears to have issued its last souvenir sheet for the joint BALPEX show in 1970.
 The second is a miscut postal card with an American Stamp Dealers Association advance label for its 1963 show tied to the card. The miscut card is not in itself a rare item, not even scarce according to a friend who collects postal cards, but it adds interest to the item. This is also a Herman Herst item on which he writes to a customer that he has been sending his catalogs for four years without a single bid. Herst hopes that the customer will bid on the offering of the most recent catalog. I'm still undecided if I should put this card in my Stamp Dealers cover collection or my Cinderellas on Cover collection.
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Post by daniel on Jul 6, 2022 2:28:50 GMT
A Cover for a Swiss Airshow or Meeting held in Geneva on 31st May and 1st June 1925 and sent to Basel. The Meeting purple handstamp has been used to cancel the 35c cinnamon and brown stamp (SG 319) from the 1923 Airmail set. A Geneva Airmail postmark for the 31st May 1925 is placed to the left. A Meeting Cinderella has been placed below and cancelled with a red rubber stamp. A Basel arrival postmark is shown on the reverse for 2nd June.   |
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Post by daniel on Jul 20, 2022 0:59:16 GMT
Grand Meeting D'Aviation Liege, 6th May 1934
A busy cover for this event, sent air mail from Liege to Berlin. Two Belgian stamps with the associated poster stamp. With additional marks in red for both Liege and Berlin (the smaller hand stamp). Berlin postmark on the reverse for the following day with another courier mark and an unidentified purple mark.
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 18, 2022 21:24:42 GMT
Two eBay purchases, Oklahoma Philatelic Society souvenir sheets tied to cover, for my OPS cinderella collection. The first, from the 9th annual OPS convention in 1941, features a photo of Chief Pawhuska for whom Pawhuska, Oklahoma is named. This is one of the more popular OPS souvenir sheets that, in this instance, is just barely tied to cover. It also has a clear convention cancellation with "OPS 9th Convention" nicely centered on the 1/2 cent Prexie. The second cover is from the OPS convention held in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, fifteen years later in 1956. Bartlesville was the site of Oklahoma's first commercial oil well and, for many years, the home of the Phillips 66 Corporation.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 19, 2022 12:02:01 GMT
Don ( stamphinger), I just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed seeing the Herst item in your previous post. I am currently reading his book āNassau Streetā, in which he tells how he became a dealer and some of his adventures and misadventures along the way. Itās a fun read. My copy is a signed one, and I can see right off that the signatures on our two items are very similar. |
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 19, 2022 15:10:31 GMT
Thank you, Beryllium Guy. Difficult to beat Herst as a story teller.
Don
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Post by daniel on Oct 11, 2022 14:59:39 GMT
A Cover sent from Watford to North Devon on the 29th December 1931. The Telephone/A Sound Investment slogan and a very attractive Disarmament Poster Stamp on the reverse.   |
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What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 18, 2022 12:48:14 GMT
stamphinger posted a cover with this Cinderella back in February of this year and daniel showed an array of these stamps produced in protest of a decision made by former President Clinton. The postage stamp on the cover is identified in Scott as 2891i and described as "Sailor kissing Nurse (News of victory hits home)." The stamp is from the World War II: Designs and Events of 1945 issuance released in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 2, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 23, 2022 21:59:35 GMT
I recently bought two Eaton's Fine Letter Papers cinderellas tied to cover with a machine cancel. They are obviously favor canceled hand backs. One, uses the Central Park scene stamp, the other, the Brooklyn Bridge stamp. The covers are a little strange in that both have a 3 cents Ohio 150th anniversary of statehood stamp, Sc. 1018 on the reverse canceled with a private "Reciprocal Cancellation" handstamp.
Shortly after their issue in 1940, the Post Office Department asked Eatons to withdraw the set of ten New York City scenes because they looked too much like real postage stamps and the agency was concerned that the public would use them on its correspondence. Probably, the collector who prepared these covers knew of the Post Office's request and was concerned that he/she might get in trouble for having the cinderellas canceled without paying 3 cents postage.
Strange usage, but they are going into my Cinderellas on Cover collection. Pure speculation, but my guess is the person who made them, possibly a postal employee with access to a cancelling machine, did a cover for all ten. Unlikely that I will find the other eight, but I will continue to watch for them.
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Post by daniel on Nov 3, 2022 23:11:15 GMT
A meter mark cover from the UK from 1961 with a "Join Today's Civil Defence" Cinderella stamp added. According to Wikipedia "The Civil Defence Corps (CDC) was a civilian volunteer organisation established in Great Britain in 1949 to mobilise and take local control of the affected area in the aftermath of a major national emergency, principally envisaged as being a Cold War nuclear attack." Below is amachine slogan cancel from 1958 reading "Civil Defence is Common Sense".  |
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Post by daniel on Nov 4, 2022 0:19:36 GMT
A cover sent from the UK to Canada marking the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine with an appropriate Ukrainian Cinderella from 1988.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 7, 2022 23:47:45 GMT
This item turned up as I was rummaging through an old shoe box of covers. It was posted during National Air Mail Week, but lacks a reference to that event. The aircraft cinderellas on cover look like they are from a larger sheet. The label in the lower right has an inscription,1936 R.O.C. N Y. I don't recognize those initials, but I am wondering if, perhaps, these they might have been produced and given away by one of the oil companies of the late 1930s, early 1940s? Does anyone recognize them?
Thanks.
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Post by daniel on Nov 8, 2022 1:38:40 GMT
This item turned up as I was rummaging through an old shoe box of covers. It was posted during National Air Mail Week, but lacks a reference to that event. The aircraft cinderellas on cover look like they are from a larger sheet. The label in the lower right has an inscription,1936 R.O.C. N Y. I don't recognize those initials, but I am wondering if, perhaps, these they might have been produced and given away by one of the oil companies of the late 1930s, early 1940s? Does anyone recognize them?
Thanks.
Don StampHinger There's a Hipstamp forum where these stamps are discussed. Of course, there are plenty of guesses until someone link's to the Poster Stamp Bulletin Vol. 1 No.4 for 1936 on Alphabetilately, see here . They are revealed as being from the Richfield Oil Corporation and relate to the Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen radio show for children see Wikipedia here although they seem to wrongly credit Skelly Oil. There was an album and 6 blocks of 4 stamps. Richfield ultimately became ARCO. |
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 8, 2022 15:40:25 GMT
Thanks, Daniel. Thorough explanation in the Poster Stamp Bulletin link. Just what I need for a write-up.
Don
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Post by daniel on Dec 1, 2022 1:29:36 GMT
Yet another 'Posted on Board HMS Victory' postcard. Of particular interest is the fact that it was sent from one known Cinderella maker/collector to another. It is sent to renowned US Cinderella Philatelist Jim Czyl, addressed as Prince James I on the front, by British Cinderella Philatelist Harry Rooke. He has attached one of his Cinderellas to the back and has duly signed his name beneath. The address label has been hand stamped 'Posted on Board'. It is disappointing that the postage stamp has not been postmarked.   |
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Post by daniel on Dec 5, 2022 4:39:01 GMT
Walt Disney's Flight of the White Stallions
My latest purchase. Although not a complete cover, I thought that this was the best place for it. There's enough remaining to make it interesting.
In 1945 Colonel Alois Podhajsky, director of The Spanish Riding School in Vienna sought to ensure the safety of the famous Lipizzaner stallions. He seeks out the help of General George S Patton who was in Austria at the time. Patton agrees if a performance is put on for him.
In 1963 Walt Disney makes a film called The Miracle of the White Stallions with Robert Taylor as Podhajsky and John Larch as Patton along with an all star cast.
The envelope, or what's left of it, is from (a part of) The Rank Organisation which was a major British film maker at the time. They must have been the UK distributor for the film which appears to have been renamed The Flight of the White Stallions. An appropriate Poster stamp adorns the envelope.
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Post by stamphinger on Jan 21, 2023 20:19:20 GMT
This is sort of a companion piece to the National Organization for Women cover with the "sticker-like" label that I posted in thestampforum.boards.net/thread/10146/poster-stamps-cinderellas-stickers recently. This cinderella also has "sticker-like" qualities, but because of its commercial origin and its circular shape most would call it a seal, a step up from a sticker. I found this one while searching for Iowa-related covers. It has a silver 'seal' commemorating the 25th anniversary of Chrysler cars tied by an Ottumwa, Iowa, cancel dial. Given that it dates back to 1949, it is most likely water activated rather than self adhesive. My guess is these items were intended as seals to be used on an envelope's reverse. I did not find any evidence Akerman Auto is still in business. Don StampHinger  |
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Jan 21, 2023 23:02:35 GMT
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Post by stamphinger on Jan 21, 2023 23:38:26 GMT
Thanks, Jeff. And snazzy Plymouth sedans and coupes for folks like me. I remember as a teenager back in Iowa, but not Ottumwa, the dealerships covered their showroom windows with paper until they had all their new models on display and then there would be a taking down of the paper and a 'grand showing' with considerable advertising hoopla.
I was a little young to be much excited about the 1949 models, but the 1954 to 1958 models, they were a different story, especially the 1954 Corvette and the 1955 Chevy Bel Aires. Oh, what beautiful cars those were and so far out of reach for a kid like me.
Don
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What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jan 26, 2023 21:42:33 GMT
 Cover celebrating Abe Lincoln's 200th Birthday. With TWO cinderellas, one a Springpatch local. |
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