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Post by stamphinger on Aug 2, 2023 17:15:45 GMT
Not a cinderella in the strict sense, but shown here is a souvenir label cut from the cover page of a booklet of admission tickets to the 1934 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. That it is from a booklet is supported by the number at the center bottom of the item, A00000. The tickets within the booklet would have had a stub attached to their right side and consecutively numbered, A0001, 2, etc. This cover page has been trimmed on the left to remove the staples holding the booklet together and to make the label fit on the #6 envelope.
The 1933 exhibition was so successful that it was carried over for a second year in 1934. General admission was .50 for adults and .25 for children. An excellent overview of the exhibition with photographs of its many buildings and exhibitions may be seen at:
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 11, 2023 16:11:06 GMT
A couple of covers with American Philatelic Society souvenir sheet tied by convention station cancels. The first, the 1937 52nd annual convention held in Detroit, Michigan, and the second, the 1939 54th annual convention held in San Francisco. Note the similarity of the 1939 design to Sc. 567, the 20 cents definitive first issued in 1923.
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 25, 2023 0:10:39 GMT
A couple of WW II era covers with tied cinderellas. The first, a postal card, Sc.UX28, posted at a USAAF base and sent to the International Postal Slogan Society providing a change of address for a member. A patriotic label, the origin of which I don't know, is tied by a clear cancel from APO 807. APO 807 was in British Guiana and the reverse of the card informs the Slogan Society that the member is stationed at Atkinson Field, These U.S. pre-Pearl Harbor bases in the Caribbean were to monitor and guard the approaches to the Panama Canal and protect shipping in that region. The second item, a non philatelic cover, is a U. S. Army free frank from a soldier stationed in Nashville, TN, and franked with a United Service Organization Christmas label tied by a Nashville machine cancel dial. The blue background of the label obscures the date, but extra light and magnification shows it was canceled on Dec. 22, 1943. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 2, 2023 23:47:37 GMT
A #10 cover from the National Trust for Historic Preservation with three organizational labels affixed. The cover contained a solicitation for membership and offered a free National Trust tote bag if one signed on. I would prefer some postal markings/cancels on a cover like this, but unfortunately that is not how non-profit solicitation mailings work. Still a good item for me as I have not seen these labels before. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by REL1948 on Sept 6, 2023 15:57:12 GMT
I just noticed the stamps on this cover today. It' a Thank You note I received from philatelia a couple of weeks ago.
I love it, a proper cancellation on a Cinderella. It's an oddity these days to even see a cancellation on postage but they sure nailed this one!
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Post by JeffS on Sept 18, 2023 22:38:51 GMT
 Does this count as a Cinderella? Certainly a very early example dated 1888 (I think) on cover. |
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 19, 2023 16:21:00 GMT
JeffSIt would count as one in my collection. I would call it an advertising label. Nice 19th-century cover. Don
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Post by JeffS on Sept 20, 2023 8:58:53 GMT
Here is a reminder to exercise caution in purchasing Cinderella on cover or card. I found this item in a cheap box at Houston. What caught my eye is that the printing design and quality didn't appear to match the period of the 1-cent Franklin stamp. Closer examination reveals that an attempt was made to dress up this card by adding the postmarked Cinderella in alignment with an existing cancel on the card
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 20, 2023 16:38:30 GMT
A sharp eye for sure, well done Jeff. The perpetrator did a decent job of aligning the two cancels, but magnification shows an elliptical dial instead of a circle. This is still a collectible item as an example of someone's intent to deceive.
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Post by JeffS on Sept 22, 2023 23:47:33 GMT
Stamp collecting makes facts interesting:
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Post by JeffS on Sept 24, 2023 23:26:30 GMT
IOWA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, 1946 |
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Post by daniel on Sept 24, 2023 23:42:09 GMT
WIPA not WIPA WIPA, Wiener Internationale Postwertzeichen Ausstellung or Vienna International Philatelic Exhibition June 24th to July 9th 1933, produced many philatelic and Cinderella souvenirs. This cover produced for WIPA specifically for 3rd July has been used for a later event, Grand Flight Day 1st October 1933, held all over Austria. In this case the town of Laxenberg. A special postmark has been applied to the postage stamp and to a block of 4 WIPA 1933 Cinderellas, green version. I can't make out the address.  |
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Post by daniel on Sept 27, 2023 2:34:27 GMT
Cannes Film Festival 22nd September 1946 The International Festival of Film, as it was known up until 2003, had its origins in 1938 when France decided to set up a film festival to rival the Venice Film Festival. Cannes was selected as the location and the first Festival was set for 1939. The opening night gala took place on 31st August 1939 with a private showing of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The following day war was declared and that ws the end of that Festival. It was not revived until 1946, sometimes referred to as the second first Cannes Film Festival, from 20 September to 5 October 1946. On the 22nd of September an Air Day, Journée de l'Air, was held with covers being produced with Cinderella stamps. Here are two such covers for that day with different Cinderellas. The top cover has a green Festival stamp with a special handstamp applied. A special Cannes Par Avion label has been applied and the letter has been sent poste restante to Lisbon, Portugal but was not collected and duly returned. The second cover with a red and black on brown Cinderella has clearer postmarks but shows no address.  |
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Post by stanley64 on Sept 28, 2023 11:28:19 GMT
Here is a recent addition; a circulated cover from the philatelic exhibition - ‘POLARFILA 77’ held in Moscow from 14 - 22 May, 1977.
In addition to the 4 kopek commemorative stamp celebrating the centenary on the birth of Georgy Sedov, a Russian Arctic explorer (1877 - 1914), the cover also includes a label produced by the Moscow Branch of the U.S.S.R Geographical Society as part of the observance and is tied by a special purple handstamp with an Arctic motif reading ‘Philatelic Exhibition - POLARFILA 77’
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 29, 2023 18:03:12 GMT
Back in 1992, the U.S. Postal Service sponsored a vote by the American public to choose a stamp design for a "young" Elvis or and "old" Elvis Presley commemorative stamp. Young Elvis won, but some voters did not want either and a "Just say no to Elvis stamp" cinderella appeared. Londonbus1 posted this cinderella on July 22, 2014, see thestampforum.boards.net/thread/954/cinderellas-general?q=elvis and I recently found an example of it added to a hand-back, first-day cover for the Elvis stamp from the 1993 American Music Series booklet pane, Sc. 2731. This item is a first-day cancellation and the cover is headed for my Cinderellas on First-Day Covers Collection. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 3, 2023 17:52:44 GMT
This Lincoln item commemorating the Gettysburg Address looks like it may have been prepared for a thematic collection with its cachet of Lincoln and the speech, the coil stamp franking (Sc. 600) from the 1922-32 definitive issue, and the Gettysburg Address anniversary cinderella with its bullseye cancel. It is, instead, going into my Cinderella on Covers collection. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 3, 2023 23:39:47 GMT
Don, one could argue that yours is a thematic collection and, therefore, the cover's destiny has been fulfilled.
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 4, 2023 16:02:21 GMT
Steve:
You are absolutely correct! I've come to the conclusion that all of my cover collections are thematic in nature: variant airmail borders, cinderellas on first-day covers, cinderellas on cover, commercial usage first-days, advertising covers, charity seals on cover, aircraft on covers, named trains on covers, etc.
Truth be known, I'm a topical collector.
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Post by cursus on Oct 6, 2023 8:55:16 GMT
Olot (Catalonia) September 1959. Cover with a cinderella devoted to the first Catalan swimmer that crossed the English Channel, and that was from that town.
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 8, 2023 0:32:23 GMT
A block of six St. Anthony charity seals tied to cover with a cancel commemorating the 1979 visit of Pope John Paul II to the U.S. in 1979. Centered at the bottom of the label are the initials SAG which is an abbreviation for "St. Anthony Guide."
St. Anthony of Padua was a 13th-century Franciscan priest and is the patron saint to whom believers worldwide ask for help in finding lost articles, to assure safe travel, healing and help for those who have lost their way. These labels were to be used on letters to assure safe delivery. I watch for a cover that might have the initials or a similar seal on it, but todate have not found one beyond this philatelic example.
I note that this cover was postmarked 44 years ago today.
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 11, 2023 20:55:47 GMT
A first-day cover for the 8 cents stamp, Sc. 1437, commemorating the 450th anniversary of the founding of San Juan, Puerto Rico with a Sociedad Philatelica de Puerto Rico souvenir sheet tied by the cancel. It is my first, and to date, only cinderella from Puerto Rico.
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 27, 2023 18:46:18 GMT
A couple of unrelated recent acquisitions.
The first, a cover from the home office of the Falstaff Brewing Corp. in St. Louis, MO, that I collected for the die-cut foil advance label applied to the lower left corner of the envelope. The label advertises the availability of Falstaff beer at the Chuck Wagon on the Midway of the Dallas fair grounds during the Texas Centennial Exposition, June 6-November 29, 1936.
Falstaff had a number of regional breweries and in the mid-1960s was the third largest brewer in the U.S. It ceased brewing Falstaff beer in 2005.
The second cover includes a souvenir label commemorating the centennial of Olathe, Kansas, now a suburb of the Kansas City metro area. For years Olathe was home to a nearby Naval Air Station that was deactivated in 1996 and is now the New Century Air Center. The Olathe Philatelic Club sponsored the cover and most likely applied the "Be a Naval Aviator" hand-stamped cachet. I speculate that the signatures are from officers of the stamp club. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 11, 2023 18:08:24 GMT
This cover has what looks like an TWA airmail label depicting a Lockheed Constellation and commemorating the 40th anniversary of Earle Ovington's first regularly scheduled airmail flight on September 23, 1911, tied by a 9/23/1951 bullseye machine cancel from the NYC Airmail Facility.
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 27, 2023 16:31:18 GMT
Two recent acquisitions.
The first a 1930 cinderella commemorating the APS annual convention at the National Philatelic Exhibition held in Boston, MA. The stamp includes an image of the ship Arebella on the left and the Massachusetts state house on the right. The labels were issued in red, green, blue, and purple. This example is the green.
The second cover is a contemporary first-day cover for Sc. 2697i, from the 1992 pane of eight stamps commemorating the U.S. in WW II. The cinderellas includes two 1992 Christmas seals from the American Lung Association and a larger label commemorating the 2nd U.S. Army. The 2nd Army seal looks like it dates from the WW II period.
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An addendum to the 2nd Army label. It is from an issue entitled Spirit of '42 consisting of 48 poster stamps depicting insignia of U.S. military units. These poster stamps were distributed only at participating U.S. movie theater box offices in 1942 at the rate of two per week. Supposedly, none were sold. Obaining a full set today must be difficult.
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 29, 2023 18:24:50 GMT
Here is one of those National Poster Stamp Society (Chicago, IL), souvenir sheets from the 1940s posted at the World's Fair Station, NYC and commissioned by Fred. H. Dietz, tied to an embossed stamped envelope. This sheet is new to me, I had not seen it before.
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Post by rod222 on Nov 29, 2023 21:00:43 GMT
Here is one of those National Poster Stamp Society (Chicago, IL), souvenir sheets from the 1940s posted at the World's Fair Station, NYC and commissioned by Fred. H. Dietz, tied to an embossed stamped envelope. This sheet is new to me, I had not seen it before.
Don StampHinger Lovely cover, Don. I wonder, was there any affiliation, to the Australian shores?   |
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 29, 2023 21:54:23 GMT
None that I know of. I am only familiar with the company based in Chicago. Don
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Post by JeffS on Feb 6, 2024 1:24:19 GMT
A couple US Cinderellas on cover recently added to stock. |
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Post by JeffS on Feb 12, 2024 20:52:38 GMT
PIANO TRADE OF AMERICA PROSPERITY CONVENTION NEW YORK JUNE 19TH 24TH BEST EVER
Tied to back of cover by machine cancel ink.
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 23, 2024 22:17:45 GMT
A Ninth Annual Pacific International Philatelic Exhibition and Congress advance label on a postal card, Sc. UC28 used as a meeting notice for the Salem Stamp Society's Willamette Valley Stampede.
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