Hello all, the subject of cinderella's has been mentioned a few times on the forum. This first was issued by a convienience store here in Thailand called Seven-Eleven, you can use each stamp to get a 1 Baht (3usc) discount on your next purchase or you can save on a card and buy discounted items from 7-11 This is from "Big C" store, to be exchanged for the pictured item when you have saved sufficient stamps, I've seen Chef's knives, Pyrex dishes, Kilner jars etc. Next are the stamps issued by Tesco-Lotus a UK-Thai superstore with a brochure showing some of the items and their redemption values. I remember as a child collecting the UK "Green shield" stamps for later exchange for goods. see next post. James.
I remember as a child collecting the UK "Green shield" & Co-Op stamps for later exchange for goods. Regards, James.
Yes, I hadn't thought about savings stamps for quite some time. Here we had stores giving out green stamps, blue stamps and gold stamps as rewards for shopping with them. Too bad I don't have any of them any more.
Hello H, on UK tv many years ago they interviewed the man who introduced the "Green Shield" stamps and asked how he made so much money on them. He said he made no money on the stamps that were redeemed but became a millionaire on the stamps that people threw away. (they were worth 0.075d each) = (about 0.3 US cents each then) Possibly a lesson for us all. Regards, James.
Greetings James, I found an interesting link of someone's Cinderella display submitted to the Royal Philatelic Society London. I don't know if you have seen it or not, but it is quite interesting. http://cinderellastampclub.org.uk/images/cind-dis10.pdf
James: The Mickey Mouse cinderellas should be attractive to Disney topical collectors. Nice items! Don
I like cinderellas and they constitute a small collecting sub-field for me The field is too wide to collect seriously, but I buy them on cover when not priced too high. Here is one I picked up this year. The Propeller Club return address caught my attention as I originally thought it might be aviation related. It, however, is/was a group dedicated to promoting maritime commerce. I bought the cover anyway since it had the National Foreign Trade week label on the cover. Too bad the label is not tied! Don
My grandmother was a huge fan of the old savings stamps. Her favorite here in Colorado were Gold Bond.
Hello all, at this point I would like to Quote an older post by Molokai....... James. Thank you Molokai.
I've spent the last two days mounting some covers that have been back logged. Among them are some cinderellas on cover, and four of them bear poster stamps by one of my favorite cachet artists, John Coulthard. As background, it was very popular in the 1930s to collect postmarks from towns with unusual names. The Western Stamp Collector, a weekly stamp paper, in 1939, commissioned John Coulthard to design a series of 20 poster stamps featuring towns with unusual names. This series sold for .40 for a set of twenty or .10 for four of the labels. The series was popular and a second series was printed to bring the total up to forty stamps or labels. It is my observation that collectors bought these poster stamps, applied them to a cover, and mailed them to themselves. Several of these labels include in the design a small, spotted dog that was kind of a signature piece for Coulthard's art. The example below is number eleven and is typical of Coulthard's work. The addressee, I believe, enhanced the label somewhat by drawing a box around it. My goal is to acquire all forty of these poster stamps on cover. To date I have found about 17 of them and the search is ongoing. Does anyone else have any of these poster stamps on cover? Don
World War II overshadowed the 1940 centennial of the postage stamp, especially in the United States. For reasons not specifically named, the U.S. did not issue any stamps commemorating Great Britain's first postage stamp. Some local U.S. stamp clubs, however, issued their own. Here is a souvenir sheet issued by the New Jersey Philatelic Federation to honor the Penny Black. Also below is a cover reproducing the same souvenir sheet as a cachet. The cacheted cover, however is a "left over" in that it was used four years later in 1944. Don
