Collecting Cinderella Poster Baseball Stamps.....
 

Anyone else collect Cinderella Poster stamps? Some of them are quite artistic. And a few blurbs from Wiki on them...

The poster stamp was an advertising label, a little larger than most postage stamps, that originated in the mid-19th century and quickly became a collecting craze, growing in popularity up until World War One and then declining by World War Two until they are now almost forgotten except by collectors of cinderella stamps.

The unofficial nature of poster stamps has led to debate about exactly what is and is not a poster stamp. One definition has been "labels without postage stamp values, not good for postal service; advertising labels or charity labels.

The first poster stamps were inspired by the invention of the postage stamp. A perforated label was produced in England in 1864 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and in Italy a label was produced in 1860 to celebrate Garibaldi's expedition to Sicily during the campaign to unify Italy.[2] Commercial interests soon realised the publicity potential of the stamps and they were quickly adopted for the promotion of every type of product and cause. Poster stamps were also widely used by both sides during World War One as political propaganda.

As late as the 1930s they were still being used to promote political and other causes. In 1937 Irene Harand published a series of anti-Nazi poster stamps portraying the contributions made by Jews to civilisation over the centuries,[3] and adhesive labels of all kinds that are not postage stamps continue to be produced today to promote particular causes or events.

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Well, I guess there won't be much competition for them :).

I collect them when I can find them. I have the common generic baseball ones, and Marquard, but no others (would love to find a Cobb in a scrapbook).

I have shown these before (and Leon I think you have a baseball one), but here are my basketball real photo examples.

Alan

I have a few, but no sports related ones. There's a club for people who only collect poster stamps. Some of them are a bit expensive even if most aren't.

There was a Duke Kahanamoku stamp advertising some exhibition on Ebay recently that was in pretty bad shape a big tear on the left side. I was amazed what it went for.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1914-Poster-...p2047675.l2557

Steve B

Anything vintage of the Duke sells well; if I'd seen it I'd have been in the running for it.

Neat stuff; I had no idea that that sort of collectible had a formal name. I guess this item of HOFer Kid Lewis qualifies:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...is%20Stamp.JPG

I like Steve have one pretty with great artwork Leon are all those yours there gorgeous

The ones in my posts are mine....i think they are fun to collect AND they are usually inexpensive. And the return of my coins....

Last Summer I attended an auction and picked up three albums that were full of poster stamps...only two baseball stamps out of probably 500-600 total stamps though.

The vast majority of stamps aren't baseball, from what I have seen too. The 1915 Postaco series made cool baseball players and other things, such as this Kangaroo stamp. This is a printing process series of them....