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Back of last stamp bottom row, second page.
A few more pages of labels.
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Those are amazing labels. Thanks for posting.
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Great labels vinman. I think that cinderellas have come a long way in popularity among collectors over the past 20 + years.
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Freaking Awesome!!!!!
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Great set!
Not to be too au courant, but I notice that all of the women are victims & victims-to-be ... not one Rosie The Riveter "I am going to work so he can go to war" in the lot, let alone Women's Army Corps et al.
Also missing are what we think of today as popular wartime slogans ("Loose Lips Sink Ships"), but Artists For Victory Inc may have required totally original work for this series.
Cheers,
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A few more to be getting on with. It's been a while so let's do some resuscitating !!!
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The 'Stamp of Honour' shown in my previous post tells an interesting story, one of many no doubt.
So I'll post it again !!
STAMP OF HONOUR !
THE HENDON FOUR FIGHTER FUND, 1940.
A rather large and very unusual Cinderella landed on my desk yesterday. It is a fund-raising stamp that helped to buy 4 spitfire fighter planes for use in the Battle of Britain.
Here is a nice story about it from OtterPatrol at BBC's WW2 People's War website from an archived posting. It concerns a certain civilian named Maurice Rowlandson.
"I was just 16 years of age when the Borough of Hendon established its 'Four Fighter Fund'. It aimed at raising funds to buy four Spitfire Fighters to help in the Battle of Britain. Many and varied efforts were made to raise the money needed. One of these was a 'charity shop' opened by a Mrs Forrester - a classic 'do-gooder'! When the shop opened I volunteered my services to Mrs Forrester, and throughout the fund-raising effort (which, ultimately, was successful) I spent every free moment working in the shop - or running errands for Mrs Forrester. It was totally asorbing and I involved my boy scout troop in the efforts.
When the fund concluded and we were able to present a cheque to the Ministry of Defence for the four fighters, the local Mayor gave a reception for all of those involved in the effort. Mrs Forrester was kind enough to say that the success of the shop at Mill Hill was, in a large measure, due to the commitment that I had put in. Unbeknown to me, the Mayor had advance warning of that and he presented me with a commemorative plaque recalling the part I had played in buying the four fighters. It was a significant moment in my life, and one to which I always look back to with happy memories."
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A promotional album from the WW II era with 20 poster stamps of WW II aviation heroes distributed by the Sinclair Oil Company as a premium for buying its gasoline. The left hand page relates the exploits of Maj. Richard Bong who flew a Lockheed P-38 Lightning while the right hand page tells about the actions of Maj. Gregory Boyington flying a Change-Vought F4U Corsair.
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The album:
Two pages inside the album
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Lovely stamp and great story LB1. 
Hendon is still strongly associated with the RAF with RAF Museum London located on the site of the old RAF Hendon airfield.
The museum has an excellent collection of planes and is free to visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_ ...
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In 1942, Robert Lash Robbins in cooperation with Hearst Publications and the Detroit Times produced a series of 150 colorful poster stamps depicting the insignia of most of the then-active combat units of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Corps. The stamps are both copyrighted and registered with the US Patent Office and were produced in a limited issue of just 350,000. Each poster stamp measures 1.5" x 2" and they are printed in bright colors with each unit insignia accurately reproduced. They also have a production number in the lower right corner
During this time, every one wanted to support the war effort. The Disney Studios made their greatest contribution in what became a very well known morale booster and that were the insignias designed by Disney artists. Starting with the Mosquito Fleet, the insignias personalized military units allowing them to be recognized by other units, and symbolize a group characteristic.
Throughout the war Disney Studios created around 1,200 unique insignias for training schools, bombing squadrons, naval vessels, women’s units, and chaplains’ corps. They were so popular that the Los Angeles Examiner began reproducing the insignias as poster stamps in February of 1942, then created educational albums for children, and a second album was released in March of that year. The Examiner planned to run more than 250 stamps in color for the public to collect, the vast majority being Disney characters.
As far as I can determine there have been 5 volumes published depicting the stamps and their background
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I collect cinderellas on cover and acquired these three covers bearing examples of the WW II military insignia labels commented upon by mbo above. The first is number 12 and included in mob's post and inscribed at the bottom as copyrighted by Robert Lash Robbins. The second is numbered, but no copyright statement, and the third has neither number or copyright statement. The third may be a Disney label, but Disney is generally very protective of its graphic art and I would be surprised if its labels did not include a copyright statement.
mbo, do you have examples of the Disney labels to post?
Thanks.
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A few more to add to the collection of this thread. Some really nice items posted....keep 'em coming !!
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Don,
Unfortunately I do not have any Disney labels that I can post. I obtained the labels that I have in a bulk lot.
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Thanks, Mel, for your reply. Maybe someone else has some of the Disney military insignia poster stamps.
Below are a couple more covers with tied WW II cinderellas. The first is the second Illinois Bataan Relief poster stamp that Londonbus posted. I don't have an example of the first.
The second cover features a WW II propaganda poster stamp distributed by the Tidewater Oil Co. I believe the company reproduced 50 of these posters and gave them away to customers. I don't see them on cover frequently, probably because of their larger size.
The small seal on the second cover is an American Legion item promoting Camp American Legion somewhere in Wisconsin. The small print is fuzzy and I can't make out the location in Wisconsin.
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Two American Philatelic Society advance labels for its 1942 annual convention. There are two varieties of this label. The first (top) has "Keep 'em Flying" in the blue star field while the second (bottom) has "Buy War Bonds and Stamps." The Fields/Picklo cinderella listing indicates there is a third style with no slogan in the star field, but I have never seen an example. Does anyone have, or has anyone seen such a third variety?
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I also have the two "Keep 'Em Flying" labels and have been looking for the third variety for years and have never found one. I'm not sure it even exists but as you indicated, it is mentioned.
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Here's one from Britain !! 
Great Britain-the Shield
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And another from Britain.
A 1940's propaganda type issue, probably by Polystamps of London because of the similarity of printing to other known Poster stamps.
These are for the Royal Navy and the sheets of blue and red are a mix of these se-tenant blocks and blocks of British War Planes.
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Two more WW II posters reproduced by the Tidewater Oil Company and distributed to its customers. These two, U.S. Marine Corps recruitment posters.
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I have a few of these Poster types. Very atmospheric.
More to come......
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A WW II label on cover urging housewives to save excess cooking fat for conversion to glycerin to make explosives. Early in WW II the Office of Price Administration created an American Fat Salvage Committee to urge American homemakers to save fats from cooking. While the alleged purpose was for the manufacture of explosives, in reality, the program was more for the soap industry that also used large amounts of glycerin to manufacture its products. Making munitions, however, seemed more patriotic than making soap. Contributors of cooking fat received about 4 cents per pounds, plus two ration coupons for the purchase of lard or butter.
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Hardly a poster stamp, this one, but definitely from the WW II era with a popular slogan of the time. The Poster Stamp Bulletin of December 1941 announced that this label and four others of different design were available in a set of five for .05 cents. These labels are frequently seen on covers posted during WW II years. The aircraft image looks like a Bell P-39 Airacobra produced between 1940-1944, but not used extensively by the United States. Most were given to England and Russia under the lend-lease program.
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This cover shows a similar design to DonSellos' label but is applied inked and not a stamp. There is a star at the bottom in place of the words "Be A U.S. Army Aviation Cadet". There are two strikes, one blue and the other red.
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That meat sticker is interesting. Was it part of a set or just a single design?
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Hi Sally,
I did an online search and I only found some two page ads by The Swift and Company. The ads were different but the label was the same in each. My guess is that it might just be one from the company.
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That’s really interesting. Thanks for searching for more information- never knew those types of labels existed
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Here are some US WW II patriotic labels that just arrived in the mail today. They are numbered 1-50, series one. Not sure if there are any more sets in the series. It appears there is a different artist's work on each stamp. The artist's information is printed on the back of the stamps on top of the glue so a lot of these are missing some of the information due to the glue being disturbed. I will post a scan of the back of one of the stamps to give an idea of what I'm talking about. I am also posting some scans of other US WW II patriotic labels.
Back of last stamp bottom row, second page.
A few more pages of labels.
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Those are amazing labels. Thanks for posting.
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Great labels vinman. I think that cinderellas have come a long way in popularity among collectors over the past 20 + years.
Chimo
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Freaking Awesome!!!!!
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Great set!
Not to be too au courant, but I notice that all of the women are victims & victims-to-be ... not one Rosie The Riveter "I am going to work so he can go to war" in the lot, let alone Women's Army Corps et al.
Also missing are what we think of today as popular wartime slogans ("Loose Lips Sink Ships"), but Artists For Victory Inc may have required totally original work for this series.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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A few more to be getting on with. It's been a while so let's do some resuscitating !!!
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The 'Stamp of Honour' shown in my previous post tells an interesting story, one of many no doubt.
So I'll post it again !!
STAMP OF HONOUR !
THE HENDON FOUR FIGHTER FUND, 1940.
A rather large and very unusual Cinderella landed on my desk yesterday. It is a fund-raising stamp that helped to buy 4 spitfire fighter planes for use in the Battle of Britain.
Here is a nice story about it from OtterPatrol at BBC's WW2 People's War website from an archived posting. It concerns a certain civilian named Maurice Rowlandson.
"I was just 16 years of age when the Borough of Hendon established its 'Four Fighter Fund'. It aimed at raising funds to buy four Spitfire Fighters to help in the Battle of Britain. Many and varied efforts were made to raise the money needed. One of these was a 'charity shop' opened by a Mrs Forrester - a classic 'do-gooder'! When the shop opened I volunteered my services to Mrs Forrester, and throughout the fund-raising effort (which, ultimately, was successful) I spent every free moment working in the shop - or running errands for Mrs Forrester. It was totally asorbing and I involved my boy scout troop in the efforts.
When the fund concluded and we were able to present a cheque to the Ministry of Defence for the four fighters, the local Mayor gave a reception for all of those involved in the effort. Mrs Forrester was kind enough to say that the success of the shop at Mill Hill was, in a large measure, due to the commitment that I had put in. Unbeknown to me, the Mayor had advance warning of that and he presented me with a commemorative plaque recalling the part I had played in buying the four fighters. It was a significant moment in my life, and one to which I always look back to with happy memories."
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A promotional album from the WW II era with 20 poster stamps of WW II aviation heroes distributed by the Sinclair Oil Company as a premium for buying its gasoline. The left hand page relates the exploits of Maj. Richard Bong who flew a Lockheed P-38 Lightning while the right hand page tells about the actions of Maj. Gregory Boyington flying a Change-Vought F4U Corsair.
DonSellos
The album:
Two pages inside the album
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Lovely stamp and great story LB1.
Hendon is still strongly associated with the RAF with RAF Museum London located on the site of the old RAF Hendon airfield.
The museum has an excellent collection of planes and is free to visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_ ...
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In 1942, Robert Lash Robbins in cooperation with Hearst Publications and the Detroit Times produced a series of 150 colorful poster stamps depicting the insignia of most of the then-active combat units of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Corps. The stamps are both copyrighted and registered with the US Patent Office and were produced in a limited issue of just 350,000. Each poster stamp measures 1.5" x 2" and they are printed in bright colors with each unit insignia accurately reproduced. They also have a production number in the lower right corner
During this time, every one wanted to support the war effort. The Disney Studios made their greatest contribution in what became a very well known morale booster and that were the insignias designed by Disney artists. Starting with the Mosquito Fleet, the insignias personalized military units allowing them to be recognized by other units, and symbolize a group characteristic.
Throughout the war Disney Studios created around 1,200 unique insignias for training schools, bombing squadrons, naval vessels, women’s units, and chaplains’ corps. They were so popular that the Los Angeles Examiner began reproducing the insignias as poster stamps in February of 1942, then created educational albums for children, and a second album was released in March of that year. The Examiner planned to run more than 250 stamps in color for the public to collect, the vast majority being Disney characters.
As far as I can determine there have been 5 volumes published depicting the stamps and their background.
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I collect cinderellas on cover and acquired these three covers bearing examples of the WW II military insignia labels commented upon by mbo above. The first is number 12 and included in mob's post and inscribed at the bottom as copyrighted by Robert Lash Robbins. The second is numbered, but no copyright statement, and the third has neither number or copyright statement. The third may be a Disney label, but Disney is generally very protective of its graphic art and I would be surprised if its labels did not include a copyright statement.
mbo, do you have examples of the Disney labels to post?
Thanks.
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A few more to add to the collection of this thread. Some really nice items posted....keep 'em coming !!
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Don,
Unfortunately I do not have any Disney labels that I can post. I obtained the labels that I have in a bulk lot.
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Thanks, Mel, for your reply. Maybe someone else has some of the Disney military insignia poster stamps.
Below are a couple more covers with tied WW II cinderellas. The first is the second Illinois Bataan Relief poster stamp that Londonbus posted. I don't have an example of the first.
The second cover features a WW II propaganda poster stamp distributed by the Tidewater Oil Co. I believe the company reproduced 50 of these posters and gave them away to customers. I don't see them on cover frequently, probably because of their larger size.
The small seal on the second cover is an American Legion item promoting Camp American Legion somewhere in Wisconsin. The small print is fuzzy and I can't make out the location in Wisconsin.
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Two American Philatelic Society advance labels for its 1942 annual convention. There are two varieties of this label. The first (top) has "Keep 'em Flying" in the blue star field while the second (bottom) has "Buy War Bonds and Stamps." The Fields/Picklo cinderella listing indicates there is a third style with no slogan in the star field, but I have never seen an example. Does anyone have, or has anyone seen such a third variety?
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@DonSellos
I also have the two "Keep 'Em Flying" labels and have been looking for the third variety for years and have never found one. I'm not sure it even exists but as you indicated, it is mentioned.
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Here's one from Britain !!
Great Britain-the Shield
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And another from Britain.
A 1940's propaganda type issue, probably by Polystamps of London because of the similarity of printing to other known Poster stamps.
These are for the Royal Navy and the sheets of blue and red are a mix of these se-tenant blocks and blocks of British War Planes.
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Two more WW II posters reproduced by the Tidewater Oil Company and distributed to its customers. These two, U.S. Marine Corps recruitment posters.
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I have a few of these Poster types. Very atmospheric.
More to come......
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A WW II label on cover urging housewives to save excess cooking fat for conversion to glycerin to make explosives. Early in WW II the Office of Price Administration created an American Fat Salvage Committee to urge American homemakers to save fats from cooking. While the alleged purpose was for the manufacture of explosives, in reality, the program was more for the soap industry that also used large amounts of glycerin to manufacture its products. Making munitions, however, seemed more patriotic than making soap. Contributors of cooking fat received about 4 cents per pounds, plus two ration coupons for the purchase of lard or butter.
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Hardly a poster stamp, this one, but definitely from the WW II era with a popular slogan of the time. The Poster Stamp Bulletin of December 1941 announced that this label and four others of different design were available in a set of five for .05 cents. These labels are frequently seen on covers posted during WW II years. The aircraft image looks like a Bell P-39 Airacobra produced between 1940-1944, but not used extensively by the United States. Most were given to England and Russia under the lend-lease program.
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This cover shows a similar design to DonSellos' label but is applied inked and not a stamp. There is a star at the bottom in place of the words "Be A U.S. Army Aviation Cadet". There are two strikes, one blue and the other red.
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That meat sticker is interesting. Was it part of a set or just a single design?
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Hi Sally,
I did an online search and I only found some two page ads by The Swift and Company. The ads were different but the label was the same in each. My guess is that it might just be one from the company.
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That’s really interesting. Thanks for searching for more information- never knew those types of labels existed
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