From the Hakes 7-18-2012 auction lot description: Each is 1.75x2". Each stamp has 1942 copyright "The Adpress Baltimore." Morry Greener Collection. {Per the Feb. 1942 issue of the Poster Stamp Bulletin, there were 6 poster stamps in this set, so it is unlikely an album was ever made for these stamps. As I have seen only one of these stamps on a 1942-1945 cover, no separate page is planned for these stamps.}
Also displayed is a 1917 WW I ad from this printing company located at 28-30 S. Paca St. This company was owned by Baltimore Talking Board Factory, which was located next door at 36-38 S. Paca St, Baltimore, MD .
The only cover I have seen with one of these stamps.
Google Streets: Image capture: Aug. 2022 © 2022 Google -- 38 S. Paca St. -- 36 S. Paca St., from the alley to the next street, where 28-30 S. Paca St. was in 1942, is now a parking garage -- Google Map of the area.
This 8" x 19-3/4" AFSF complete sheet I own, although intact, is in very poor shape with numerous tears and perforation separations. {With only 5 different stamps per sheet of 50, it is unlikely an abum was ever made for these stamps. As I haven't seen any of these stamps on any 1942-1945 cover, no separate page is planned for these stamps.}
A4V {I have not seen an album for these stamps. However, the back of each stamp states: "For the complete collection, with special mounting, send One Dollar." I have seen no example of this "special mounting".}
12-1/2 x 19-1/2 complete sheet, front and back (each in 6 parts, because I cannot scan the entire sheet in one scan.)
- "Combat Insignia" Poster Stamps (Volumes 1 - 5)
- "Combat Insignia" Poster Stamp Albums
- "Combat Insignia" Poster Stamps (Volume 6)
Album Covers. I have not yet created PDF's for these albums. See the above links for all 251 stamps in Volumes 1-5 and about half of the 200 stamps in Volume 6 that I have seen.
FWP complete 16 page album scan (14 MB PDF/OCR) -- with all 50 stamps
F-A complete 24 page album scan (16 MB PDF/OCR) -- with all 20 stamps
TBoNS complete 24 page album scan (24 MB PDF/OCR) -- with all 40 stamps
H-A complete scanned sheet TBA (I don't have a copy of this album.)
{With only 4 different stamps per sheet of 16, it is unlikely an album was ever made for these stamps. As I haven't seen any of these stamps on any 1942-1945 cover, no separate page is planned for these stamps.}
Per the Oct. 1942 issue of the Poster Stamp Bulletin, there was a second set of four "Loose Lips" stamps, but I can't find any examples of them. All I found was a Seagram poster that looks like it was the source of their "Stop Rumors" stamp, and a second Seagram poster reproduced on a postcard.
SotN complete 20 page album scan (16 MB PDF/OCR) -- with 20 of the 32 stamps
S-H complete scanned album TBA -- 20 stamps
So42 complete 16 page album scan (14 MB PDF/OCR) -- with all 48 stamps
This related label is an add-on to a pre-war 4-03-1938 (U.S.S. Portland) cover. It is the same eagle that appears on the back of the album. I have not seen another copy of this label.
The following scans are courtesy of Steve Shay (USCS). These covers were published by Nanco, Inc. of Long Beach, CA. "Nanco commercially printed stationery for use with clipper mail by sailors and also a couple of envelopes for use by the fleet when training in Cuban waters. ... There were about a half dozen designs."
The following scans are the same as the unused designs above, but serviced. However, the third covers show two different styles of Air Mail border, the text below the cachets is different and in a different color, one cover has "Via Clipper Mail" in red below the stamp and the other has "Via Air Mail" in blue, and one cover has an outline of the U.S. and the other doesn't. -- 4-03-1938 (U.S.S. Portland) -- 6-03-1937 (city?) -- 4-08-1940 (U.S.S. Nashville) -- (all eBay)
TFAS complete 24 page album scan (19 MB PDF/OCR) -- with all 48 stamps
TFAS complete 24 page album scan (17 MB PDF/OCR) -- with no stamps
WAoVB complete scanned album TBA -- 20 stamps
Victory complete scanned album TBA -- 20 stamps
WPotW complete 20 page album scan (1.5 MB PDF/OCR) -- with 24 of the 32 stamps
{I have not seen an album for these stamps. As I haven't seen any of these stamps on any 1942-1945 cover, no separate page is planned for these stamps.}
See: The Stamp Forum
Union Pacific Railroad #2 set of 4 Poster Stamps.
See: The Stamp Forum
Union Pacific Railroad other similarly designed posters. I don't know if they were ever published as Poster Stamps.
These are single stamps. I don't know whether they are one of a set, or if they were issued in a sheet where every stamp was the same, like the first two examples shown.
Single stamps deleted from the above section because I found they are not part of a multi-design set:
See: The Stamp Forum
The ArtSwallow Store website shows over 250 different World War II Posters. How many were also published as Poster Stamps during 1940-1945?
Thanks to the The Stamp Forum (TSF) / CINDERELLAS / Propaganda and Patriotic Cinderellas for some of the poster stamps displayed above.
Other non- World War II Poster Stamps of interest to me:
Actually there are 108 different Poster Stamps, because left over sheets of stamps were overprinted for the 1940 New York World's Fair. So far, I have not seen any of these overprints on any FDC or any other 1940 or later cover.
My only interest in these stamps is because they are pictured for Planty Numbers 16, 17, 18, 19, 62 and 102 on pages 31-33, 44 and 51 of Planty Photo Encyclopedia of Cacheted First Day Covers, 2nd edition, Volume XVI, 1939 (2004). There are numerous other Poster Stamps issued for the 1939 and 1940 New York World's Fairs which are unknown on any FDC's, so I have no interest in them. Specifically designed for using these Poster Stamps, four different #853 FDC cachets are shown here.
1939 New York World's Fair Poster Stamps on #853 FDC's
The above page, in addition to displaying every #853 First Day Cover I have seen that includes a 1939 Poster Stamp, also displays every individual overprinted 1940 Poster Stamp, none of which have been seen on any canceled cover, FDC or otherwise.
There is also a project that I have not even started, and I probably won't do it. Pages 68, 78 and 90-93 of Planty's 2nd ed. Volume XVI shows ten #854 First Day Covers with a 1939 Poster Stamp. I have not seen a single example of any of these covers.
1939 New York World's Fair Poster Stamps - complete scanned sheet {I don't believe an album was ever made for these stamps.}
1940 New York World's Fair Poster Stamps Overprint - complete scanned sheet TBA {I don't believe an album was ever made for these stamps. I haven't seen any of these overprinted stamps on any canceled cover.}
My primary interests in the Lairds are their 1935-1937 "Winding Trails Magazine", and their 1929-1937 First Day Cover cachets. Their First and Last Cachets are shown here.
My primary interest in this company is that someone serviced their business Corner Cards as First Day Covers. One example is shown here.
