

Hungarian Poster Stamps and Similar Cinderellas: A narrative and illustrated catalogue. "Irene Harand and The Truth About Anti-Semitism." in The Cinderella Philatelist. The Complete Guide to Stamps and Stamp Collecting. Their revival stamps were featured in the monthly subscription service Mail More Love, pictured in Oprah magazine. In 2017, two designers of Plazm (magazine) launched The Portland Stamp Company to revive the poster stamp tradition using vintage perforation equipment. Īdhesive labels of all kinds that are not postage stamps continue to be produced today to promote particular causes or events. In 1937, Irene Harand published a series of anti-Nazi poster stamps portraying the contributions made by Jews to civilisation over the centuries. Fascism in Italy (1922-1943) used poster stamps, and sometimes regular stamps, to increase the popularity of italian mass flights: Crociera Aviatoria del Mediterraneo Orientale 1929 Crociera Aerea Italia-Brasile 1930 and Crociera Aerea del Decennale 1933.Īs late as the 1930s they were still being used to promote political and other causes. Poster stamps were also widely used by both sides during World War One as political propaganda. 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. 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. The first poster stamps were inspired by the invention of the postage stamp. The 1864 Shakespeare Penny Memorial poster stamp Origins

One definition has been "labels without postage stamp values, not good for postal service advertising labels or charity labels." The unofficial nature of poster stamps has led to debate about exactly what is and is not a poster stamp. Foringer became just such poster stamps that were manufactured by the Newark Lithograph Company. 56 Robert Treat directing the landing of the Founders of Newark, the 2nd prize, by Helen Dryden, poster No. The 1st prize won by Adolph Treidler with the poster No.

The City of Newark, New Jersey, for example, for the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the City 1666–1916 had a Committee of the One Hundred organize in 1915 a poster contest inviting ten internationally known poster artists to compete against any other artist in the public forum who wished to enter the contest. The term "poster stamp" is as its name suggests a stamp imprinted with the design of a poster that won an award in a poster contest.
