Stamps Collection (page 7)

Buy United States government war savings stamps Your money back with interest from the United States Treasury. Poster showing a variety of people lined up at a window tended by Uncle Sam

Joan of Arc saved France - Women of America, save your country - Buy War Savings Stamps. Poster showing Joan of Arc raising a sword. Date 1918

Help him win by saving and serving - Buy War Savings Stamps. Poster showing a soldier solemly clasping the hands of two children. Date c1918

They give their lives, do you lend your savings? WSS. - War Savings Stamps issued by the United States government. Poster showing graves marked with crosses on a hill, much like views of Calvary

He is piling up his Thrift Stamps, are you? Buy Thrift Stamps. Poster showing a squirrel hiding nuts in a tree. Date 1918

Thrift stamps. We licked them at the front, you lick them at the back. Poster showing a soldier pointing to German soldiers, on the left, and savings stamps, on the right. Date 1915

Help stop this - Buy War Savings Stamps & keep him out of America. Poster showing a German soldier carrying a rifle and a bloody knife, walking amid ruins. Date 1917

Design drawings for rectangular seals or stamps. Date 1878 Dec

Stamps of Romania
Stamps and the Crest of Romania of 1906 and a small map showing the location of the country on the Black Sea, bordering Russia, Austria-Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria (at the time). Date: 1906

Swedish solar eclipse 1954
The solar eclipse in Sweden 30/6 1954, Special postage stamp and postmark Date: 1954

New postage stamp design, Fiume, Italy
A new postage stamp design for Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) when under Italian occupation, soon after the First World War. The design shows a short sword cutting a Gordian knot

The Queen with her stamp collection
At the window of a room in Buckingham Palace, The Queen, when Princess Elizabeth, with her stamp collection, in 1946, aged 20. Like her father and grandfather, she too had an interest in philately

Vatican Stamps 1929
The complete set of Vatican stamps, showing Pope Pius XI (lived 1857 - 1939; Pope 1922 - 1939). Date: 1929

Argentina - Madero Port, Pier No. 4 - Buenos Aires
Argentina - Madero Port, Pier No.4 - Buenos Aires Date: circa 1910s

False stamps manufactured by French prisoners of war during World War One

Little boy working on his stamp collection
A little boy working on his stamp collection at a table. He has various stamps laid out, and is sticking them carefully into an album

Card from J Waller & Co to an unsuccessful job applicant
A card sent from J Waller & Co. of 89 Aldersgate Street, London (purveyors of India rubber stamps and accessories for wholesale and export) to an unsuccessful applicant (Mr E Myers)

Funny Postcard - Urgency
A superb humourous postcard depicting a young man taking a long time over his telegram, which has a lot to do with the pretty young girl behind the counter

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Ship leaving the harbour

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Street Scene

Selection of French Stamps

David Lloyd George - postcard
The Stamp that wants a lot of Licking. David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916-22). This card comments on the National Health Insurance Act of 1911

Postman circa. 1840
An early photograph of a postman, circa 1840 wearing a cape and top hat. Before postage stamps, he would have to collect payment for each individual letter

Passport 1914 Reverse
Reverse, with stamps and signatures, of the British passport of Digby Lander for travel to Russia during World War One

The Stamp Galop features stamps from Western Australia and Bavaria, India, the Papal States and more - evidence of the passion for philately in the Victorian home

Scene in a Supermarket
A scene in a Tesco supermarket. Many of the items are on special offer and there is quite a long queue at the checkout. There are several promotional signs for Green Shield Stamps

Wills / Probate Warrant
Filling in warrant for probate and administration stamps

Insurance Stamps
A comment on Lloyd Georges National Insurance Act : a maidservant asks her mistress if she is supposed to stick the insurance stamps on herself... ?

Washington / Polish Stamp
Polish stamps issued to commemorate the bicentenary of the Polish patriots Kosciusko and Pulaski, who fought with George Washington in the American War of Independence

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