Postal Savings Stamp (1941)

Thought someone might find this oversized Postal Savings Stamp interesting:

..........Minuteman!



1942

They are nice

How many in the set?
Never seen them before.

Londonbus1....lives a sheltered life.

Not known here Lb


Wiki:

Minutemen were members of teams of select men from the American colonial militia during the American Revolutionary War. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name.

The minutemen were among the first people to fight in the American Revolution. Their teams constituted about a quarter of the entire militia. Generally younger and more mobile, they served as part of a network for early response. Minuteman and Sons of Liberty member Paul Revere was among those who spread the news that the British Regulars (soldiers) were coming out.

Revere was captured before completing his mission when the British marched toward the arsenal in Lexington and Concord to collect the weapons stored there.[1]

The term has also been applied to various later United States civilian based military forces to recall the success and patriotism of the originals.

Another color/denomination of the smaller War Savings variety:

I obviously have but it's the memory !

I have these;



And these advertising labels too !





Now I'm off to see the doctor

Londonbus1....Who am I off to see?

Between all the different types their are about 15-20.

I have a few of those savings stamps and booklets. I've always liked the image. Plus my first stamp album was a Scott's Minuteman US album, it had a full color version of that imagery. That was in 1984.

Burma:
Postal Savings Stamp.
1942 issue, overprinted with decimal currency in 1954.