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Posted 08/23/2013   10:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add waihaha1973 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
This is United States stamps?



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Edited by waihaha1973 - 08/23/2013 10:28 am

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Posted 08/23/2013   10:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Appears to be a trading stamp of some sort. However, it is definitely NOT from the US.
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Posted 08/23/2013   10:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add essayk to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is a trading stamp, an award item given out by retailers to customers as a premium for purchases. Not sure which company produced and promoted these particular ones, but the whole approach to marketing started with Sperry and Hutchinson somewhere around 1916.*

To philatelists these are Cinderella items, and you might get some info on them in that forum on this site.

*[edit: I was off by 20 years. S&H got started in 1896, about 5 years after a department store in Milwaukee got the whole thing started.]
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Edited by essayk - 08/23/2013 6:07 pm
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Posted 08/23/2013   11:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't know if it is any help or not, but I found images of these stamps on the internet, which looks quite similar to the ones posted earlier, so my guess is they are from the same company:



These examples are also unidentified but were reportedly included in a stamp lot from New Zealand, so it is fair to assume they probably originated either in New Zealand or possibly Australia.

In both cases, they make reference to 0.125 p, which further supports the idea that they are from one of those countries.
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Posted 08/29/2013   02:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The '0.125p' isn't Australian or New Zealand. If it was a reference to pennies, it would have been 0.125d. The 'p' suggests the UK.
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