Patriotic War Fund

These are my favourite Cinderellas from the Great War.
I am not sure if it depicts the Angel of Mons or Victory.
But wonderful art work

That's a nice accumulation you have there. The vignette was titled "The Sword of Justice." It was an adaptation of a war poster captioned "Take Up the Sword of Justice." (At least I'm pretty sure the poster came first.)

[edit: I meant to include an image of the poster, and was distracted...

Nice colorful set you have!

In the "Cinderella Price Lists of Bill Hornadge 1990-2000" catalog it reads:





Cheers

Is it correct that the original six were blue, brown, green, lake, orange and purple frames around black vignettes?

Cheers CJD, thats a great bit of info, now I will heve to re-write the page.
Cheers Lofty

WOW -- those are beautiful!

A very lovely design. The original set of 6 is written about here:


http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarch...%200796.html

They were printed in sheetlets of 12. Others were printed in sheetlets of 10. All sheetlets are very scarce and are not often seen on the marketplace.
The original cost of 1d seems like a bargain now !

A set of Inscription strips of 4 from the bottom of the sheets sold for £115 in June at auction.[Maresch?]

Londonbus1

A higher-resolution pic of the poster should be readily available on the 'net. Bernard Parkridge was the artist.

I assume it is the Lusitania sinking in the background...any of our ship spotters able to confirm that? (She had four funnels, and went down bow-first, listing to starboard.)

Will they tar me if I say that cinderellas are starting to look more attractive to me than stamps ??????

Great looking items - Will have to have a re-think about Cinderellas - maybe

I wonder if you guys can help any further?

I've followed the link given by LondonBus1 and found the Flight PDF but cannot see a reference to the war fund lables. I have a collection of 12 of these and they are all different colours - of course this could be down to fading and aging I guess but they all look fairly OK so I'm wondering if there was a re-print or maybe 2 different print runs?

Anyway Id be fairly confident in saying that there are more than 6 colours of these stamps.... but I only know what I've read here ... and what I can see on the page in front of me

Bob

Sorry I can't help with more info, Bob, but I'll be interested to hear what else anyone has to say as well.
I just picked up a nice sheet of these in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. If any of you are in the area, Charles at StampKing has at four or five more of these available!

cjd, the poster is after a pastel drawing by Parkridge (which I have not yet found.) As for the ship, it probably is the Lusitania. The poster was released just two months after the sinking--from what I understand--and the loss of life brought great popular influence against Imperial Germany. The British would certainly use its symbolism in its propaganda posters.