Smokers On Stamps?

Those are nifty! I call this stamp "the cigar gangster". I don't know who he is, but he looks like he'd be at home in 1930s Chicago...

Egon Friedell (1878-1938) writer and historian. And cigar smoker.

Just happened to have Scott's A-B handy.

I scanned all my stuff, and this is the only other stamp I could find with tobacco. FDR and his ever present cigarette holder.

I don't own this one (it's an internet image) but I don't think this bug is blowing bubbles.

Love that pose by Roosevelt.

The bug is smoking a hookah, a tobacco water pipe, from India it looks like.

Oh this is ridiculous! I should be doing some work, instead I'm cruising stamps! Well I don't smoke, so I have to do something else on my breaks, right?
Here are two Austrian gentlemen enjoying their pipes while taking in the mountain air.

Yes, knowing Lewis Carroll it's full of tobacco. Riiiiiight.

jamesw - As I recall, in the Disney film version of "Alice in Wonderland," the hookah-smoking caterpillar languidly yet rather imperiously asks Alice: W-H-O A-R-E Y-O-U? and blows very trippy smoke rings. I really dig his slippers, too. One of the best scenes is a fabulous movie.

Here is an image of another smoking cartoon character made famous by Walt Disney: Pete, also called Peg-Leg Pete, and Black Pete, created in 1925 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. He often appears as a villain in Mickey Mouse stories. Pete was originally an anthropomorphic bear, but with the advent of Mickey Mouse in 1928, Pete became a large black cat, the persona for which he is most often associated. Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted three years before Mickey Mouse in the cartoon "Alice Solves the Puzzle" (1925). Here is an image of a stamp depicting Black Pete, printed by photogravure, and issued by San Marino on December 22, 1970 as one of ten stamps honoring American cartoonist and film maker Walt Disney (1901-1966), Scott No. 736.

- nethryk

Ahh, those were the days, when cartoon character were real men! Well..animals

Black Pete was a Cat! (shock)

well, I never.

Looks like he is in an Art Museum, in front of a Mondrian.....

Here's a stamp of a smoker that I'd like to have. It seems that the Germans produced this stamp of Audrey Hepburn smoking and her family objected to it. Before it was distribute dto the public, they destroyed most of them. An anonymous post worker snatched 30 or so of them and used them to mail letters with. One of them made it to an auction and sold for about £47,000. You can read more about this at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-47-000.html

Very well said KirkS! I must admit I did not think at the beginning of this thread that we would reach 30 posts.

Always Happy Stamping John.

Cigar-chomping redux: Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and a Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Maldives on November 30, 1974 as one of a set of eight stamps celebrating Churchill's birth centenary, Scott No. 524. Nice duds.

- nethryk

Today while searching for North Korean catalogue info I came across this blog from a Japanese author and was reminded of this recent thread about smokers on stamps. Not quite a perfect fit, but I present the Philately & Habitual Smoker's Blog, wherein he discusses his stamp collection and the types of cigarettes he smoked that day, among other things.

http://wrlz.blog15.fc2.com/

Ryan

as always from my album...



Hans Fallada
"... but the horse of the King's daughter was named Falada and could speak." It is the name in the tales of the Brothers Grimm "Goose girl".
Rudolf Ditzen took the name Hans Fallada in 1920, when his novel "The young Goedeschal" appeared out of consideration to his parents. He was a problem child. He was born on 21 July 1893, the son of William Ditzen and his wife Elizabeth in Greifswald. His father made an impressive legal career, which in 1908 made him at the Reichsgericht in Leipzig an Imperial Court Council, the top criminal and civil court in Germany.