Smokers On Stamps?

...and a message from an old, wise and smoking woman....

On 9/28/2011 jamesw posted an image of a Cuba stamp in this thread with the following description:

And on 10/25/2011 Ajnabii wrote:

Well, only three months later, here are images of the three engraved stamps in the aforementioned series, designed by Cuban artist Enrique García Cabrera (1893-1949), and issued by Cuba on August 28, 1938 to publicize the Havana Tobacco Industry, Scott Nos. 356-58, SG Nos. 430-32.

nethryk

Ciboney Indian smoking a cigar


Cigar and globe


Tobacco plant and box of cigars

The only US stamp that I know of that depicts a pipe smoker with a pipe is the William Faulkner stamp.

I understand that the original image from which the Robert Johnson stamp was made showed Johnson with a cigarette in his mouth, but when the image was adapted for the stamp, the cigarette disappeared.

"Danger of smoking," printed by photogravure, and issued by Indonesia on May 31, 1991, Scott No. 1463.

- nethryk

The Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF) was a force of about 25,700 men and women organized and sent to fight alongside the Allied forces in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II. Here is an image of a stamp depicting the shoulder sleeve insignia of the BEF, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Brazil on July 18, 1945 to honor the BEF, Scott No. 636. Historical note: When Brazil entered the war in 1942, this unusual insignia was allegedly adopted by the BEF because previously it had been a common saying in Brazil that "a snake was more likely to smoke than Brazil was to enter the war!"

- nethryk

"Hey! Leonardo, can you hurry up please!"

Rhodesia Sc 249

Leander Starr Jameson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Starr_Jameson

Cleveland Municipal Court - Please Stop Smoking

Cover Number 151 of 600 produced
cachet by famous NZ illustrator Murray Ball.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a cigarette-making machine and the trademark of the Austrian tobacco monopoly, designed by Austrian artist Ernst Schrom (1902-1969), engraved by Georg Wimmer, and issued by Austria on May 8, 1959 to commemorate the monopoly's 175th anniversary, Scott No. 638.

- nethryk

Well-dressed pipe smoker and lady friend in Vorarlberg, designed by Austrian artist Georg Jung (1899-1957), printed by typography, and issued by Austria on August 15, 1934, Scott No. 368.

- nethryk

Anti-smoking cinderella stamps issued by the Quebec Christmas Seal Society (Canada) in 1971.

Russian nobleman of the 19th century with a long pipe (thubuk) in his hands...



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