Display Of Cinderellas

Moved to this thread from Are postal labels cinderellas? at request of Londonbus1.

Fascinating stuff Bamra !
Do you know how many of these were used locally? I see that there is reference to such a usage.

I have NEVER seen these before and was most excited to see postage stamps 'turned into' Cinderellas !

My Family , on my Mother's side, are from Yugoslavia and I had a memorable trip there in 1988 to see relatives I had never before seen. I was treated like a King.
The war saddened me greatly and some older family members passed away due to the hardships and illness caused by it.
I often thought about starting a collection of some aspect of Yugoslavia but never got around to it. Now you have re-kindled an interest.

Nice display, great and interesting items.
Thanks for showing.
Sure I'll have loads more questions during the weekend.

Londonbus1

Interesting new field if they are real.The first question that a collector and philatelist will ask is if all those regional issues come from the same printing press to create those overprints .
I understand the local uncertainy of the times ,if they are truely local made overprints then each overprint was done at a different printing firm .But my guess and its only a guess is that someone took a few thousand sheets over to Italy and had one printing firm design and print local issues for the philatelic market.Until some research is done ,will we know the true story of these overprinted locals .

Let's be very clear about this. Already the word 'local' has seeped into the conversation, though at no point was it used by me. 'Local' has certain philatelic/postal connotations which I do not wish to honour these issues with.

With the exception of the Bosnian Republika Srpska issues, they had no postal validity, generally or locally. They are cinderellas: non-postal objects which resemble stamps (because, almost coincidentally, they once were stamps) and which very occasionally were stuck on envelopes not to frank postage but for propaganda purposes.

I think it highly likely that some of these issues were produced on the same press. Stylistic comparison may give some clues. I think it highly unlikely that they were all produced locally in the most literal sense. But I think it equally unlikely that there was a single eminence gris somewhere in Italy churning them out for some 8 or 9 different political perspectives.

The Casin issues may have been printed in Casin. The Casin issues may have been (and in my opinion probably were) printed in the FRJ. The Casin issues may have been printed in Italy. But two things are certain:
a) the best market for the Casin issues would be in the FRJ and in other ethnically Serb areas;
b) equally, anyone handling the Vojvodina, Kosovo, or Maestral issues (to name but a few) inside the FRJ/Serb areas would be in danger of having parts of their anatomy surgically rearranged without benefit of anaesthetic.

And mutatis mutandis much the same could be said of Croatia in respect of other issues.