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While watching a Lon Chaney Sr. silent movie festival yesterday on the Turner Movie Channel, I noticed an obvious 2-cent Washington (design A139) on a letter that Lon held in "Tell It To The Marines" from 1926. (Needless to say I couldn't quite determine the perf or watermark) It peaked my curiosity about the earliest known representation of a stamp in the movies. Perhaps this 1926 Lon Chaney silent movie is the one though I doubt it.  I'm interested if anyone has seen an earlier movie showing an issued stamp from any country.
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I was JUST about to sit down and watch one of those Chaney films on DVR! I wouldn't be suprised if a stamp showed up on a few earlier silents. |
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Hi Its not the earliest movie with stamps, but I think it was called Charade, and Audrey Hepburn was in it and it revolved around stolen money, and the surprise twist at the end of the movies was how the money was converted into the ultra rare postage stamps Horamakhet. |
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That's something different - a performance by Stan Laurel before he and Oliver Hardy became a team. Is there an issued stamp visible in the movie? Although it's a bit far afield from this original thread, has anyone else noticed the red KGVs on the correspondence arriving for the Earl on "Downton Abbey"? Based on my limited knowledge of UK stamps which goes back to my childhood, I think they are the correct rate for domestic mail in the UK during that time period.
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A lot of the old comedians did stuff before their well-known work... Buster Keaton went from vaudeville to Fatty Arbuckle films. Chaplin was with Sennett, I believe. This is the stuff I used to watch when I was just a kid... (yes, I am strange)... |
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Quote: Although it's a bit far afield from this original thread, has anyone else noticed the red KGVs on the correspondence arriving for the Earl on "Downton Abbey"? Based on my limited knowledge of UK stamps which goes back to my childhood, I think they are the correct rate for domestic mail in the UK during that time period. Here's a copy of one of the Downton Abbey postmarks in case anyone is curious.  |
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Odd looking perforations? Are those correct? Nice cancellation; they even had the correct year. |
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It's probably a printed image that's been cut out with a special edging blade. Those look like the perforations my craft scissors make.  |
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"The Monster" 1925 (sorry, we have a regular non-high-def-huge-screen TV)  |
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Wow, that beats the one I watched (1926). Curiously the stamp design on the ones in "The Monster" are A157, and the one in "Tell It To The Marines" is the earlier A139 design. Any earlier ones? |
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I'll have to keep this thread in mind next time I break out my Buster Keaton DVDs! |
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