Please Help With The Price

Please help with the price of this cinderella






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For starters, it's from Hungary.

Looks like there are possibly at least another 4974 and the centering is not so good. Unfortunately I keep getting eyestrain looking at the scan. Go to one of the on-line translation sites and enter some of the words on the stamp and try for a Hungarian to English (or your favorite language)translation. Then you can use that information with a search engine.

Klari is a bona-fide Hungarian (girl's) name, and the "Kiss-Nagy" family is recorded in Google, again Hungarian. So "translating" these words will not help much. Somebody who knows genealogy could probably track down the portrait on the stamp.

A stamp-like item numbered in the thousands suggests - to me - that it might be a label for an international exchange club; stamps, or postcards, or even something else.

Exchange clubs were popular before World War I, and upon joining, such labels were made available to members for a nominal amount.

In particular for postcards, the numbered label could be applied without writing your name and address, yet the addressee would know who it was from. In the very earliest days of postcards, it was widely believed (and often discussed in the press) that the mailman, or other postal employees, READ every card that passed through their hands. It took years to dispel this peculiar idea.

Of course, we know better now. It is not the mailman, it's the CIA, the FBI, and the DHS.

My mother's maiden name is Nagy, but no Kiss in our family. Nagy is a fairly common word, "great", "large". "Szerencséje" is luck or fortune.

This is probably a lottery stamp with proceeds going to children services.
Probably of little value.

Thanks, but what about the price?

Your stamp is probably not listed in any catalogue and therefore a market value has not been established.
Your stamps is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

How much approximately someone is willing to pay for it?

Maybe a buck or Two.

If you sell on ebay or Delcampe or something worldwide, I would think, with proper naming and decription, a start of $2 would be OK, and probably more. Maybe $5.

I say this because of the nice blue colour and the pretty girl, a kind of 1890's postcard kind of look to her.

This would go well in someone's collection.

I myself do not, at this time, collect many ciderellas but when one sees some intriguing and well done stamp, I am always hoping mu wallet had grown since the last time I looked at it, poor thing that it is.