Oddments

hello all,

any idea what these cinderellas are?
They came in a job lot.

The last is red cross, perhaps Germany? But when?



I wouldn't say the first even passes as a stamp. Or does it?
and wonder what it was doing in the ragtag and bobtail
of the packet I bought.

telcson.

I like the "FREE POSTAL SERVICE" one in the middle but I have no clue what these are?

that one was suggested might be a boy scout stamp.

Re Christmas delivery? It came as the others did from an album page containing postal strike mail. Amongst other things.

If you look closely the image resembles a scene from a boy's own paper. The odd lettering "M DR Wyllink"appears to be repeated higher up as there seems to be a ghosting of a fainter printing on the paper, of the same stamp. I can't read the words above the Wyllink inscription, which are almost illegible, but it appears to begin "A messenger in .... " but I can't make out the last word.

Telcson

The 3rd stamp is a 1949 German Red Cross charity seal.
It is from the Red Cross Society in Landesverband Wurttemburg.

Thanks Timm,

That's very precise.
Just what I was looking for.
It'd probably still be in the French occupation zone at the time, then.

I thought I'd post an enlargement of the middle one.
Not very good for reading the tiny writing in the middle bottom though




Telcson

I've not seen the stamp you have here. The bottom line with a name, I would summerize that the "M" = Messanger and "DR" is the messenger's intials and then last name. It also appears to be British vs US. Will see. I cannot read the location either. ie after "A Messenger in...". It is not a Scout stamp!

I;ve tried to enhance the resolution on the stamp and see if I can make it any clearer



Telcson

Telcson - you'll find labels, cinderellas and poster stamps in mixed lots quite frequently. And sometimes they can drive you nuts trying to figure out what they are.

That's the thrill of it isn't it?

I love some of these crazy cinderellas, trying to work out
what they are, and where they come from.

telcson

I think the name is MDR Willink.

I just googled M D R Willink and it brings up a couple books one "Utopia According to Moses; A Study in the Social Teachings of the Old Testament"

http://journals.cambridge.org/actio...&aid=3519052

Site for a book by the same author.

And it appears tht the writting is says something Like "A ###anger in C#urch" Maybe "A Stranger in church" Not sure but best I can see. Looks like a person standing out by themself will others are in a group. Roman columns buildings in the background.

This is the best I can see. Hope it helps.

I can't see why a biblical scholar would design a stamp?

I also doubt that the last word is "church" There second letter doesn't look like it's an "h". It reads more like "Cornish" or "Carwash" neither of which make any sense.

Corinth? maybe?

I still think "messenger" fits better, and after all makes more sense if it is a stamp of sorts. Though I admit "stranger" fits with the image,

It's an interesting "match" for the name, if name it is.
But it looks as well as if it should be Wyllink, not Willink.
He wouldn't spell his own name wrong, if he put it on a stamp.

Oh well, maybe one day it'll make sense.

Telcson

A Free Postal Service was issued during the British Postal Strike of 1971

That's right Phillipo,

and this was one of several stamps that were in a group of issues which were on one page together, sold as postal strike issues, when I bought them. Although the other two I posted with this one, when I started this thread, aren't postal strike issues, either.
I'd just wondered if the scouts might have produced some postal strike issues, like they do locally at Christmas in England...?
My only reason for thinking that was the scout-like uniform of the figure in the foreground.No doubt someone will say it doesn't look like a scout at all. Though saying that I'm not necessarily sure it's even a drawing of a boy.

Telcson