What Is This?

Going through Grampa's old collection and came across this cover. Inside was this Christmas card. I am certain these are both Cinderella's, but is there any significance to these? Should I display them together? What would you do? Thanks!

The Cinderella that so closely mimics the actual 'Officially Sealed' seal seems to push the envelope.

You might file it under 'jail bait' but, yeah, no doubt that they belong together.

Thanks!

Jim Czyl lived in Posen, Illinois. During the 1970s and 1980s he created something like 600 different cinderella "stamps" and made huge numbers of covers with them. He was just a stamp collector who was having fun. The ones you have are just two examples. Anyone can do this and make cinderella "stamps" of whatever design they like so long as they are not so close to actual official postage stamps as to get into the counterfeiting realm. Actually, with today's computers and fancy color printers it would be extremely easy to make up your own "stamps" and put them on covers to your heart's content.

These have no real commercial value beyond a few cents each, but they would be fun and inexpensive to collect.

Cute stuff- a Collector with a sense of humor. I love it! I wonder if he and Pat Hearst were cousins?

Thanks you Kimo. I was wondering. For being in the early 80's this is especially neat. I wouldn't have the talent with today technology.

That last cover has a Czyl "post office seal", but the other stamps on the cover appear to be the work of artist Donald Evans (1947-77), who painted his own stamps. He usually worked in watercolor, and it would be interesting to see if these are original Evans "stamps" or reproductions from a book or something else.

The last pics you're referring to seem to be printed or painted onto the paper rather than stamps.