Buy Savings Cancel On US Stamps

I've found several cancels with "Buy savings stamps" on US stamps, could someone tell me more about them?

There's a number of variations, but it's part of a popular slogan from a machine cancel to promote the sales of U.S. War Savings Stamps and Bonds. It was a way to raise money for the war and it was still in use afterwards.

Example of full cancel -

Savings Stamps came in 10c & 25c denominations. You would buy them at the Post Office, and lick'em'n'stick'em into a little trifold brochure and, when you got to U$D 18.75, trade that in for a U$D 25 face value Savings Bond that matured in, like, maybe, if memory serves, seven years. (After the Vietnam-era inflation got going, the term-to-maturity was shortened to ~5 years, effectively raising the interest rate.)

Your cancels advertise both Savings Stamps and Savings Bonds; the latter were also for sale thru payroll deduction plans, at banks, etc.

Savings Bonds were a popular gift for childrens' birthdays, graduations, even marriage.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

That's right. "BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS ASK YOUR POSTMASTER" started in 1935 and was in wide use until 1941, when "BUY DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS" replaced it, followed by "BUY WAR SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS" in 1942. Some of each of these were used late; in some cases into the late 1950s and 1960s. The postwar slogans were "BUILD YOUR FUTURE WISELY SAFELY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS" and "SAVE THE EASY WAY BUY U.S. BONDS ON PAYROLL SAVINGS" but they aren't nearly as widespread as the earlier slogans. There's also a "U.S. TREASURY DEFENSE BOND FLAG CITY" and a pictorial horse and rider slogan with "IN THE SPIRIT OF PAUL REVERE"" and a shield with "BUY DEFENSE BONDS" from New York in the 1950s.

I should add that most, if not all, of these slogans were used on both International and Universal machines.

Thanks guys, I found a lot on ebay under "wartime cancels" but I suppose more collectible as a whole on an envelope.

To illustrate Paperhistory's listing of the slogans with a mix of International (year date arced at the bottom) and Universal (year date in straight line in middle of dial) machines:

Hi. I just joined and am not a stamp collector, so please excuse my ignorance. I am trying to date a postcard that has a Brooklyn NY cancel as well as a "Buy Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps" cancel. Can anyone tell me when that particular phrase was discontinued?
Also, is there a resource for looking at different Brooklyn NY cancels so I can figure out what year this was? It has Brooklyn.N.Y around the top of the circle, the month in the center, with some other numbers below it, horizontally, but they don't seem to be a date, and something at the bottom which is mostly obscured, which I assume is the year.
Thanks!

Could you show us the postmark?

The Defense Savings Bonds slogan was primarily used 1940-1942. The slogans sometimes were used late, so a picture would be helpful.

Found in the Stamp Smarter cancel database
Don