Need Help Identifying These Labels/Cinderellas

I found these in a cigarbox hoard of stamps. I have no clue who is responsible for printing these stamps. Does anyone have a clue. Thank you in advance.

The bottom pair is a Holy Childhood Christmas seal (Catholic seal) issued by the Pontification Association of the Holy Childhood. It was originally part of booklet of 100 seals -- 10 booklet panes of 10 stamps each. I believe that issue is late 1950s, but not sure.

Not sure the source of the Thomas Paine Statue poster stamp.

Thank you sir! I am halfway there, Any one have an idea about the Thomas Paine stamp?

The Thomas Paine statue was unveiled on July 4th, 1950.
The label was probably printed around the time of the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976.

I would try contacting these folks: http://thomaspaine.org/pages/about-us.html

I have sent them a message and I will see if I get an answer. Thank you for the contact.

Good luck!

Apparently the gentleman in charge of the Thomas Paine Organization. Checks his e-mail on Sunday. how delightful! His reply is below;


Dear Mr. Mullins,

This looks like a flyer or a postcard which were generated by Joseph Lewis in the early 1950s concerning the erection of this statue of Paine. The statue was initially supposed to be placed in Washington, DC, but the McCarthyism of the time prevented that. So Lewis had it placed near the route of the Retreat across NJ in 1776 when Paine started Crisis I ("These are the times that try men's souls...") which he wrote on a drumhead.

The Committee to place the statue had many notable people of the time: Einstein, Helen Keller, and many more I can't recall from memory at the moment.

Joseph Lewis also was responsible for placing statues of Paine in Paris, and in Thetford England,Paine's birthplace.

The quotes on the card are not appropriately sourced: Adams did write the bottom one, although he said it in disgust not praise as he was a monarchist and hated Paine's democratic philosophy. The top quote was from Paine's ally, Joel Barlow, an American diplomat who is responsible for the line in the Treaty of Tripoli: "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

I hope this helps,

Gary Berton

What a great guy!

You, too, Rob!