Real Photo Cinderella ?

This peculiar stamp is in the back of a late 1800s photo album.Under magnification It appears to be a miniature real photo. Has anyone ever seen this stamp design before. It is a little bit damaged but I can make out at the bottom the name Robertson and at the top of it in the corners Patent Pending and in the right corner St. Louis. A word in script in the left corner I can't make out has a double L near its end. Could it be a political campaign item ? I've never encountered another stamp like paper item like it.

What you have is called a Stamp Portrait and were popular in the late 1880's and 1890's.
C. H. Gallup, Pokeepsie, New York was a popular maker of the times.

More reading may be found at:

http://www.ephemerasociety.org/3/gr.../ASDA509.pdf

and

http://sturgisantiques.com/photogra..._york_by_c_h

Thank you Timm for the information and the link. I have been accumulating old estate ephemera for years and never found one before. This one is apparently a Genelli of St. Louis. I wonder what the full name at the bottom is or who the portrait is of. Looks like it could be some popular celebrity character of the time. Are they all considered Cinderella stamps then ?

Looks like "FO Robertson".

Another term I heard some years ago about this kind of stamp was a 'vanity' stamp.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Very nice cinderella!

I was at a stamp show a few years ago and saw the stamp below (this is just a catalog pic) in a dealer's stock. It struck me because it is an actual photograph that is perforated and was used for special postage. It is Michel semi-official airmail #8, and was used on October11-13, 1912 for special Regensburg flights.. Michel describes these items as "privately issued". Since the stamp catalogs at 7000 euros in used condition, Michel says "it is advisable to acquire only expertized items".

These items are a type of cinderella as sometimes they are found pasted next to a postage stamp (or sometimes in place of one) on letters and receive a postal cancel.

There is debate as to whether these are true philatelic cinderellas or not.

This is an example of a Photograph "stamp."
These were made using a process patented by Orrin Hulbert of St. Louis, MO. in Dec. 1885, US Patent # 333,465. The patent rights to the process was later sold to Genelli of St. Louis, MO. who then licensed it to other photographers. Genelli, DID issue a red License Stamp. Unfortunately I don't have a scan of his stamp on this computer.

Neat but in poor condition:







http://www.manitouincline.net/history.htm

Here are some Photostamps of a young women. They came in the booklet as shown, I haven't been able to find anything on who printed these.

My stepmother had some photo stamps like these with her own photo from the early 1950s. I have a few of them somewhere, and I'd post a picture if I remembered where.

Very pleased with this recent purchase: