Stamp Insider For March–april 2017

Stamp Insider for March–April 2017



The March-April 2017 issue of the Stamp Insider, journal of the Federation of New York Philatelic Societies, is online and available for free download in PDF format or viewing online with page turning. It is available in both PDF and HTML5-friendly format at:
http://www.stampinsider.org

The issue is devoted to the home front when the US entered World War I on April 6, 1917.

In the lead story — Flogging Bonds To Beat the Kaiser: Slogan Cancels Promoted Public Awareness — Glenn A. Estus shows how slogan postmarks promoted Liberty Bond sales in the US and War Bonds in Canada, as well as Thrift and interest-bearing War Savings stamps in both countries. Estus and George McGowan's Food Will Win the War illustrates slogan postmarks used in the US, Manila, Philippines, and Newfoundland.

Steve Swain's The Darker Side of Patriotism: The Home Front Confronts the War Front illustrates postcards promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds and stamps, contrasting the colorful domestic cards, black and white soldier's mail Overseas Post Cards showing the weapons of war, and Treasury Department cards produced for the Liberty Loan Committee of New England. In a short article he also illustrates a Red Cross postcard for military personnel arriving overseas sent by an heir of the founder of Coca-Cola.


Albert W. Starkweather's A Relative Mystery shows how a February 19, 1919, postcard sent by a great uncle on duty in France to his mother ties in with family genealogy.

In another significant event in 1917, Ruth L. Sabo's Deltiology column is devoted to the Russian Revolution.

The featured video — The Bond — is the silent movie Charlie Chaplin created at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee for theatrical release to help sell Liberty Bonds. His half brother, Syd Chaplin, appears as the kaiser.

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Thank you very much.

Thank you for sharing the link.

On a personal note: I need to thank Al Starkweather, the editor, for taking my article on machine slogan cancels and really spicing it up with illustrations showing how the US tried to raise money for the WWI war effort. I just read an article in Smithsonian Magazine last night about the Liberty Bell's use in the money raising campaigns.

Al always amazes me how he finds illustration to augment what his writers submit. BTW, I'm always interested in obtaining new slogan examples.

Glenn Estus

Another note from the list of stamp shows in the Stamp Insider - The Troy, New York Stamp Show that's held every third Sunday of the month will actually be the on the Saturday before that 3rd Sunday of April since that Sunday will be Easter. The show for next month will be on April 15th, the Saturday - same place.

Quite a few of the Stamp Insider article writers attend that show too.