World War I Postal Slogans

I have created a small 18 pages exhibit for the Crossroads Stamp Show held in Quechee Vermont, USA on October 7, 2107. The club's frames hold 9 pages (3x3).

The exhibit is a beginning overview of postal slogans used in various allied countries in 1917 and 1918. I was allotted 2 frames so I cut the exhibit off at the Armistice. There are other WWI related postal slogans dealing with financial concerns after November 11, 1918.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

http://www.glennestus.com/interests.html is the starting point.

Nice job, Glenn. I think your focus is more accurately Britain & Commonwealth. With no French, Russian, etc. material, I'd focus on what you have. To the extent possible, it would be worth getting machine ID for where you don't have it, and trying to get periods of use and number of towns (there may be more literature out there), though this is more important if you ever wanted to show it at the WSP level.

There's a variant on one of the liberty loan slogans from San Francisco that you don't show.

As a matter of personal taste, you might consider using the flag as part of a section header for each country and use it at the top rather than at the bottom.

Paper history: I realize that there are a number of varieties that I don't have on the pages. I just wanted to show local collectors what one can do with such items. The last page shows 1 slogan from Easton PA. But, there are 4 different varieties of that slogan. I'm not sure that there were similar items from the other WWI belligerents, although India did use a hand slogan in Urdu which says "BUY WAR BONDS" (or some similar slogan). I don't have a copy yet.

I agree with you about the location of the flags. As I begin to work on a larger version of the exhibit I've already planned on moving the flags to the upper left with the country name. Each of the flags is the version used in WWI.

I happened to buy a small lot of these types of slogans. In the lot was a slogan from 1923 for the British Empire Exhibition which caught my fancy. Now I'm working on that collection also.

The Easton slogan is the same, but there were 4 periods of use during the different bond drives (not all easy to find as you know!).

There are a number of different angles on WWI markings. I have an exhibit on US liberty bond and savings stamp auxiliary markings - http://www.rfrajola.com/PDR2017/Lie...Liebson1.htm

That is a very nice group of slogan cancels. A couple of possible suggestions to consider are:

The war was not called World War I at the time, it was called the Great War or sometimes the 1914-1918 war. They had no idea that there would be a second world war. One possibility might be to use Great War in the title in place of WW 1.

The war started in 1914, though the US did not enter it until late 1917. I do not know if there are any slogan cancels from 1914 or 1915 to go along with the ones from later in the war that are currently in the display, but it may be worth looking for them.

Because there were so many countries on both sides of the war and slogan cancels are possible from many if not all of them you might think about narrowing your scope to just one country and going into a bit more depth. If you choose the US you might also want to look for cancels from before the war. I do not know if any exist but it would make sense to me if they did. Before the US entered the war there was a strong anti-war sentiment in the US and great political pressure to not get involved. I wonder if there might be some slogan cancels prior to the US decision to enter the war that have anti-war or isolationist or neutrality type messages?