Am I Correct In That...

...between the 3rd and 4th stamp, I'm seeing a joint line?


And while we're at it, anyone know anything about the label found verso?

Poor title of thread.
No, I don't think so. Similar lines/smudges between stamps 4 and 5 as well.
No idea about the cinderella.

I do believe a joint line wouldn't be black.

The line is red (albeit difficult to see in the scan).

Cute. I think the little label might be a reference to billboard blight. With new businesses and roads and soaring car use came the obligatory roadside advertising, which disturbed the natural beauty of the surrounding "landscape".

Would not surprise me that the envelope addressed to the Concord Monitor was a letter to the editor complaining of such annoyances.

The cinderella is an anti-billboard label. It was produced at a time when increasing numbers of highways were being built and more cars were being produced. So, advertisers wanted to take advantage, and there was of course a backlash.

I've seen a few of these before.

I just checked the line under a macroscope (left over from my biochem college days) and the redness in the line appears to be from ink bleed into the paper from the adjoining stamps that got accented by whatever the dark vertical line is between the perf holes. Conclusion: not a joint line.

Thanks for all the responses ! The anti-highway billboard explanation now seems so obvious on hindsight. If anyone would happen to know what organization issued it, that would be splendid.

Look closely at the stamps, these are sheet stamps not coil stamps. A "joint line" would only appear on a coil issue. :)

You're correct of course so perhaps my nomenclature is off? I was thinking of the line sometimes found between plates/panes, so perhaps 'guide line' would be better?

No matter / How you slice it / It's still your face / Be humane / Use / Burma-Shave
If you dislike / Big traffic fines / Slow down / Till you / Can read these signs / Burma-Shave

Road signs were multiplying like mushrooms during the late 1920s and 1930s. Burma-Shave ones were at least interesting - they used a series of signs so that as you drove down a road you would see a series of signs every so often, each with a short phrase that rhymed so that when read together they made up a Burma-Shave advertisement. The above are just two of the more than 600 different rhyming ads they used all over the country. In the above examples there each had 6 billboards spaced out along a road so that a motorist driving at 35 miles per hours passed one every few minutes and they would make sense as a poem at that speed. It was very clever and effective advertising but as the cinderella stamp points out, it led to billboards all over the sides of the roads, especially for this prolific advertising campaign.

docgfd - I do think you were thinking of "Guide Lines".

"I think that I shall never see,
A billboard as lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all."

--- Ogden Nash

with appropriate apologies to Joyce Kilmer

If you stare at it long enough it might show you some leg.