Selection Stamps~and You Thought Gum Was Tacky.

Selection Stamps:
The idea behind these, were that you selected the item of choice
from a page of stamps, ripped out the desirables and attached the
stamps to the order sheet, and mailed back the form to the distributor.

These are only for the hard core Cinderella collector, those with
good strength of character and a very thick skin.

I dare say, however, in 100 years time, if we are still around and consuming oil and resources, these will be highly desirable as a spotlight on what we read and listened to in the 1950's and 60's.



"Selection Stamps" coined by Art Mangan US
"Cinderellas are fun"

I have the cassette tape of "South Pacific". It was our grade 12 drama production... in 1984!

David

I bet that was some production David
I hope it was captured on film.

I remember the film for three things,
as a young lad, I thought Mitzi Gaynor was hot!
I couldn't understand why a gal would want to
"wash a man out of her hair" ?
and the propaganda preamble to the film advertising
the wonder of "Todd AO", had the camera mounted on
a roller coaster carriage, and a troopers motorcycle, which actually made me feel quite sick
I had to cover my eyes.

I think I remember these... they stopped when I was little. Didn't they have these for 8-tracks/cassette/LP ads??

Yes, I think they did Nells,

The 8 track! I had one in my MGB roadster
In a blink of an eye they were gone
and in came the audio tape.

I had "Hot August Night" on 8 track

Correspondence schools selection stamps

"selection stamps" coined by Mr. Art Mangan (sp?) US

Have read only one Herman Wouk,
"The Caine Mutiny"... a cracking read.

Wow, I must have thousands of these for records, CDs, movies...

Considering how desperate I am for crawlspace, I can't believe I haven't finished throwing them away. Of course, it helps if you can't find them...

All this talk about music brings up a sore subject with the wife...you think stamps take up a lot of room? At one point I had over 20000 records. Now down to 15000. How things change.

Yeah, the selection labels definitely take up less space than the real thing. Much easier on the wallet, too!

You realise of course, you won't go to heaven.

Tchaikovsky

Just made me go all nostalgic for my 1959 MGA, had to sell it when I moved across country. Moved up to a 1958 Chev!

Rick,
up for sale locally, last week.
perhaps a good an investment as postage stamps.

I remember seeing sheet of labels included each month with my parents' Reader's Digest magazine.

I think each one represented an LP (long playing record) and if you wanted to buy any of them them you would stick the appropriate labels on a reply cad and send this off with your payment.

Google found this old example:

That's it Nigel.
I bought my first ever vinyl, via that route.
Sent away, (ripped the tag off) I can still recall the smell of the record, when I took it out the sleeve. ( I was 13 yo I think)

Colombia I think it was, America and American goods then were the wonder of the world.

The record? "The Batchelors" (That music would last for 12 months, until "The Beach Boys" arrived)