Copy Cats, Copy Cats

I came across this German poster stamp that copied (plagiarized?) the design from France Scott #687. I was wondering if anyone knows of any other 'copy cat' designs? Might be fun to see what is out there.

Good catch!

I confess I'm kind of interested in visiting the Tabu-Cabaret now...

Just wondering how you know which came first and if both were based upon the same design on a different item, say a photo.

I only know about the French stamp, which was designed by Pierre Gandon and engraved by Jules Piel, and won the Grand Prix de l'Art Philatélique in 1953 (Gandon's work is my specialty). I feel relatively confident that it came first, not that I could prove it in any way. If Gandon based the design on a photo, which is perfectly possible (I've known him to base his stamp designs on book engravings), I've never identified that photo. Love to see it if anyone has!

In my opinion (and this has no more weight than an opinion!) I would imagine the poster stamp copied another stamp rather than both sourcing the same photograph. But who knows! That's why I only suggest plagiarism and didn't claim it flat out!

The stamp exemplifies the 'New Look' introduced by designers for Christian Dior (tight waist, full-length skirt), an expression of the release from wartime rationing of cloth. Mind you, that dress gonna sweep up a lot of dirt and Parisian dog mess. Gandon must've exagerated the fullness.

The poster stamp's probably harkening back to Paris in the 1920s- the time of Josephine Baker and jazz- two things that Nazis didn't like, the wrong skin colour and the wrong music. Maybe 1970s.

Nils, some other copycat designs.
USA/Domincan Republic
USA/Australia

@Flightle_Bee, sounds reasonable to me!

@Germania... excellent finds! They really are close copies. That's the kind of thing I was talking about.

SPAIN 1930
The Naked Maja by Goya

And....

@jorgesurcl, looks like that poster stamp is from the same cabaret as my original posting! That's fantastic! While the painting is well known and could easily have been copied innocently, I see that the rest of the stamp layout and design are also copied. Looks like whoever did the advertising stamps for Tabu was looking to old postage for inspiration...

@Nils Helstrom...Yes it seems he had some interest in stamps.
Or maybe he thought stamp collectors were interesting potential customers for the Cabaret-Bar, and used those designs to catch them

Philately and cabaret, an obvious pairing of interests...

An Argentine Cinderella "inspired" by the 1929 US stamp dedicated to Edison's Electric Light Golden Jubilee

@jorgesurcl, another good find... well spotted!

@Germania That dominican stamp is interesting. I assume it is not yours. It is what is called the "E Expreso" error. The original design is from 1927 and said Entrega Especial (Special Delivery), but it was altered to then just say Express, but for whatever reason, 500 stamps that were printed with the altered design kept the original first E from Entrega. The stamp itself was also completely redesigned and issued again in 1941, this time with a different border, possibly making it "the most times a single country copied one stamp", with at least 3 different designs being stolen from the original American special delivery design. I personally own the Expreso and later redesign, but not the original Entrega Especial variety. All of them are quite hard to find.

Here is one that I found that I did not see anybody talking about online. It is a stamp from Uruguay from 1884 that plagiarises the design of the 1883 US 2c Washington. (Please do correct me if any of what I said is wrong, I'm nowhere near confident enough to think I have everything right)

Azad Hind commemorative stamp directly steals most of the design from one of the original German-printed Azad Hind stamps, the only difference really is that the Azad Hind members have been replaced with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who was the leader of the Azad Hind.