Poster Stamp
Collectors Club

Poster stamps, promotional in their purpose, were meant to bring information to the public about an upcoming event or to influence the purchase of a product or service. This feature of the PSCC website will illustrate poster stamps on covers, picture postcards, billheads, and any other item that was used to get the messages on the stamps in front of their intended markets. Cancelled stamps showing the year-to-date in the cancel will also be illustrated.

Poster Stamps - Meant To Be Used!

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A high school football schedule mailed from Fremont, Ohio in 1939.
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Wonderful graphic on this label for a New York City cigar manufacturer. Mailed on a Columbian Exposition postal stationary item.
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Very early book printer poster stamp for a Brunn, Germany book printer, lithographer and paper sales company on a postcard mailed in 1872.