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About the Club
The Cinderella Stamp Club was founded over 40 years ago in London,
England, by a small group of philatelists whose collecting interests had
diverged from the mainstream of philately into the fringe world of local
stamps, revenues, bogus and phantom issues, exhibition labels, Christmas
seals and so on - in fact, anything that looked like a stamp but was not
a government-issued postage stamp. The formation of the Club aroused wide
interest all over the world. People who had been ploughing a lone furrow
in what appeared to be a neglected field now discovered that there were
many others with similar tastes, and in its first year 86 members were
enrolled. In 2002, the Cinderella Stamp Club has roughly 600 members and
it retains its world-wide appeal over one third of its members
live outside the UK.
The whole field of cinderellas offers many opportunities for the collector.
The major stamp catalogues do not list the majority of cinderella issues
and those that do usually confine them to the back of the book.
There is no cinderella catalogue covering all aspects, but
there are an ever increasing number of specialist catalogues available,
many of which have been compiled and published by Cinderella Stamp Club
members. Even so there are still many areas where individual study and
research is required and the Clubs study groups provide a forum
for the coordination and publication of members findings.
Not all Club members collect all Cinderellas but it is possible to identify
three main types of collectors: those who collect a specific type of cinderella,
revenues or poster stamps for instance; then there are those whose interests
lie in all cinderellas from a specific country or area; finally, there
are the topical or thematic collectors who find that vast untapped resources
exist among the cinderellas. Needless to say, there are many more collectors
who do not fit into these categories and whose interests are manifold
and eclectic.
The Clubs Annual Subscription, which runs from January to
December, is £18. An additional £7 is payable for airmail
delivery of
The Cinderella Philatelist outside Europe, or £2 for surface
mail outside the UK. Subscriptions can be paid by Sterling cheque
or by PayPal. The Club has a facility for accepting Dollar cheques
from members In the USA. If you are interested in joining the Club
or would like more details, then fill in our
membership
application form. If you want some other information or wish
to comment about our website, then use our enquiry
form.
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