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What is a Cinderella?
The
masthead of the Clubs quarterly magazine, The Cinderella Philatelist,
lists: Local stamps, telegraph stamps, railway stamps, revenues/fiscals,
forgeries, bogus and phantom issues. Christmas, Red Cross, TB and other
charity seals, registration labels, advertisement and exhibition labels
and many other items...... The phrase many other items
conceals a multitude of minor stamp-like categories. Among the more curious
which have found their way into the pages of The Cinderella Philatelist
are copyright royalty stamps found on old gramophone records, glove and
mitten duty stamps, and chemical reagent bottle deposit labels. Articles
have been published on pseudo-postal stationery, telegram forms, war-time
street-appeal lapel tags and envelope economy labels.
There
are, however, limits beyond which the definition of a cinderella ought
not to be stretched and it is perhaps unlikely that things such as trade,
cigarette and telephone cards (unless the image of a stamp is incorporated
in the design), matchbox or cheese labels, aerial propaganda leaflets,
and other forms of ephemera like notgeld or scrip, will ever fully
qualify.
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