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    Posted: 26 October 2020 at 11:29
This Cinderella is advertising the the 1932 Czech film Lelicek or Lelicek in the Service of Sherlock Holmes from Elektafilm. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes needs a doppelganger for King Ferdinand XXIII, of the fictional kingdom of Puerto Rico, who is afraid of anarchists. Holmes finds Frantisek Lelicek, a Czech in need of money, who turns out to be a better king than Ferdinand. Sherlock Holmes was played by Martin Frick and Lelicek was played by Vlasta Burian. The film was directed by Karal Lamac.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Daniel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 October 2020 at 11:33
Here are three very different examples.

Firstly, a pair of labels issued to promote the publication of the thriller Solomons Seal by Hammond Innes published by Collins in 1980. The story is about an estate agent hired to sell a property and finds these mysterious stamps in an album and sets out find the story behind them. Nice to have them on the publisher's compliments slip. Not so long ago, I saw an example on ebay and they were described as rare Solomon Islands proofs!

Secondly, the small square stamp is a 6d  copyright stamp for the books of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894. The copyright of books dates back to The Act of (Queen) Anne of April 1710. In the case of this revenue stamp, after the death of Stevenson's widow, Fanny, their son-in-law Lloyd Osborne inherited the estate and instigated these stamps through the Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers. Commonly found in the music industry, book related revenue stamps are few and far between. Copyright royalties were paid at the flat rate of 10% of the value of the book. The stamps were issued from 1924 to 1944 when, I assume, the copyright expired.

Finally, a Cinderella for the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, an imaginary state in Europe, from 1959 issued to promote a film version of Leonard Wibberley's novel The Mouse That Roared. It is a satire about a poor small nation trying to get funds from the USA and involves the threat of nuclear war. The film starred Peter Sellers playing multiple roles. The stamp, shown on piece, clearly went through the mail and is postmarked Des Moines, Iowa Oct 6 1959. Here is a quote from the book (The Duchess is talking to her prime minister and an aide):

'what do other nations do when they are short of money? I don't mean big nations, but little ones like ours?'



'They issue a new but limited series of stamps which are bought at high prices by stamp collectors all over the world.'



'We have already issued so many series of stamps,' said Benter, 'That ... it has got to the point where it actually costs us more to issue the stamps than we expect to receive in return.'

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Duchy of Fenwick I do remember.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Daniel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 January 2021 at 08:24
Here is a nice sheet from Denmark promoting a Hans Christian Andersen Collection for Danish Schools in 1955. They were produced by prolific Danish advertising label makers Beckers Papir Industri.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Daniel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 December 2021 at 09:44
A promotional stamp for Fritz Lang's film M released in 1931. Produced by Nero-Film A.G. and distributed by Vereinigte Star-Film GmbH. Written by Lang and his wife  Thea von Harbou. Starring Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by the police and underworld criminals. A harrowing film but considered to be one of the greatest of all time.

Purchased as part of a job lot, probably rare.

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From French comic book Journal de Spirou, two panes of stamps depicting characters from the comic. Including Marsupilami, Lucky Luke, The Dalton Gang and Buck Danny and Sonny Tuckson.

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A very attractive poster stamp for the Danish publishing company Hassings Publishing House, promoting the novels of Captain Marryat.

The text reads:

A Treasure on the Bookshelf
Captain Marryat's Novels

Captain Frederick Marryat was a British Naval Captain, 1792-1848, who also wrote early nautical fiction based on his time in the navy as well as the children's novel Children of the New Forest.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Daniel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 March 2022 at 13:47
From US Cinderella producers the 'Unrecognized States Philatelic Society' (The Other USPS), we have this cover based on Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials trilogy'. In the film version of 'Northern Lights', the first book of the trilogy filmed as 'The Golden Compass', there was a letter featured from The Royal Arctic Institute, London addressed to Lord Asriel in Svalbard, Norway. The letter had a Sky Ferry Postage stamp for 5 cents, very similar to the stamps on this cover.

This one is addressed to Lord Asriel c/o Jordan College, Oxford. Here the stamps are denominated in old British currency shillings and pence.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Daniel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 March 2022 at 13:50
This Cinderella sheet, one of two similar sheets, came with a set of greetings cards from the Tintin shop in London.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Daniel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 July 2022 at 07:07
In Shaun Tan's children's book "tales from Outer Suburbia", he illustrates chapter titles with stamps. Someone, unknown, has turned these illustrations into actual stamps.

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