Coffee advert stamps

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   A set advertising Fengelmann's coffee. Despite some of the imagery, I will not be decolonising my stamp collection

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Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 September 2025 at 01:03
	A set advertising Fengelmann's coffee. Despite some of the imagery, I will not be decolonising my stamp collection
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Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 September 2025 at 01:10
	A mixed bag of stamps for K. Tiktak of Amsterdam, est 1870. Well known and still in business selling tea nad their own mild blend of coffee. A quick net search shows they advertised, not only with stamps, but just about everything from wall clocks to tie pins.
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Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 September 2025 at 03:57
	More of Scheur's zuzatz Double Knight and Horseshoe brand, including a 100th anniversary stamp. This has provided a year for these stamps - 1912. This could be a full set with mixed sheet stamps. More than one printing was done of these, with different shades apparent from single stamps in my collection (not shown). At one point the stamp size, but not the design, was increased to provide larger borders.
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Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 September 2025 at 04:06
	Fairy tales are popular subjects for advertising stamps from a century or more ago. This must be from the Brothers Grimm, but I don't recognise it. This part set is promoting Kathreiner's Malzkaffee, another grain based alternative to real coffee.
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guyana1230 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recorded Joined: 13 August 2018 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 365	Post Options Post Reply Quote guyana1230 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 September 2025 at 04:06
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Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 September 2025 at 04:11
	Unusually this set does not seem to be promoting any brand of coffee. The message seems to be that whatever your job or profession coffee is good for you. Perhaps it is just promoting coffee as a whole. Must be a part set as no-one produces sets of 11 stamps. Anybody up to translating the little rhymes?
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Steve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3917	Post Options Post Reply Quote Steve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 October 2025 at 03:37

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