Something a bit different - Sunday School stamps |
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Steve
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Topic: Something a bit different - Sunday School stamps Posted: 14 September 2016 at 11:17 |
I recently got a full sheet of stamps from one of the publishers active in the 1970s. These will never win any prizes for artwork or design, and are only in my collection because of a) completeness and b) cheapness. I have a number of albums from the Shaw Picture Co, but none are dated. I can put them in chronological order because often they come in a batch of 3 or so, all collected by the same kid, and therefore presumably representing three consequetive years. The albums can also be placed in year order from both the ordering number printed on the back cover, and from the prices of the pamphlets advertised on the back - they go up in price.
With this dated sheet I can now allocate a year to one album and the rest should fall into place |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 13 April 2016 at 09:14 |
I recently got an entire year's worth of loose stamps: no album. I believe these sets were produced in entire sheets, so why one was split and the stamps not put in a collector's book is odd. Perhaps they couldn't afford the albums. These date from the mid 1950s
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 February 2016 at 09:14 |
These stamps, dating from 1908, are from the Faith Press which went on to produce the most popular Sunday School attendence stamps. They show their age, but I like that they used animals to represent the 7 deadly sins.
I am sure I could qualify for sloth, greed and gluttony stamps to complete the set. |
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Bas S Warwick
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2015 at 21:07 |
.........ah the golden age of British steam
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2015 at 11:03 |
The King class was my thing - Paddington to Snow Hill and beyond. Shame they brought the tone down with a DMU on one stamp However, now those evoke nostalgia and a heritage line near me offers rides in one at weekends
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Bas S Warwick
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2015 at 10:57 |
Great stuff Steve....Those trains look mighty interesting - I can see a Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive - you would think it might be 'Mallard' which broke a steam record. However Mallard is blue - so that might be Dwight D Eisenhower, Sir Nigel Gresley, Silver Link, Dominion of Canada, Empire of India, or any one of the marvellous beasts. Great loco's - having seen most of the iron horses belching and spitting at Kings Cross when I was a wee lad. Those were the days my friend - we thought they'd never end
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 October 2015 at 04:01 |
A bit different are these sheets I recently got. They come from a publisher I haven't come across before, so I have no idea what the collector's books look like. They have taken a different approach in not only having different sheets for girls and boys, but also having 6 different themes for the stamps per sheet. There must be at least 6 different sheets; is that in total or per year? I have no idea. From the cars featured on the boys sheet these date from the mid 1960s. The edges are a bit tatty and they have been folded a bit funny, which combined with their size makes them hard to get a half decent photo.
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Bas S Warwick
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 September 2015 at 09:20 |
Amazing hoard Steve......I've been on the lookout here but seen nothing other than a 'missed you at church last week - hope to see you next week' postcard.
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Colin
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 September 2015 at 06:28 |
If you read the small print Steve, I think you'll find your reward for such works will be waiting for you in heaven. In the meantime you have to wander alone through the wilderness, resisting temptation....
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 September 2015 at 04:59 |
I haven't posted on this thread for nearly a year!!
There are some good reasons. Firstly, while I have been adding to the collection, mostly the new aqcquisitions have been much the same format - a lttle album with spaces for 52 or more stamps. I have had some new titles though Secondly, when I started this I really had no idea of the scope and the range of these albums. There are more series to collect, a range of years for each, and sometimes alternate formats for a series. I have also added sets of albums collected by siblings. So a year series of 4 or 5, from 2 or 3 children. So you can imagine how these can build up. In fact I have so many to scan in and accomodate it has become a daunting task. This is a picture of those albums yet to be scanned. I think I am need of an upaid volunteer helper with these. Please pm me with your CV and I will arrange interviews |
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