Merchants Trading Stamps

Colin wrote: She will kill me if she ever reads this but it is true - My mum was named Juanita after her father saw it on a banana label (bananas considered very exotic back in the stone age) and decided that his next daughter would have a more interesting life with that name.  To this day she is known instead as Marjorie, but just occasionally at family events she gets called by her kid nickname of 'Juanita Bananas'.  She also had a brother named Beverley. Everyone calls him Jim.

Wow, that's a great story!!

I'm actually listing these on Etsy, not Ebay *shudder, Ebay*, as collage, scrapbook, or shrine fodder. I think I will have a better chance appealing to artists' sentimentality rather than some rogue merchant stamp collector.

Much to my surprise I have already sold two (and I've only listed four, the research is nearly impossible) kinds of non-postage stampy stamps. One was a set of 20 Blue Willow stamps, the other was a set of two from the bread store.

Today I corralled my 70 year old mother in law and tried to pick her brain about these old stamps. She only remembered one, McCartney's (she was a green stamp ONLY collector). I was amazed that I found out anything about them at all, and I'm really proud of what I dragged up after over an hour of research:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/47752828/mccartneys-grocery-store-of-tulsa

Does anyone know the name of Art's book, or Art's last name? I'd really like to get my hands on a copy of the book.

Thanks so very much for the information and replies. I'm so happy to have found a place that I can ask about these! I will look for those two guides that were also recommended.

I also have a pretty good stack of Easter Seals, faux Christmas stamps... "real" Cinderella stuff, not just the merchant type. In addition to a big drawer full of actual postage from all over the hell.

Ande

Art,

I started collecting trading stamps about 7 years ago and acquired a copy of your catalog about 4 years ago. I have maybe 2000 different small stamps (have not yet cataloged larger ones) of which about 100 are not in your catalog.

Do you know of any other collectors that want to trade or would sell their collections?
Finally I would be glad to assist in your catalog update effort, especially with information about stamps that I have that are not yet cataloged.

Bill

Best way is to scan them and upload a picture, I am sure someone here will know what they are.

Thanks for the welcome and the advice. They are in pretty bad condition as they fell out of a grandmother clock in the museum stores when we were moving it! Will scan them next week when back in work

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