The Cinderella Stamp Club was founded on 5 June 1959 in London, England, and is an association of

philatelist Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is possi ...

s, amateur and professional, whose interests lie in

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telegraph stamp Telegraph stamps are stamps intended solely for the prepayment of telegraph fees. The customer completed a telegraph form before handing it with payment to the clerk who applied a telegraph stamp and cancelled it to show that payment had been ...

railway stamp In philately a railway stamp is a stamp issued to pay the cost of the conveyance of a letter or parcel by rail. A wide variety of railway stamps have been issued by different countries and by private and state railways. Railway stamps of an unof ...

revenue stamp A revenue stamp, tax stamp, duty stamp or fiscal stamp is a (usually) adhesive label used to designate collected taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, ...

s, fiscals, forgeries, bogus and phantom issues,

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, Red Cross, TB and other charity seals, registration labels, advertisement and

poster stamp The poster stamp was an advertising label, a little larger than most postage stamps, that originated in the mid-19th century and quickly became a collecting craze, growing in popularity until World War I and then declining by World War II until they ...

s and many other items - all of which are the so-called "Cinderellas of Philately".

Activities

Cinderella Stamp Club Maurice Williams Roll of Notable Cinderella Philatelists

The club publishes a quarterly journal, ''The Cinderella Philatelist'' and at the end of 2008 had a membership of nearly 500, of which over 150 were outside the UK. The major stamp catalogues do not usually list

cinderella stamps In philately, a cinderella stamp is "virtually anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by a government postal administration". There is a wide variety of cinderella stamps, such as those printed for promotional ...

, except in the ''back of the book'' and the club has published many works of reference, often written by members, on areas where little else has been written. The diverse subjects have included the

philately Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is poss ...

of the

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and the

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Vignettes of Gaston Fontanille, or Delandre as he preferred to be called. The Club operates four study groups: ''British Private Posts'', ''World War 1'', ''World War 2'' and ''Telegraph & Telephone''. Each group publishes a quarterly newsletter which is incorporated into ''The Cinderella Philatelist''. Notable members include the brothers Charles and Francis Kiddle.

Affiliations

The Club is a member of the

Association of British Philatelic Societies The Association of British Philatelic Societies, commonly known as the ''ABPS'', is the British national association of philatelic societies, regional philatelic federations, and specialist philatelic societies.American Philatelic Society The American Philatelic Society (APS) is the largest nonprofit stamp collecting foundation of philately in the world. Both the membership and interests of the society are worldwide. History The organization, originally named the ''American Phil ...

.Cinderella stamps offer bewildering variety
by Rick Miller, Linns.com, 2003. Retrieved 7 July 2013..

Publications

Handbooks by number

#''The Literature on Cinderella Philately'' by H.E. Tester, 1972. #''The Finnish Shipping Companies and their Stamps'' by G.W. Connell, 1972. #''Forgeries of China's "large dragons" 1878'' by James Negus, 1978. #''United Kingdom Savings Stamps, Labels and Coupons: A survey of small savings available to the working classes of Great Britain and Northern Ireland including a detailed listing of labels, coupons and stamps issued on a national basis'' by Lionel D. Jones, 1979. #''Collecting Seals and Labels'' by Charles D. Rabinovitz, 1982. #''Index to The Cinderella Philatelist 1961-1985 and to The Private Post 1977-1985'' by Ian D. Crane, 1986. #''Great Britain: The stamps of the circular delivery companies and their forgeries'' by Christopher G. Harman, 1990. #''Great Britain Commemorative Labels pre 1950 - A Catalogue'' by Chris Chatfield, 1991. #''Christmas Charity Posts - The first decade: 1981-1990'' by W.J.D. Annand, 1993. #''Great Britain. British Empire Exhibition Wembley 1924-1925 Publicity Labels'' by Alan D. Sabey, 1994. (Supplement 1996 ) #''Images of the Great War Volume III, an illustrated catalogue of Delandre’s Red Cross Vignettes 1914-1917'' by Walter Schmidt & Charles Kiddle. #''Publications by Editions Delandre'' by Charles Kiddle. #''Images of the Great War Volume IV, an illustrated catalogue of Delandre’s Vignettes other than Military and Red Cross 1914-1917'' by Walter Schmidt & Charles Kiddle. #''Index to the Cinderella Philatelist from 1986 to 2000 (Volumes 26-40)'' by Michael James.

Others

*''The Bulletin of the

Fiscal Philatelic Society The Fiscal Philatelic Society (11 January 1902 – 1928) was an early twentieth-century British philatelic society that is seen as a predecessor to today's '' The Revenue Society''. The principal object of the society was the study of fiscal stamp ...

Vols 1-11, 1908-1928'' (Reprint 1980) *''Cumulative Index to The Bulletin of the Fiscal Philatelic Society; Volumes 1-2; 1908-1928'' Cinderella Stamp Club, 1982.

References

External links

Cinderella Stamp Club of AustraliaOfficial Web Site
{{Authority control Philatelic organisations based in the United Kingdom Cinderella stamps Revenue stamps 1959 establishments in the United Kingdom