This a more developed Cinderella. It apparently came as part of a perforated sheet of stamps. It has glue on the back.
In May of this year, a second well had just opened up in the Permian Basin in Texas…on land owned by the University of Texas. Whoopee! Break out the bubbly!
I browsed the AGA monthly issue that had notice of this convention in 1923. The proceedings looked…well (pun intended), interesting to them what was there, I’m sure.
Nice poster design, though. The stamp is 2.25″ x 3.5″
This little (1 x 2.375″, no glue on reverse) Cinderella stamp has one thing going for it: it promotes an Exposition that was taking place the same summer as the seminal International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. From its French title, we get the term Art Deco.
3, 698 miles apart, same thing, big difference in influence. And we got Erté, which is not a bad thing (the name shows up frequently in the New York Times crossword puzzles).
This is a 2″ x 3″ advertising Cinderella stamp on paper that’s a little stiffer than copy paper. The reverse is blank and has never had any glue applied to it. This is one of a collection of trade stamps, mostly from the 20s and 30s that I bought around thirty years ago. I’ve been unable to find out much of anything about them.
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