Talk:Cinderella stamp

Easter Seals and Christmas Seals

Should Easter Seals and Christmas Seals be mentioned here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.20.251.27 (talk • contribs) 00:02, 9 October 2005

No doubt. --Michael Romanov (talk) 08:11, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

So what is it?

The article didn't really help me understand what "cinderella stamps" are. What is the difference between these and postage stamps??? --Cotoco 20:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Good point, try it now. Stan 01:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that helps.

Now, do you know why they are called "Cinderella"? --Cotoco 17:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

None of my sources gives an explanation. OED mentions use of "cinderella" as a generic term that for things that are looked down upon but are attractive after all, after Cinderella, so probably somebody in the philatelic press used the term offhandedly one time and it stuck. Stan 18:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Railway stamps

I think not all of them should be considered as cinderellas. I agree that those issued by the Ffestiniog Railway Letter Service are privately printed and used in addition to normal Royal Mail postage. But we have other examples. In Belgium, they issued in 1929-1982 official stamps for franking the official correspondence of the Administration of the Belgian National Railways (Scott #O1-O96), and I doubt those were pure cinderellas. --Michael Romanov (talk) 08:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

World Service Authority stamps

The World Government Stamps issued by the World Service Authority in 1981 and helped to convey thousands of letters between China and Taiwan (via a WSA agent in Hong Kong). http://worldservice.org/cat.html?s=4#stamps http://www.onefilms.com/garry-davis-herald-tribune-quixotic-quest-article.php Should they be listed here? (Since Hong Kong stamps were used for the actual postage and the WSA did not intend to replace national post systems).

Not unless you can find significant coverage in reliable third party sources of the stamps as stamps. I note there is already an article for Garry Davis and he clearly is notable so you could include the stamps there, but again you would need reliable third party coverage for that aspect of his story. I note that both the links you have provided appear to be commercial in one way or another. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Lead grammar

So if the term Cinderella stamp "excludes imprinted stamps", does that mean that imprinted stamps are not Cinderella stamps? Somehow I suspect the contrary is intended, but I'm hardly sure. 82.21.171.200 (talk) 02:52, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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