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Hi everyone.

I am not even sure that these are actually postage stamps



Have googled them many times. They are perforated like stamps, have the same backing gum as stamps, yet no country on them or anything to suggest they are postage stamps (except the prices?). They appear to be HMV album covers The only reason I think this is the numbers on them seem to correlate with HMV 7" albums.

They are part of a very messy collection I inherited. Sorry very new to this!

Any thoughts?

They are called "Cinderella's".
Have a search on the board as they will have been mentioned a few times.

No they are not stamps, and the country of origin is? A cinderalla collector may know.

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Greg - Looking for Goulburn Australia Cancels and Grangemouth Scotland Cancels and Covers
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They look very much like "Readers Digest" type promotional labels to me. They are Certainly not postage stamps, and no I do not think that they were ever intended to be "Cinderella's" as suggested by Allanswood. Simply promotional material.

Probably Australian or English pre decimal thingies (17'6 is Seventeen Shillings Sixpence) promoting Classical Artists, as you suggest, on Long Playing Vinyl records.

Norm

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Thanks for your responses, I didnt think they were stamps, but as I said I am very new to all this and wasn't sure what they were.

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Norm has it in one.

Reader's Digest for CERTAIN.

1960s.

They mailed you these and a glossy brochure on contents of all these LPs. And you licked them on a pre-paid postcard for the ones you wanted,

If the alleged retail was 35/- by licking these on you got each LP for 'half price'. (They were probably retail at under that anyway, in stores!)

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Actually you could save with these schemes though the RD ones never seemed to have the artists I wanted doing the music. Australian Record Club which was run by CBS (I think!) gave you a free record for every two you bought. They sold at the RRP, though it wasn't called that then so basically you got the records at wholesale price.
I managed a music shop in the sixties and we didn't like it much as CBS were competing against their retailers.

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