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Being in the retail industry I have an interest in the many marketing methods used - especially when they involve stamps.

Trading stamps have been around for over a century. No-one seems to know who did them first but the largest and most successful trading stamp company was Sperry & Hutchinson who started in the United States in 1896.



This thread has been set up for collectors to record their American Trading Stamps.

I have also set up threads for trading stamps from Australia and Britain.

Australian Trading Stamps -
http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=15983


British Trading Stamps -
http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=15985


Regards

Martin

These suckers are tiny. A quick googling for info reveals what appears to be several court cases and not much info. But, dates on what I could dig up range from the 1940s-1960s.

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