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Windmills on stamps

June 23 2011 by Fred Atkins (762 views)
Collectors & Research & Windmills | 1 comment

As you probably know, people out there are attempting to augment their income by printing spurious stamps (known as cinderellas) purporting to be issued by various Russian and African states on a variety of subjects, for example windmills and watermills.

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I have scanned copies of literally hundreds of these.  These sheetlets do no harm as long as collectors realise that they have no philatelic value.  As far as British collectors are concerned, it is about the only way that you can se British mills on stamps – amazingly those in charge of stamp issues have almost totally ignored that important part of our history!

 I have identified most of the stamp subjects (largely due to WSU & TIMS member Leo van der Drift),  but the attached item’s identity and/or artist has so far alluded us.

 The postmill in the margin appears to be English and that on the stamp European.

 I wondered therefore if the painting(s) appear in your collection and whether anything is known of the subject matter.  

 Any comments welcome!

 Regards,

 Fred

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Posted by Mark Berry

Thu, June 23, 2011

Google have just launched a visual search service that sounds like it would help here. In fact, if you give it this image, it comes up with the page where I identified the inner image early last year!

http://www.windmillworld.com/news/item747.htm

(At the time Fred asked me to help identify a whole set of these stamp images, and it turned out that the producer had probably got all their images by doing a search for "windmill painting" at Corbis).

I have still failed to identify the outer image, which is not in the Corbis database.

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