"HOLLYWOOD SCREEN STARS STAMP ALBUM" COMPLETE FIRST EDITION.
Item Description
10.25x13" w/40 pages. ©1947. Harlich Mfg. Co. and approved by the National Poster Stamp Society. Embossed cream cover w/string binding. Center illustration designed like stamp. Embossed text reads "Hollywood Screen Stars Stamp Album." Numerous facsimile signatures appear around margins. Spine reads "First Edition." Gold embossing remains vivid w/little signs of wear. Exc. Inside cover has forward w/instructions for "Hollywood Stamp Collectors. Text also includes the stamps/packets numbering system. A total of 45 packets were available to complete the series of 474 star stamps. Each of the numbered pages has a print design and text, most w/facsimile signatures of the appropriate star. Each page contains 6-16 stamps. Bottom of each page reads "©1947 Hollywood Stamp Stars." Various numbering systems were used for each different series. Everyone and anyone who was involved in the movies or Hollywood appears to be represented here. Some of the myriad of stars include Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln, Spencer Tracy as Thomas Edison, Don Ameche as Alexander Graham Bell, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Clark Gable, Robert Mitchum, Van Johnson, Alan Ladd, Burt Lancaster, Vincent Price, Ronald Reagan, Cesar Romero, Orson Welles, John Wayne, Robert Young, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Rosalyn Russell, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, Joe Kirkwood Jr. as Joe Palooka, The Andrews Sisters, Smiley Burnette, Trigger, Lassie, Gene Autry, William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Johnny Mack-Brown, Gabby Hayes, Tim Holt, Allen Lane, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Janet Leigh, Audie Murphy, Bobby Blake, Natalie Wood, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple, Roddy McDowell, Jackie Cooper, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Burgess Merideth, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Yvonne DeCarlo, Jane Russell, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Xavier Cougat, Judy Garland, Jane Powell, Alice Faye and several stamps featuring star illustrations on face cards as if from a deck of cards. Included are - Boris Karloff (illustrated as Frankenstein), Bela Lugosi (as Dracula), Edward G. Robinson, Joe E. Brown, Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, Phil Silvers, Jack Benny, Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx, Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Abbott & Costello and Harold Lloyd. An international series of stars from all over the world includes - Desi Arnaz, Glenn Ford, Sonja Henie, James Mason, Peter Lawford and Maureen O'Hara. Also included are Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Edgar Bergen, Wallace Beery, Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Hattie McDaniel (Gone With The Wind). Series included American Historical Characters, Star Land Series, World Famous Women, Star Quiz, Movie Quiz, Shootin' Stars, Spotlight Series, New Faces In The Hollywood Spotlight/Stars Of Tomorrow, Younger Set, Junior Set, Stage & Screen Series, Hollywood Screen Stars, Poster Series, Symphony Of Stars, Maestros of the Movies, Stars of Note, Star Deck Series, International Series, Academy Award Series representing award winners of 1929-1946. For catalog purposes, we show example stamps from previously offered albums so as to not remove stamp sheets from their original glassine envelopes, keeping all Mint as issued. This is only one of three examples of this stamp album we've had in unused condition in our 50 years. Previous examples had maroon and lt. blue covers. One of the few books to remain unused and intact, not to mention to have all its components survive 70 years. A movie collector's dream.
