"SCREEN STARS STAMP ALBUM" COMPLETE FIRST EDITION MOUNTED SET.
Item Description
10.5x13" with 40 pages ©1947 Harlich Mfg. Co. and approved by the National Poster Stamp Society. Embossed cream cardboard covers with string binding has center illustration designed like a stamp with facsimile signatures around margins including Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Roy Rogers, Bob Hope, Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, Betty Grable, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and more. Inside front cover has text for "Hollywood Starstamp Collectors" along with numbering system. A total of 25 packets were available to complete the series of 474 star stamps. Each of the numbered pages has a print design and text, most with facsimile signature of the appropriate star. Pages are divided into various series and include Starland, Star Quiz, Spotlight,Shootin' Star, Younger Set, Junior Set, Stage & Screen, Poster, Symphony of Stars, Stars of Note, International, and Academy Awards.
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.
Center of front cover has a few lt. scuffs and faint moisture marks. Light bumps at corner tips. Inside pages are lightly but evenly tanned and upper top edge margin at right is missing a few small bits of paper in 2" area. Album is Fine overall with complete set of Exc. stamps. High quality with nice printing and wonderful images.
