The Chaplet Stamp Album

Another and less frequently seen title from the Faith Press is The Chaplet Stamp Album. I have to assume that different titles were produced for different types of Sunday School, but have no evidence for this. The Chaplet differs from the other titles by having the Lord’s Prayer and another prayer on pages 2 and 3. The background to the stamp pages shows children playing as opposed to religious images, suggesting a younger audience. A 1938 edition mentioned in Other Examples appears to be a hard-back version, so at least two titles did have this more resilient cover.

The stamps are smaller than the Sunday Stamp Album series, at 24 x 36 mm, but appear to be by the same artist contemporary albums from the same publisher. The 1940-41 example, collected by Dorothy Sproat, is a slightly scruffy album with 4 missing stamps. Unfortunately a number are quite damaged and incomplete.

Other material

This is a form of attendance card, that is limited to six stamps, perhaps for a set or special course, or one stamp per 10 attendances? I have two examples belonging to children with the same surname, so presumably siblings. Both are identical apart from a slight difference in the order the stamps are stuck in. They are undated, but the artwork and style of the stamps suggests they are from the mid 1930s.

A similar item is a card with six stamps with a nautical theme for teachings. They are titled The Ship, The Chart, The Helm, The Axe, Prayer, and The Master’s Ticket, and are numbered 1 to 6. It does not appear to be taken from a book (though had at some time been pasted ito a scrapbook) and must be assumed to be a single card. On the reverse is written St Peters Children’s Mission July 4th - 11th 1943. These must therefore be considered reward stamps for attending a week long mission.

Don’t you know there’s a war going on?

Here is what appears to be a home made album for the stamps (not very good I will admit) from 1943-44. The pages have been torn from a notebook. It is quite likely that card and paper were, along with much else, in short supply during the war and so this was the best some could do. Quite possibly the stamps are remnants unused from previous years. Interesting though to see that the actual collecting of the stamps was still deemed to be important by some. The stamp used for Christmas Day uses the same artwork as that on the cover of a 1954 Shaw Picture Co album, hinting at links between publishers, and re-use of artwork.

Someone’s Accumulation on pages

This is something different. What appears to be left-overs from a Sunday School, of various stamps in blocks from sheets stuck onto 10 pages of ruled paper. They were described in the sales as 1950-60s, but the silver on blue special stamps were certainly in use in the 1930s. Nine of the sheets are Faith Press stamps, of various different sets as identified by the different styles. The tenth sheet’s stamps are probably from an, as yet, unidentified publisher; but they most closely resemble The Gospel Stamps in style. Click on the images to view larger images, or click Pages on the menu to see all.