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Issuing Company: Exhibit Supply Company Country of Issue: USA Year of Issue: late 1920s or early 1930s Color/B&W: Two colors (many different combinations) Number of Cards in Set: unknown (unnumbered) Card Size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8" Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated arcade machines |
Notes: Checklist Incomplete. Thanks to Dan Calandriello for most of the information provided about this set.
These cards can be identified by the following characteristics:
- There are 8 movie stars on each card, with each movie star in a stamp design
- Each card uses two colors, with many color combinations seen
- The same cards can be found in multiple color combinations
It appears that there are four different sets of these cards, with the following titles on the stamps:
No females have been seen on any of the cards. The reason for this might be that women were not usually depicted on postage stamps in the era when these cards were released. In the 1920s, virtually all postage stamps issued in the USA pictured men, so maybe these cards were trying to mirror real stamps in this way.
Each card contains 8 stamps of the same denomination. It appears that each card had a different denomination, so this can be used as a numbering system for the cards.
These cards are often found cut up into 8 individual stamps.
As many as 7 different color combinations have been seen for the same actor in these cards, and it is possible that there may be more.
Date info: Babe Ruth is pictured in his hat from the movie "Babe Comes Home" which was released in 1927, so that is the earliest this set could have been released. Other stars shown on the cards date the set to the late 1920s or early 1930s. Since there were four different sets of these cards, it is also possible the sets could have been issued over several years.
STAR PICTURES STAMP
50 Charles Chaplin
50 Jack Dempsey
50 Douglas Fairbanks
50 Al Jolson
50 Charles Lindbergh
50 Harold Lloyd
50 Tom Mix
50 Babe Ruth
STAR STAMP PICTURES
15 Tom Tyler
25 John Barrymore
STAMP PICTURES
10 Milton Sills
MOVIE STAMP PICTURES
1 Charles Chase
1 Ronald Colman
1 Ben Corbett
1 Ralph Forbes
1 Peewee Holmes
1 Tim McCoy
1 Tom Mix
1 (Missing)
2 Joe Cobb
2 Reginald Denny
2 Charles Farrell
2 Sunny Jim
2 Norman Kenny
2 Tim McCoy
2 Frank Merrill
2 Bert Roach
3 George K. Arthur
3 Johnny Mack Brown
3 Francis X. Bushman Jr.
3 George Cooper
3 Ricardo Cortez
3 George Jessel
3 Arthur Lake
3 George Lewis
4 Bob Custer
4 Roy D'Arcy
4 Jack Donovan
4 Milton H. Farney
4 George Meeker
4 Pete Morrison
4 Jack Osterman
4 Jack Perrin
5 Rex Bell
5 Leo Maloney
5 Tex Maynard
5 Tom Mix
5 Bud Osborne
5 Bob Steele
5 Roy Stewart
5 Ted Wells
6 Buffalo Bill
6 Harry Carey Jr.
6 Syd Chaplin
6 Monty Collins
6 Jerry Drew
6 Doug. Fairbanks Jr.
6 Lloyd Hamilton
6 Buster Keaton
7 Monte Blue
7 Ricardo Cortez
7 Howard Davis
7 Wm. Duncan
7 Glenn Hunter
7 Mickey
7 Roy Stewart
7 Billy Sullivan
8 Sonny Boy
8 Vernon Dent
8 Richard Dix
8 Farina
8 Robert Frazer
8 Hoot Gibson
8 Jean Hirsholt (Hersholt)
8 Tom Mix
10 Jack Holt
10 Buck Jones
10 Victor McLaglen
10 Tom Mix
10 Jack Moxie
10 Geo O'Brien
10 Will Rogers
10 Wheezer
11 Lon Chaney
11 Ronald Colman
11 William Haines
11 Al Jolson
11 Owen Moore
11 Glenn Tryon
11 Ben Turpin
11 Tom Tyler
13 Art Acord
13 Monte Blue
13 Joe Cobb
13 Fred Gilman
13 Wm S. Hart
13 Jack Holt
13 Buck Jones
13 Tom Mix
15 Richard Barthelmess
15 Frankie Darro
15 Wm Desmond
15 Hoot Gibson
15 John Gilbert
15 Francis McDonald
15 Wallace McDonald
15 Ted Wells
25 Buzzy Barton
25 Joe Bonomo
25 Bob Curwood
25 Wm S. Hart
25 Scooter Lowry
25 Conrad Nagel
25 Ramon Novarro
25 Harry Spear
50 David Collins
50 Creighton Hale
50 Harold Lloyd
50 Stan Laurel
50 James Murray
50 Rod La Rocque
50 Joseph Schildkraut
50 Harry Spear
75 John Boles
75 Wm. Desmond
75 Fred Humes
75 Rex Lease
75 Ken Maynard
75 Eddie Phillips
75 Buddy Roosevelt
75 Tom Santschi
100 Rex Bell
100 Big Boy
100 Harry Carey
100 Douglas Fairbanks
100 William Farnum
100 George Lewis
100 Jack Padgans
100 Tom Tyler
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