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SPECIAL NOTICE: Please read before bidding.

updated: 06/10/2015

All items are in mint and never-used condition. These are specialty hand crafted items using archival-electrostatic digital printing process on gummed paper and manually pin-perforated (variations may occur due to the nature of the process). All items are limited printing/editions and non-mass produced.

 

Russian Federation Customers require Registered Mail - $16.00 + $2.75 postage . I had a lot of problems with lost mail to Russia

Registered Mail has increased due to USPS postal increase (06/10/2015).

Transaction will be cancelled and payment will be refunded if registered mail is not acceptable to Russian Federation buyers.

Thank you.

Be A Smart Buyer - Know the Facts:

Full legal disclosure to buyers in accordance to Ebay policies and MC999 guidelines:

 

 

If you are looking for official postage or stamps, you are not in the correct category

 

The following statement is disclosed as per  seller's agreement and adherence to Ebay's policies regarding stamp related items

 

DESCRIPTION:

 

The items are placed under "Cinderellas" section of Stamp categories, to alert buyers that  they are not official stamps and they do not represent any official postal entity.

 

This item is an "ARTISTAMP"  which follows the definition below:

 

1. This was not copied from any prior work or any previous entity.

2. It is an original "Art" item shaped like a stamp created by an artist or group of artists

3. There are no official stamps of which these items were copied from.

4. These were not copied from a prior work or any previous entity to      defraud  or mislead people of its authenticity.

 

 

 These items are not  replicas for the following reasons:

 

1. This was not copied from a prior entity or any previous entity.

2. It is an original "Art" item created by an artist or group of artists

3. There are no official stamps of which these items were copied from.

 

Definition of Replica (source: Oxford Dictionary)

  An exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale

 

These items are not a facsimiles for the following reasons:

 

1. This was not copied from a prior entity or any previous entity.

2. It is an original "Art" item created by an artist or group of artists

3. There are no official stamps of which these items were copied from.

 

 

Definition of Facsimile (legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.c o m )

An exact  replica of a document that  is copied so as to preserve all its original marks and notations.

 

These items are not forgeries for the following reasons:

 

1. This was not copied from a prior entity or any previous entity to defraud

    or mislead people of its authenticity.

2. It is an original "Art" item created by an artist or group of artists

3. There are no official stamps of which these items were copied from.

 

Definition of forgery (legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.c o m )

 

The creation of a false written document or alteration of a genuine one, with the intent to defraud.

 

 

The definition of artistamp is as followed:

 

DEFINITION OF ARTISTAMPS

The term artistamp (a portmanteau of the words "artist" and "stamp") or artist's stamp refers to a postage stamp-like art form used to depict or commemorate any subject its creator chooses. Artistamps are a form of Cinderella stamps in that they are not valid for postage, but they differ from forgeries or bogus Illegal stamps in that typically the creator has no intent to defraud postal authorities or stamp collectors.

Artistamp creators often include their work on legitimate mail, alongside valid postage stamps, in order to decorate the envelope with their art. In many countries this practice is legal, provided the artistamp isn't passed-off as or likely to be mistaken for a genuine postage stamp. When so combined (and sometimes, less strictly speaking, even when not so) the artistamp may be considered part of the mail art genre.

Irony, satire, humor, eroticism and subversion of governmental authority are frequent characteristics of artistamps. Artists may leverage the expectation of official endorsement that necessarily inheres in governmentally-issued postage for the purpose of shocking or subverting viewers' expectations, with such actions typically representing a specific political and artistic motive. Other practitioners are content to depict more homey subjects like kittens and family members. Some artists use the form create fantasy stamps for their own postal administrations or countries – in many cases thereby developing or complementing an imaginary governmental system.

 

DEFINITION OF CINDERELLAS

In philately, a cinderella stamp is "virtually anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by a government postal administration..."^[1] The term also excludes imprinted stamps on postal stationery.^[2]

 

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Please remit payment within 1 weeks or if there is going to be delays, please email or send message to the seller. 

    Open communication is required. If any shipping or payment invoice changes arise (e.g. Paypal misdirection of funds) . Seller will be contacting buyer. (Extremely rare circumstances). This is a deterrence against hard to instruct Ebayers.

 Categories:  Artistamps, phantoms, fantasy labels, local delivery service,private and local post, strike post, revolutionary post, provisional postage, local courier service, speculative issues, cinderellas, municipal issues, propaganda labels, advertising labels, Independent artist and graphic illustrator's items

Not Official Postage Stamps- These are not used for postage

Items are not associated with known official postal entities or authorities. They are considered as non-catalogue and unofficial. Most items were acquired from local artistamp and cinderella events.