O Scale Circus Posters

Thanks for that great tip.

Excellent!

colorado hi railer thank you for this great info.

They would be neat to have!
Ralph 

Those are really good looking and you can't beat the price.  If you have any stamps left you could use them as the new hipster way to send a card or letter.

Awesome! Just what I need. Thanks for posting,

Bob

What an awesome idea!

Andy

That is a great idea.  I love circus posters.

Art

Now for some Circus lore:

There would be a circus train car [bagage car type] called the Advertising car that would come into the towns where the circus was do to play about a week or so ahead of the show and dropped off at a siding. While it would have some bunk beds in one section the biggest part of the car would have long tables along the outer walls. The tables were used to lay out the posters so that glue (plaster) could be brushed onto the back of the posters then be hung around the town. This was called "plastering the town". Under the tables all the poster make-up peices were stored. Posters were of various sizes and the size went by the term sheets. So you had one sheet posters, two sheet posters, etc.

I beleive the last RBBB advertising car is at The Circus World Museum in Barabo, Wi.

"Vester" the clown, former member Clowns of America [see thread on dropped hobbies].    

Oh, fantastic.  Great idea!

Thank you very much!  this is type of idea I love.

Great idea! Thanks for the tip.

No, although if they never leave home I doubt anyone cares.

This is a really good idea and one that I would have never thought about.  I am sure there have been other stamp designs over the years that would've worked well for this as well.

Skirt the entire issue and find posters on the net......download them....size and print......some Elmers glue......no Feds knocking at the door!!!

I was thinking I could get Staples to run me off big sheets of these, but with USPS

Forever on 'em in fine print, that looks like a bad idea. Wonder if Staples could block

out that wording?   Since the U.S. Mule is starving, and they want to sell stamps that

do not get used, wonder if we could lobby them to make sheets of old store signs, too,

such as defunct cola signs, vanished auto signs, etc.  Of course, every December when

I go in to get holiday stamps, I wonder who designed 'em?   I have much better shots

of Xmas scenes, snowy water mills and covered bridges, etc . on 35mm, and figure

many of their usual ones came from the low bidder.  A day after a snowfall, they could

drive out around Rockville, Ind. and shoot an endless number of holiday scenes, same

in SW Missouri, Pa. Amish country, Vermont, or......?  And since they do religious ones, too, how about the Church of the Transfiguration in Jackson, Wyoming, and

others...such as the Viking churches in Wisconsin and S. Dakota after snow?  My

brother once said he was going to get married in the one in Jackson Hole.  He didn't.