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title: '"Porte timbre de guerre des Alliés" poster stamp (Allied powers, 1914-1915)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/porte-timbre-de-guerre-des-allies-1915/
description: A perforated colour label with a white central panel reading 'Porte timbre de guerre des Alliés', framed by the flags of the Allied states, each with a…
section: Collection
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# "Porte timbre de guerre des Alliés" poster stamp (Allied powers, 1914-1915)

A perforated colour label with a white central panel reading 'Porte timbre de guerre des Alliés', framed by the flags of the Allied states, each with a loyalty motto, and below them an oval portrait of King Peter of Serbia between the Serbian and Italian flags, dated 1914 and 1915. The tell is the flag-and-motto border: the emblems of several states stand in for any argument and are meant to attach to whoever sticks the label on a letter.

- **Date:** 1915
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** Unknown publisher (French-language Allied-cause poster stamp, issuer not named on the label)
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Transnational](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=transnational)
- **Medium:** [Stamp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=stamp)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [No single regime or leader](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=none)
- **Leader:** [No single regime or leader](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=none)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Europeana 1914-1918 (user contribution)](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2020601/https___1914_1918_europeana_eu_contributions_21923), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY-SA 3.0 (Europeana 1914-1918 contribution); underlying 1915 print Europeana 1914-1918, user contribution 21923 (Cinderella/poster stamp for the Allies), CC BY-SA 3.0. Committed image is a downscaled copy.

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE
DIEU PROTÈGE LA FRANCE
GOD SAVE THE KING
PORTE
TIMBRE
DE
GUERRE
DES
ALLIÉS
DIEU PROTÈGE LE TZAR
·1914·
PIERRE 1er
·1915·
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
UNITY MAKES STRENGTH
GOD PROTECT FRANCE
GOD SAVE THE KING [English in the original]
WAR
STAMP HOLDER
OF THE
ALLIES
GOD PROTECT THE TSAR
·1914·
PETER I
·1915·
```

The left-hand and right-hand mottos run vertically along the panel (left reads upward, right reads downward). 'God Save the King' is in English on the label.

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