"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
- Made by
- Unknown publisher (French-language Allied-cause poster stamp, issuer not named on the label)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Transnational
- Medium
- Stamp
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- No single regime or leader
- Leader
- No single regime or leader
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Europeana 1914-1918 (user contribution), 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
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·
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.
