Winox anti-German poster stamps: Zeppelin, Edith Cavell, "Kultur", Lusitania (Britain, 1915)

A block of four British poster stamps from 1915: "The Zeppelin Triumph" (a child asks whether Mother had done wrong), "Remember Edith Cavell, murdered October 12th 1915" over a firing-squad scene, "'Kultur' has passed here" and "Remember Lusitania, torpedoed 7th May 1915". The charge sits in the captions: 'murdered' and a scare-quoted 'Kultur' are the labels, on labels meant to be stuck to ordinary letters.

Date: 1915
Period: First World War
Made by: Winox (maker named in the Commons file description; sponsor not otherwise identified)
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: United Kingdom
Medium: Stamp
Issuer type: Mixed
Regime: Asquith Government
Leader: Herbert Henry Asquith
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Themes: War and the military, Home front
Event: World War I
Techniques: Name-calling
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (image credit: Templar Philatelics), retrieved September 29, 2026
Rights: Public domain (British poster stamps of 1915; Commons: PD-old, CC-PD-Mark, Copyrighted: False)
Winox, 1915, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Text on the object

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

[top left]
THE ZEPPELIN TRIUMPH
But Mother had done nothing wrong, had she Daddy?

[top right]
REMEMBER
EDITH CAVELL
MURDERED, OCTOBER 12TH 1915

[bottom left]
'KULTUR' HAS PASSED HERE

[bottom right]
REMEMBER
LUSITANIA
TORPEDOED 7TH MAY, 1915

The comma after 'she' on the top-left label is not clearly printed. Top left and bottom left are read from a 960-pixel rendering of the same file.