--- title: 'Propaganda stamps: postage, poster stamps and forgeries, 1904 to 2022' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-stamps/ description: 'Propaganda stamps, 1904 to 2022: 22 postage stamps, charity labels and forgeries from Japan, Britain, France and others, tagged by technique.' section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a dossier collage of an evidence wall of pinned propaganda posters, leaflets and printed matter from many eras, with contact sheets and catalog labels.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-collection.jpg) Collection # Propaganda stamps: postage, poster stamps and forgeries, 1904 to 2022 Propaganda stamps, 1904 to 2022: 22 postage stamps, charity labels and forgeries from Japan, Britain, France and others, tagged by technique. 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Propaganda stamps [!["Julen 1904": the first Christmas seal (Denmark, 1904)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/denmark-first-christmas-seal-1904-640.jpg)"Julen 1904": the first Christmas seal (Denmark, 1904)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denmark-first-christmas-seal-1904/) [!["Vote Yes for Woman Suffrage" poster stamp, New Jersey Next Campaign Committee (United States, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-jersey-next-vote-yes-suffrage-stamp-1915-640.jpg)"Vote Yes for Woman Suffrage" poster stamp, New Jersey Next Campaign Committee (United States, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-jersey-next-vote-yes-suffrage-stamp-1915/) [![«Единая Россія» 1-ruble stamp (Armed Forces of South Russia, Denikin, 1919)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/denikin-edinaya-rossiya-1-ruble-stamp-1919.jpg)«Единая Россія» 1-ruble stamp (Armed Forces of South Russia, Denikin, 1919)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denikin-edinaya-rossiya-1-ruble-stamp-1919/) [![15 sen definitive stamp showing a saluting boy aircraftsman (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/boy-aircraftsman-15-sen-stamp-1942.jpg)15 sen definitive stamp showing a saluting boy aircraftsman (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/boy-aircraftsman-15-sen-stamp-1942/) [![Himmler-head forgery of the 6-pfennig Deutsches Reich stamp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/himmler-stamp-forgery-1943.jpg)Himmler-head forgery of the 6-pfennig Deutsches Reich stamp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/himmler-stamp-forgery-1943/) [![Ukrposhta 'Russian warship, go...!' postage stamp, denomination W](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ukrposhta-russian-warship-stamp-2022-640.jpg)Ukrposhta 'Russian warship, go...!' postage stamp, denomination W](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ukrposhta-russian-warship-stamp-2022/) > **Content note.** This page includes an antisemitic forgery of an Austrian stamp ("Jüdischösterreich", about 1920), wartime Japanese stamps that carry imperial and military slogans, and First World War labels that use the word "Kultur" in scare quotes against Germans. They are shown as they were issued, as evidence of what was put on envelopes. Showing a stamp is not endorsing it. [What are propaganda stamps?](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-stamps/#what-are-propaganda-stamps) [What were poster stamps and cinderella labels before 1914?](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-stamps/#what-were-poster-stamps-and-cinderella-labels-before-1914) [How did First World War combatants use stamp-sized labels?](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-stamps/#how-did-first-world-war-combatants-use-stamp-sized-labels) [Who forged stamps, and why?](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-stamps/#who-forged-stamps-and-why) [How did a state or army use its own postage in wartime?](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-stamps/#how-did-a-state-or-army-use-its-own-postage-in-wartime) [What did stamps carry in the Cold War and after?](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-stamps/#what-did-stamps-carry-in-the-cold-war-and-after) ## What are propaganda stamps? Propaganda stamps are postage stamps, and stamp-sized labels that carry no postage, designed to persuade the person who handles the letter. The collection holds 22 of them, from a Danish charity seal of 1904 to a Ukrainian postal issue of 2022. Some were real postage issued by states, some were sold by movements and charities, and some were forgeries. Explain moreShow less The archive applies one working definition to every issuer ([how FRAME defines propaganda](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/working-definition/)). Most stamps here carry the same tag, transfer: the borrowing of a flag, crest or national name to give an ask official standing. For leaflets, the other small printed format, see [propaganda leaflets](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-leaflets/). ## What were poster stamps and cinderella labels before 1914? A poster stamp, also called a cinderella stamp, is a perforated label stuck on letters that is not valid postage. ![Denmark's first Christmas seal, 1904: a purple label with an oval portrait under a crown](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/denmark-first-christmas-seal-1904.jpg) ![Two 1907 Sinn Féin Éire labels showing a Celtic cross](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sinn-fein-postage-stamps-1907.jpg) ![Norwegian 1914 label with a broken rifle and the slogans Down with militarism, Long live socialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/norway-down-with-militarism-stamp-1914.jpg) ![A 1915 New Jersey Next poster stamp: a costumed rider blowing a horn above the words Vote YES for Woman Suffrage](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-jersey-next-vote-yes-suffrage-stamp-1915.jpg) Explain moreShow less The Danish Christmas Seal committee issued this label in December 1904, with the postal clerk Einar Holbøll named in the record. Sold to raise money for children with tuberculosis, it puts a queen's portrait, a crown and the national arms on an ordinary charity label, so sticking it on a Christmas letter reads as a loyal act. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). Sinn Féin issued a pair of Celtic-cross labels in 1907 with the word Éire across the cross. Ireland was then part of the United Kingdom and the labels were not valid postage. The tell is the form: the sign of a sovereign state's post, borrowed by a movement that had none. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). The Norwegian Social Democratic Youth League issued this red label in March 1914. According to the labour-movement archive cited in the entry, the Post Office refused to deliver letters carrying it. The slogans are unqualified virtue and vice words, the tag any slogan sticker from any side would receive. [Read the technique: glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/). The "New Jersey Next" Campaign Committee of New York Suffragists made this stamp in 1915 for the referendum votes of 19 October (New Jersey) and 2 November (New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania). The costumed rider recalls an eighteenth-century messenger and borrows an earlier era's standing for a present-day ballot appeal. More: [women's suffrage posters](https://propagandaarchive.org/womens-suffrage-posters/). [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). ## How did First World War combatants use stamp-sized labels? Many combatants printed poster stamps in 1914 to 1918. The holdings contain French, British and Allied examples and no German or Austro-Hungarian ones, though the German side printed comparable series. For the war's posters, see [WW1 posters by country](https://propagandaarchive.org/ww1-propaganda-posters/by-country/). ![Allied war poster stamp with flags of the Allied states, each with a loyalty motto, and a portrait of King Peter of Serbia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/porte-timbre-de-guerre-des-allies-1915.jpg) ![Battle-honour label for the French 6th Infantry Regiment showing an eighteenth-century infantryman beside a First World War soldier](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sixth-regiment-campaign-cinderella.jpg) **Content note:** British WWI poster stamps invoking the Lusitania sinking, the execution of Edith Cavell and 'Kultur'; hostile depiction of Germans, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) ![Four 1915 Winox poster stamps: Zeppelin, Edith Cavell, Kultur, Lusitania](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/winox-anti-german-poster-stamps-1915.jpg) ![The Serbian Relief Fund one-penny charity stamp: a uniformed man with his face in his hands](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/serbian-relief-fund-begs-aid-stamp-1915.jpg) Explain moreShow less The issuer of this "Porte timbre de guerre des Alliés" label is unknown. Its flag-and-motto border includes Belgium's "L'Union fait la force" and Britain's "God Save the King". The flags stand in for any argument and attach to whoever sticks the label on a letter. The Italian flag suggests it was printed in or after May 1915, which is an inference in the record, not something printed on it. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). Éditions Delandre published this regimental label, dated about 1914 to 1917. It pairs two uniforms and a list of four battle honours so that the old regiment's prestige is pasted onto the present-day soldier. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). A British maker named Winox produced this block of four in 1915: "The Zeppelin Triumph", "Remember Edith Cavell, murdered October 12th 1915", "'Kultur' has passed here" and "Remember Lusitania, torpedoed 7th May 1915". The events are documented (the Lusitania lost about 1,200 lives; Cavell was shot after a German military trial); the persuasion lies in the labels "murdered" and scare-quoted "Kultur". No sponsor is named. [Read the technique: name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/). The Serbian Relief Fund of London issued this penny label, dated approximately 1915 inside the fund's wartime campaign. The caption "Begs aid for our brave ally" asks for a gift to a category of admirable person, not for a stated need. [Read the technique: glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/). ## Who forged stamps, and why? A forged propaganda stamp copies an official issue and changes one detail. The holdings contain four: three made by services of states at war and one by an anonymous maker. ![A genuine Austrian 80 Heller stamp above a forged version reading Jüdischösterreich on a cover](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/juedischoesterreich-stamp-forgery-1920.jpg) ![Two printings of a British forgery of the German 6-pfennig stamp with Himmler's portrait in place of Hitler's](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/himmler-stamp-forgery-1943.jpg) ![Forged Winterhilfswerk stamp booklet: red cover with the Reich eagle, a pane of caricature stamps and a back cover](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/whw-stamp-booklet-forgery-pwe-1943.jpg) ![A sheet of twenty red 30-centime forged Vichy stamps in which a second face overlaps Marshal Pétain's profile](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bcra-petain-laval-forged-30c-stamp-1943.jpg) Explain moreShow less An anonymous maker, not identified in the Commons record, changed "Deutschösterreich" to "Jüdischösterreich" on an 80 Heller stamp about 1920, so that the state's own stamp carries an ethnic-religious insult. It belongs to the antisemitic politics of the early republic, and is neither an official nor a party issue. [Read the technique: name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/). The UK Political Warfare Executive made this black-propaganda forgery of the German 6-pfennig definitive, with Himmler's face where Hitler's belonged, in two printings in December 1942 and April or May 1943. It suggested that Himmler was preparing to succeed Hitler. A memorandum of 5 April 1943 covers sending 400 of them (Ellic Howe, *The Black Game*). [Read the technique: false flag](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/false-flag/). Background: [British MOI and PWE](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/british-moi-pwe/). The same British body forged a Winter Relief charity booklet of the Deutsche Reichspost. The cover, eagle and slogan "Ein Volk hilft sich selbst" imitate the original; the pictures on the stamps are caricatures. [Read the technique: narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/). The Free French intelligence service, the BCRA, produced this sheet in London between 1942 and 1944, according to the Musée de la Libération de Paris. A second moustached face overlaps the marshal's profile; the museum titles it "Pétain-Laval". The record has not seen a contemporary account of how the stamps were used, so the audience and the identification of the second face are inferences. [Read the technique: false flag](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/false-flag/). ## How did a state or army use its own postage in wartime? A semipostal stamp carries a surcharge above its face value. Wartime stamps could add a victory overprint or a slogan to ordinary values. ![The Denikin 1919 one-ruble stamp: St George on horseback and the legend One Russia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/denikin-edinaya-rossiya-1-ruble-stamp-1919.jpg) ![Japanese 10 sen stamp for 1940 with five fish above a jar and the slogan Hakko ichiu](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kigen-2600-hakko-ichiu-10-sen-stamp-1940.jpg) ![Two Japanese semi-postal stamps overprinted Singapore fell, one red and one green](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japan-fall-of-singapore-semipostal-stamps-1942.jpg) ![Japanese 15 sen stamp of a boy aircraftsman saluting before a flag](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/boy-aircraftsman-15-sen-stamp-1942.jpg) ![Japanese 10 sen stamp with a silhouette map of East and Southeast Asia and the imperial crest](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/greater-east-asia-map-10-sen-stamp-1942.jpg) ![Two Japanese surcharged stamps marking the first anniversary of the Greater East Asia War, one with tanks and one with a harbour](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/greater-east-asia-war-anniversary-stamps-1942.jpg) Explain moreShow less The Armed Forces of South Russia under General Denikin issued this 1 ruble stamp in 1919, with a Commons print-run figure of 6.2 million. St George, from the arms of Moscow, sits over the legend "Единая Россія" (One Russia). A patron-saint symbol and an unqualified slogan do the work. [Read the technique: glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/). The Imperial Japanese Ministry of Communications issued the next five, more than any other state in the holdings. For the setting, see [Japanese propaganda in WW2](https://propagandaarchive.org/japanese-propaganda-ww2/), [Showa Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/) and [the Co-Prosperity Sphere](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/co-prosperity-sphere-asia-for-asians/). Issued in February 1940 for the 2600th year of the imperial era, this 10 sen stamp sets the crest and founding-myth imagery beside the slogan 八紘一宇 (hakkō ichiu), roughly "the eight directions under one roof". The slogan names no testable aim. [Read the technique: glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/). Within days of the British surrender at Singapore on 15 February 1942, the ministry overprinted existing portrait stamps of earlier military heroes to make semipostals reading "Singapore fell". The victory is attached to the older portraits. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). This 15 sen value of 1 October 1942 was a definitive, so it circulated on ordinary mail. A saluting boy airman before the flag lends the prestige of the flag and the service to everyday postage. The stamp names no service or scheme. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). Published on 1 December 1942, this 10 sen stamp places the crest and postal name over a map the Commons description identifies as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). Two surcharged commemoratives of 8 December 1942, a 2+1 sen and a 5+2 sen, marked the first anniversary of the war. Commons does not say what the surcharge funded. [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). ![Crusade for Freedom donor stamp: skyline of spires, a minaret and a pagoda above soldiers attacking civilians](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/crusade-for-freedom-stamp-1951.png) ## What did stamps carry in the Cold War and after? The Crusade for Freedom sold this stamp to the American public in 1951 to fund Radio Free Europe. The broadcaster's main funding until 1971 came from the U.S. government through the CIA (RFE/RL); the stamp does not say so. The religious skyline transfers the moral weight of faith to an anti-communist cause. More: [Crusade for Freedom and Radio Free Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/crusade-for-freedom-radio-free-europe/). [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). ![Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp with portraits of Malenkov, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong before three flags](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/drv-stamp-viet-xo-trung-1954.jpg) ![Peruvian 2.50-sol stamp: a man with a staff and model oil derrick before the Peruvian flag](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/peru-dia-dignidad-nacional-brea-parinas-stamp-1969.jpg) ![Ukrainian stamp of a soldier in body armour raising a middle finger at a Russian warship](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ukrposhta-russian-warship-stamp-2022.jpg) Explain moreShow less The Democratic Republic of Vietnam's post issued this 100-dong stamp in 1954 during the First Indochina War, four years after Chinese recognition on 18 January 1950. It places Ho Chi Minh between two allied leaders and flags, with the slogan "Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết" (Vietnam-Soviet Union-China unity). See [the DRV and NLF](https://propagandaarchive.org/vietnam-war-propaganda/drv-and-nlf/). [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). Peru's postal service issued this stamp in 1969 under the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces to commemorate the 9 October 1968 occupation of the La Brea y Pariñas oilfield. The entry records that the International Petroleum Company and the U.S. government disputed the expropriation and compensation; those arguments appear nowhere on the stamp. [Read the technique: glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/). Ukrposhta issued this stamp on 12 April 2022, seven weeks after the Snake Island exchange it commemorates. The run was 500,000. Officials first said the garrison had died; the soldiers were later reported alive as prisoners. More: [Ukraine war propaganda](https://propagandaarchive.org/ukraine-war-propaganda/). [Read the technique: transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/). ## What is missing from the holdings? The 22 stamps are uneven. Japan supplies five and Britain four; the United States has two and most other issuers one. The holdings contain no Soviet, Nazi German, Italian, Chinese or Spanish Civil War stamps, and no official German or Austro-Hungarian labels of 1914 to 1918. German official issues appear only as British forgeries (see [Nazi Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/nazi-germany/)). The Japanese run reflects what Wikimedia Commons holds, not how widely each state used the format. ## Propaganda stamps and labels in the collection Showing 22 of 22 objects. [Filter the whole collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/). - ["Julen 1904": the first Christmas seal (Denmark, 1904)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denmark-first-christmas-seal-1904/) (Denmark · Dec 1904 · Transfer) - [Sinn Féin 'Éire' propaganda stamps (pair, 1907)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sinn-fein-postage-stamps-1907/) (United Kingdom · 1907 · Transfer) - ["Ned med militarismen - Leve socialismen" propaganda stamp (Norway, 1914)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/norway-down-with-militarism-stamp-1914/) (Norway · Mar 1914 · Glittering generalities) - [6e régiment d'infanterie battle-honour label (Éditions Delandre, about 1914-1917)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sixth-regiment-campaign-cinderella/) (France · 1914 · Transfer) - ["Vote Yes for Woman Suffrage" poster stamp, New Jersey Next Campaign Committee (United States, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-jersey-next-vote-yes-suffrage-stamp-1915/) (United States · 1915 · Transfer) - ["Porte timbre de guerre des Alliés" poster stamp (Allied powers, 1914-1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/porte-timbre-de-guerre-des-allies-1915/) (Transnational · 1915 · Transfer) - [The Serbian Relief Fund: Begs Aid for Our Brave Ally (1d charity stamp)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/serbian-relief-fund-begs-aid-stamp-1915/) (United Kingdom · 1915 · Glittering generalities) - [Winox anti-German poster stamps: Zeppelin, Edith Cavell, "Kultur", Lusitania (Britain, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/winox-anti-german-poster-stamps-1915/) (United Kingdom · 1915 · Name-calling) - [«Единая Россія» 1-ruble stamp (Armed Forces of South Russia, Denikin, 1919)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denikin-edinaya-rossiya-1-ruble-stamp-1919/) (Russia White Movement · 1919 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - ["Jüdischösterreich" forgery of an Austrian 80 Heller stamp (Austria, about 1920)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/juedischoesterreich-stamp-forgery-1920/) (Austria · 1920 · Name-calling). Content note: Antisemitic forgery: an Austrian postage stamp with the country name altered to 'Jewish Austria'. - [10 sen stamp for the 2600th year of the imperial era, inscribed 八紘一宇 (Hakkō ichiu) (1940)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kigen-2600-hakko-ichiu-10-sen-stamp-1940/) (Empire of Japan · 1940 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Japanese semi-postal stamps overprinted "Singapore fell", 2 sen + 1 sen and 4 sen + 2 sen (February 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-fall-of-singapore-semipostal-stamps-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Feb 1942 · Transfer) - [15 sen definitive stamp showing a saluting boy aircraftsman (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/boy-aircraftsman-15-sen-stamp-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Oct 1, 1942 · Transfer) - [10 sen stamp with a map of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/greater-east-asia-map-10-sen-stamp-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 1, 1942 · Transfer) - [Stamps for the first anniversary of the Greater East Asia War, 2+1 sen and 5+2 sen (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/greater-east-asia-war-anniversary-stamps-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 8, 1942 · Transfer) - [BCRA forged Vichy 30c Pétain-Laval stamp, sheet of twenty (London, 1942-44)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bcra-petain-laval-forged-30c-stamp-1943/) (Free France · 1943 · Transfer, False flag) - [Himmler-head forgery of the 6-pfennig Deutsches Reich stamp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/himmler-stamp-forgery-1943/) (United Kingdom · 1943 · Transfer, Narrative laundering, False flag) - [Forged Winterhilfswerk stamp booklet (British black propaganda for Germany)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/whw-stamp-booklet-forgery-pwe-1943/) (United Kingdom · 1943 · Transfer, Narrative laundering, False flag). Content note: Counterfeit Nazi charity stamp booklet carrying caricatures of Nazi figures, including a soldier with a smashed face. - [Give Freedom to the Captive Nations! Fight Communism!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/crusade-for-freedom-stamp-1951/) (United States · 1951 · Transfer) - [Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết (Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp, 1954)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/drv-stamp-viet-xo-trung-1954/) (Democratic Republic of Vietnam · 1954 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Día de la Dignidad Nacional: Recuperación de La Brea y Pariñas (Peruvian stamp, 2.50 soles)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peru-dia-dignidad-nacional-brea-parinas-stamp-1969/) (Peru · 1969 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Ukrposhta 'Russian warship, go...!' postage stamp, denomination W](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ukrposhta-russian-warship-stamp-2022/) (Ukraine · Apr 12, 2022 · Transfer). Content note: Wartime state stamp showing a soldier making an obscene gesture at a Russian warship. ## Related guides and pages - [Propaganda coins and banknotes from AD 37 to 2015](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-coins-and-banknotes/) - [Propaganda for children: alphabets, school stationery and youth groups](https://propagandaarchive.org/propaganda-for-children/) - [Union posters: strikes, May Day and anti-union propaganda, 1888 to 1989](https://propagandaarchive.org/labor-union-posters/) - [All guides](https://propagandaarchive.org/guides/)