Improvements relating to Postage and other Adhesive and Impressed Stamps, and to Combining Advertisements therewith.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Postage and other Adhesive and Impressed
Stamps, and to Combining Advertisements therewith.
I PETER PYNE of 5 Santley Road Ferndale Road Clapham in the County of
Surrey, Journalist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I affix a postage or other adhesive stamp to a slip of thin paper or parchment or
other suitable material. This slip may be of any convenient size or shape. On the
slip and around the stamp so affixed I print various advertisements which may be
printed to read in one position or variously or the slip may contain pictures or
portraits. The slip can then be affixed by means of Gum or other Adhesive material
on Envelopes Newspaper wrappers, Trade Circulars, Receipts or other Documents or
papers requiring an adhesive or other stamp.
This principle may be applied if preferable to Impressed or Embossed Stamps.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Postage and other Adhesive and Impressed
Stamps, and to Combining Advertisements therewith.
I, PETER PYNE, late of 5 Santley Road, Ferndale Road, Clapham, in the County
of Surrey, but now of 32 Craven Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Journalist,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention has reference to an improved advertising device consisting of a label
upon one face of which is or are printed any desired advertisement or advertisements.
On the same face a stamp or stamps is or are affixed (or the stamp or stamps may be
embossed) and to the back adhesive substance is applied. Such labels are advan-
tageously made in the form of an ordinary postage stamp but of larger size. The
stamp is applied in such a position as to leave a margin or space upon which the
advertisement or advertisements is or are printed. It is advantageons to perforate
the stamps and labels with initials or letters so as to render the stamps unnegociable
except for the purpose of postage or other bona fide object. In carrying out my inven-
tion I form sheets of any convenient number of labels as shewn in the accompanying
drawing such sheets being perforated after the manner of a sheet of stamps; A is a
space in the centre of each label of sufficient size to receive the stamp B. The entire
sheet of labels is treated with adhesive material at the back, so that each label can be
readily applied to an envelope, cover, or wrapper.
It will be understood that by my invention the rules of the Post Office are not
transgressed as no advertisement is printed upon the stamp itself but only upon the
label to which the stamp is attached and that by reason of the revenue to be derived
from the advertisement, the stamp can be advantageously sold to the public at less
than the nominal price.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described advertising device consisting of a label or perforated sheet of
labels having on one face a stamp or stamps and one or more advertisements and on
the other face adhesive substance as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 12th day of October 1889.
PETER PYNE.