An Introduction

We're often asked the question, "What are Cinderellas?"    You may remember the fairy tale about Cinderella, the stepchild that everyone pushed aside.  "Cinderellas" is the nickname given to the stepchildren of stamp collecting, all those stamps and things that no one can find in Scott's catalog, and that no one knows what to do with.  We've spent quite a few years bringing Cinderellas to philately's ball and guess what some folks are discovering ? What one collector thought was junk is just the specialty item that another collector has been hunting for years. Does all this sound familiar ? Simply put, if it looks like a stamp, or feels like a stamp and it's not listed in Scott's catalog then it's probably a Cinderella.

While that's a starting point, there's certainly a lot more to be said. A few years back we began to document what we could through a series of monthly columns. These are now being republished here. Some of the material discussed includes: