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Trading Stamps: S&H Green Stamps and Rivals

Trading stamps were a shopping reward, not postage: retailers handed them out at the till, shoppers pasted them into books, and full books were exchanged for goods from a catalogue. They are gummed and perforated like postage stamps, so they often turn up inside inherited stamp collections. These pages explain what the schemes were, what the old catalogs offered, and what the stamps are worth now, with every date taken from a named source.