The "Stamp" of the Cadillac 
[if any Database users can supply color images of the stamps
and FDC shown here in B&W, I will gladly add them to this page]

This is a regular postage stamp from the Principality of Monaco
(I don't have the original; this is a B&W copy}
Not a Cadillac, granted, but we all know that GM's Le Sabre [1951]
was the mother of  all Cadillac designs through the fifties.

        
Left:  a stamp from the Republic of Korea, depicting a Cadillac limousine of the early twenties
Right: a stamp from the Principality of Monaco featuring the 1906 Model K, "tulip-body" Cadillac tourer

        
Left:  This stamp from the Republic of the Maldives celebrates the first airplane flight of the
Wright brothers; they are seen standing, with Alexander Graham Bell, beside an early Cadillac landaulet
Right:  from the tiny Indian province of Nagaland comes this stamp featuring the custom 1934 Cadillac
V-16 town car (conversion from a limousine), owned by S. Pole explorer, Admiral Byrd
[ check it out in the "Survivors" page for V-16 Cadillacs, 1934-1937 ] 

              
Left:  this block of four from the Philippines features, in the lower LH corner, the rare Fleetwood
style #5825 town car built from 1935 through 1937 (only five units were built)
Right: blown up view of the same stamp [the singer-actress, Marlene Dietrich, had one of these]

 
From the Arab emirate of Umm-al-Qfwain comes this stamp
featuring the ever-popular 1903 Cadillac

        
Left: this stamp from the African nation of Liberia depicts a picnic scene in the early part of this century. In the background
stands a 1903 Cadillac with demountable rear tonneau.  Right, this one from the British island of Jersey, in the English
Channel illustrates a stately castle ("an Englishman's home is his castle", the saying goes].  In the foreground stands a
unique 1930 Cadillac built, in fact, for the Maharajah of Tikari, in India; it is one of just a handful of sixteens with RHD

This souvenir card incorporates the preceding Liberian issue

Here's a similar philatelic souvenir item

This cute stamp from the Islamic Republic of the Comoro Islands (an archipelago
in the Indian Ocean)  depicts the1932 Series 355 sedan for 7 passengers

          
The five blocks of two stamps, above, form part of a set.  They depict (from L to R) the 1903-04 Model A runabout
[Funafuti, S. Pacific], the 1916 Tourer [St. Vincent, Caribbean], the 1930-31 V-16 roadster - believed to be inspired by
the car in the former Harrah collection in Reno - [Nevis, Caribbean], the 1953 Eldorado   - first of a proud series
that remained in production until 2002 - [Grenadines, St. Vincent] and the 1975 Eldorado [Tuvalu, S. Pacific]

Philatelist James Yeaw corrected my lousy geography by placing the Caribbean islands of
St. Vincent, Nevis and Antigua in the Leeward islands or more commonly the Caribbean islands; 
The inhabitants of St. Vincent call all their small islands, such as Bequia, "The Grenadines"

Here are two blocks of five from the preceding series

                 
Above, left: from Yemen,  comes this pair of Cadillacs; the lower car is correctly identified
as a 1970 model, but the upper caption reads "The first Cadillac - 1904" (in fact, the first Cadillac
was built in 1902 and the car illustrated is the 1905 Model F!)  The block of  5 stamps (10 cars),
center, from Sharjah [Gulf States], includes the two Cadillac models shown at the far right; again the
artist has taken some license with the 1970 Eldorado which looks somewhat like the Olds Toronado;
the early Model identified as a 1906 car is, in fact, a 1907 Model M with folding tonneau

                 
Left, from Fujeira [Gulf States], one of the first Cadillacs (1902  - with 14-spoke wheels) overshadows
the year's Eldorado model; center, from Umm Al Qfwain [Gulf States], the new 1970 sedan takes precedence
over a brass era Model M with rumble seat; right, from Manama [Gulf States], the artist has taken some license
with the Eldorado, while a 1903 model, complete with picnic hamper,  putters  in the background. 

         
Left: from Ghana [Africa] comes this fine1949 model, identified correctly as a Cadillac Series 62 - 1949
Right: the Republic of Congo [Africa] issued this vignette depicting the bespoke 1957-58 Eldorado Brougham
[the image is too small to identify the brass-era car on that vignette; it could well be a Cadillac Thirty of 1910-11]

Many stamps illustrated here are known among philatelists as "wallpaper" stamps.  In an article in the 1982 annual magazine edition of the CLC Self Starter, the late Gene Babow explained how, in 1970, the tiny Arab Emirates began flooding the market with these so-called "stamps" to generate revenue for  themselves. After 1973, however, oil became a vastly more profitable source of  revenue! 

Between 1970 and 1973, 4000 different stamp issues were published in the Emirates, compared to only 360 in the same time frame, in the USA.  

         
Left, celebrating an American icon, this bulk postage stamp features the 1959 Cadillac fin. 
On the right, from the Malagasy Democratic Republic is this late model Cadillac sedan
(Madagascar is a large island in the Indian ocean off the south-eastern part of the African continent).

1955 Cadillac Series 62 convertible
The above stamp was issued in the first semester, 2000, by the French postal authorities;
it is one in a series of 10 such stamps with a face value of  1 or 2 French francs, all on the
automotive theme,  intended to encourage stamp collecting among France's younger generation;
other cars in the set include a Bugatti Type 35 racer, a 1950s FWD Citroen, a Renault 4CV,
a Simca Chambord, a Citroen DS19, a Hispano-Suiza K6, a Ferrari GTO, a VW Bug
and  France's unmistakable "2CV" (the 2HP Citroen convertible with corrugated tin body)

More "Wallpaper" Stamps

         
In the row above are some interesting blocks of "wallpaper" stamps.   The block on the
left was  issued in the Republic of Paraguay, in Latin America;  the car at lower left of that
block is a 1903 Model with detachable rear tonneau.  The unidentified block at the right
includes - lower left also - a unique 1934 Cadillac vee-sixteen town car.  This car is [or
was in the seventies] part of the J.O. Raben collection located in the Aalholm castle
museum in Denmark.  It appears to be a conversion on a sedan or limousine body ( I was
never able to get from Count Raben the indications from this car's body tag)

                    
I'm not sure of the validity of these gold-tinted items as postage stamps; however, the models depicted are interesting and
rare. The Zambian stamp, left, shows a 1930-31 V-16 roadster, while the one in the center and that on the right (issued by the
tiny Scottish island of Bernara) show, respectively, a rare V-12 town car of 1930 and a 1960 Eldorado Biarritz like mine

         
Denmark issued these stamps celebrating the Cadillac and LaSalle marques;
below is a block of four that includes two stamps of each series

          
The block of nine stamps, left (that includes the single stamp on the right depicting the 1930 V-16 roadster),
was issued by the West African island of Sao Tomé and Principe, a volcanic island in the Gulf of Guinea

The 1927 La Salle convertible coupe is shown on
this stamp issued by the Republic of Togo, in Africa

This one, depicting the 1933 V-16 all-weather phaeton [Fleetwood style #5579], of which only
8 units were built, was issued by the Caribbean islands of Turks & Caicos in the West Indies

Walt Disney characters celebrated
on this lookalike stamp, sticker

The 1934 La Salle convertible coupe is illustrated on this stamp
from the former Portuguese stonghold of Mozambique, East Africa

 

Thanks to Canadian enthusiast, John Giles of Ontario, Canada,
for sharing this recent (?) series of wall-paper stamps with us.
This series of wallpaper stamps forms part of the 100th Anniversary
projects of GM/Cadillac Motor Car Company
[ Remember, of the first Cadillac was built in 1902 ]

 

[ I have tried to show these in some kind of chronological order ]

        
This first block of four $2 stamps from the Caribbean island of Dominica appears on a filigree image
of a Cadillac ad that was published in the Saturday Evening Post on March 10, 1928; the illustrated
cars all are from the firm's own Historical Collection and depict the 1903 Model A runabout with tonneau
(red), the 1912 Model 30 (dark blue), the 1918 Type 57 Victoria (sky blue) and the 1927 La Salle
roadster (yellow and black), which is erroneously described here as the convertible coupe

        
This 20,000 cedi stamp (there were 7,650 cedis to the US dollar -
in 10/2003) is from the West African nation of Ghana; it illustrates
the 2-passenger coupe body style by Fleetwood for 1927;
the filigree ad used here was published in Country Life, in 1927

        
Another wallpaper stamp from the Caribbean island of Dominica; this one depicts
the Cadillac Series 355-C in V-8 configuration (Series 370-C was powered by
the V-12 motor and Series 452-C by the vee-sixteen); the car featured here is Fisher
style #259, a sedan for 5-passengers which, in V-8 configuration,  cost $2895;
the filigree image is of a factory photo depicting unique Fleetwood style #5599, a fastback
coupe built on the V-16 chassis  for the Chicago World's Fair, A Century of Progress, in 1933

        
This 45 dalasi stamp (there were 18 dalasis to the US dollar in 10/2003) is from the West African nation
of Ghana, located between Senegal (to the North) and Guinea-Bissau (to the south); it illustrates the
1953 Cadillac Coupe de Ville; I'm not familiar with this filigree image, which shows the rear clip
of the 1958 Cadillac models (other than the Eldorado Seville, Biarritz and  Brougham models)

        
Another wallpaper stamp from the Caribbean island of   Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis group);
the filigree image depicts an ad that appeared in Town and Country in 1954;
the car shown is that year's Series Sixty-Special sedan

        
This wallpaper stamp is from Uganda (...of Amin Dada ill-repute) in East Africa;
the filigree image here depicts an ad that appeared in Fortune magazine in August, 1955;
the car shown is that year's sleek and sporty Eldorado model

        
This one, is from the Caribbean island pair, Antigua and Barbuda in the Leeward Islands, located north of
Montserrat and Guadeloupe, and south of  Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Barts, and St. Martin; the filigree image here may
have been used in an ad of the time and depicts the 1953 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, the stamp itself,
however, shows an (unlikely) Presley-pink Series Sixty Special sedan from 1956

        
Here is a mixed batch, again from the West African nation of Ghana; illustrated are three (possibly even four)
cars in the Cadillac Historical Collection, including the 1941 Series Sixty-Special sedan, 1953 Eldorado,
1957 Eldorado Brougham (Al Hass' car) and a 1959 Eldorado Biarritz. The filigree image depicts an ad
that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on June 3, 1950; featured also are jewels by Van Cleef and Arpels

        
Another mixed batch, again from from the Caribbean island pair, Antigua and Barbuda;
illustrated are pre- and post-WW2 models, including what appears to be a 1937 Series 65
coupe, the 1955 Eldorado (from an ad that appeared in Holiday magazine for   May, 1955,
the 1959 Series Sixty Special sedan and an Eldorado coupe model (?) from the '90s;
the background image features an ad from Collier's magazine dated February 3, 1956

        
This third mixed batch, is for a country that is illegible (probably another Caribbean island
group); illustrated (chronologically) are a 1949 Series 62 sedan, 1957-58 Eldorado Brougham,
1967 Eldorado and another Eldorado coupe model (?) from the nineties; the car
featured as a background image to the block of four stamps probably is a 2002 model

        
This final mixed batch, once again from Uganda in West Africa, illustrates
four "modern" Cadillac models:  chronologically,  the 1979 (?) Seville d'Elegance, 
1982 (?) Seville d'Elegance, 1993 (?) Eldorado coupe and 2002 (?) Escalade SUV

This issue from the former Zambia [now Zimbabwe]
depicts the 1957-58 Eldorado Brougham

Stamp Oddity

        
John sent also this stamp block from what appears to be a former Soviet state;
it recalls the James Bond roles played by British actor, Roger Moore:
[ John has one of the custom cars from the movie, Live or Let Die ]

Stamp Novelty

This one forms a part of the USPS' 2008 "Commemorative Stamp Program";
it illustrates the iconic 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz

I believe this one was issued in 2009; it features the 1959 Cadillac Copupe de Ville

This B&W photo of a FDC from the Philippines
features a block of four stamps; the one in the lower LH
corner shows a rare sixteen-cylinder town car

        
Above three rows: various first day covers issued in the USA to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding
of Detroit on July 24, 1701, by the French adventurer, Antoine Laumet, aka Antoine de Lamothe-Cadillac

Sheet of commemorative 3c stamps

This first day cover from Monaco celebrates the automobile;
Prince Rainier, ruler of the Principality, is an avid car collector;
the stamp at top center depicts the 1906 single-cylinder Cadillac Model M tourer

        
Two more interesting first day covers.  At left, the first LaSalle, 1927
At right: the rare 1933 V-16 all-weather phaeton [8 units built[; the latter is marked:
at the top Cadillac V-16   -  La Cadillac V-16 and, at the bottom,
Fédération internationale de l'automobile - International Automobile Federation

        
This Cadillac tail-fin stamp is for bulk postage

        
Left: unidentified FDC which I believe celebrates 100 years of American automobile production
Right: First day cover for the new First Class stamp depicting a '59 Cadillac fin (March 17, 1995)
The cover itself illustrates a 1903 tonneau but is marked "1902 Cadillac Tonneau")

This one from the International Automobile Federation (also marked in French Fédération internationale de l'automobile) celebrates the Cadillac Model A; it features the 1903 runabout, a tail-end view of a 1960 model as well as an artist's rendering De Lamothe Cadillac's landing near Detroit, in 1701; the stamp is the Liberian 3c issue (illustrated above)

 

(résumé en français)

Dans ma collection "Cadillac" figurent également quelques timbres poste glânés par ci et par là.  Il y en a d'autres, mais je ne parviens pas à mettre la main dessus depuis que nous avons déménagé de Suisse aux Etats-Unis.

Vous trouverez d'autres timbres et d'autres envelopes du premier jour dans la revue annuelle du club Cadillac LaSalle Inc., année 1982, dont des exemplaires en provenance de la Corée, de la République des Maldives, de Monaco, de la Nouvelle Zélande, de l'Emirat arabe d'Umm al Qiwain ainsi que du Nagaland (si tu trouve sur une carte, fais-moi signe!)

L'article dans "Self Starter" signé de feu mon ami Gene Babow comporte également des oblitérations des villes de Cadillac dans l'état du Michigan, et de La Salle dans l'état  de l'Illinois, de même qu'une envelope du premier jour en provenance des Philippines.

Si vous en connaissez d'autres, faites-le moi savoir.  C'est bien volontiers que j'en parlerais dans cette page.