Charity label
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A charity label is a label resembling a postage stamp, sold by charities to raise funds.<ref>Mackay, James. Philatelic Terms Illustrated, 4th edition, Stanley Gibbons, London, 2003, p.25. Template:ISBN</ref> They are generally intended to be used on mail, as a way of advertising the sender's support of the charity's cause.
Christmas Seals and Easter Seals are perhaps the two best-known types, although many kinds have been made.
While designed to look like postage stamps, they only rarely include a denomination, and never the name of a country. They are distinct from charity stamps which also include a charge for postage.
Charity labels are one of several kinds of cinderella stamp.
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Italy 1908, Messina earthquake charity labels
- Bombay Presidency War and Relief Fund half anna charity label 1916.jpg
India 1916, Bombay Presidency War and Relief Fund half anna charity label
- FellinCharityLabelRussia1916.jpg
Russia 1916, 10 kopecks War victims charity label of Fellin