I like finding thing in used books and I like items with the Red Cross symbol printed on them. I found this Red Cross sticker in a 1944 edition of Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case Of The Sulky Girl. The book is a bit brown and I'm sure it helped the sticker with the start of it's tan. The gum on the front of the sticker adhered it, just a tiny bit, to the paper to the book and it never fell out before it got sold to me. When I found it there, the simple flexing of the page was enough to release the sticker, mostly unharmed. There are two dark stripes on the page of the book where the adhesive pressed on the book paper.
When I collected stamps I was particularly fond of the Red Cross stamps. There's a stamp from Belgium that's got a Red Cross overprint and a set of stamps from Albania. It's a specialist field in the hobby, here's a forum page, or 11, devoted to blood transfusions. There are lots of big pictures so that takes up a bit of room.
That's currently on eBay with an asking price of $23.95. Much whiter than the one I have. I saw another sticker that sold for 10 bucks and it was similar to the sticker I have. I doubt I will sell it, my relatives can toss it out when I die.
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