Other Christmas Seals
There are nearly one hundred different lung associations worldwide that issue Christmas Seals. Many different countries issue their own Christmas Seals, as well as cities, states and territories. Green's Catalog, the bible of US and worldwide TB Christmas seal collecting would distinguish them as national verses local Christmas Seals. Many tuberculosis seal issuing societies are members of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, which holds a Christmas Seal contest for best design among their seal issuing members at their annual world conference.
Between 1937 and 1943 the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP) issued a variety of seals featuring the Nazi swastika. These scarce seals contain Christmas themes like holly, but no known connection to the fight against TB, and for this reason, they are not listed in Green's Catalog.
History has shown that most dictatorial regimes suspend christmas seals from being issued. This happened in Korea under the Japanese occupation, China under the communists, and Argentina under Eva Perrone.
Many other charitable funds were issued at Christmas time, often with Christmas themes, by religious organizations, civic and fraternal societies, patriotic organizations, sororities, etc., but since they were not issued to fight tuberculosis, they lack the double barred cross of Lorraine, the international symbol for the fight against TB adopted in the 1920's, and strictly speaking do not qualify as Christmas Seals.
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Famous quotes containing the words christmas and/or seals:
“The ninth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Nine drummers drumming,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 53–55)
“Social and scientific progress are assured, sir, once our great system of postpossession payments is in operation, not the installment plan, no sir, but a system of small postpossession payments that clinch the investment. No possible rational human wish unfulfilled. A man with a salary of fifty dollars a week can start payments on a Rolls-Royce, the Waldorf-Astoria, or a troupe of trained seals if he so desires.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)