Etherist Crawford Long on a Cinderella Stamp

By founding the Cinderella Stamp Club (1959), editing their journalThe Cinderella Philatelist, and authoring their classic 152-page bookCinderella Stamps (1970), British brothers Leon and Maurice Williams popularized the collecting of stamp-like but nonpostal “emissions.” Philatelist James Mackay defined Cinderellas as “virtually anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by a government postal administration.” For anesthesiologists, one of the more interesting Cinderella stamps is this one (above) depicting the left profile of pioneering etherist Crawford W. Long, M.D. (1815 to 1878) of Jefferson, Georgia. This yellow-and-gray Cinderella was likely issued around 1940, the year that the U.S. Postal Service released its red-colored 2-cent postage stamp honoring Dr. Long. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)
Source: Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research