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Anarchist stamp
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Anarchist stamps are postage stamps created with images of persons or events representing anarchism. Normally, stamps are linked to a country of national origin, for example through use of an emblem or a national flag. However, because anarchists generally reject the idea of the state, anarchist stamps represent images related to rebelling against authority. Anarchist stamps tend to fall into one of two categories; those that are actual postage stamps, and those non-governmental, non-postage stamps that were produced in memory of special historical events and individuals and sometimes to raise money for a political cause. For stamp collectors, some anarchist stamps are rare and considered valuable. Anarchist stamps have appeared in some major historical events, the most popular having been made during the Spanish Civil War by the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo. Stamps with similar anti-state messages have appeared within labor unions such as the ones printed by the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, and the International Workers of the World . Government-issued stamps with anarchist images have also been created recently. Illustrator and anarchist Clifford Harper, whose family had an occupational history in the postal service, designed Royal Mail stamps bearing the image of anarchist figures such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ("property is theft"), Oscar Wilde, Emma Goldman and Emiliano Zapata. Colin Ward, along with Harper also published a book in 1997 called Stamps: Designs For Anarchist Postage Stamps, containing an essay by Ward on the subject of anarchists and postage stamps. Footnotes Books * by Colin Ward and Clifford Harper * [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007B0OE4/ The Republican local war tax stamps, 1936-39 (Spanish Philatelic Society bookclub)] by F. Gomez-Guillamon 
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