Bavaria year 1912 Poster Stamps Artist Franz Roth

Bavaria year 1912 Poster Stamps Artist Franz Roth

🖼️ What These Poster Stamps Really Are

📌 Poster stamps = Reklamemarken / Cinderellas

The items labeled “Bavaria 1912 Poster Stamps” are poster stamps (Reklamemarken) — they are:

• Not official postage stamps issued by the Bavarian postal authority,
• Instead, miniature advertisement or promotional labels printed around 1900-1914.
  They were produced to promote businesses, exhibitions, fairs, products, etc., and often feature artistic designs and illustrators’ signatures.

Poster stamps were a popular collectible around 1910, especially in Germany (including Bavaria), with thousands of designs produced, many by graphic artists and lithographers working for private publishers and advertisers.

🧑‍🎨 Franz Roth (Designer)

• “Franz Roth” appears in lists of poster-stamp designers associated with German/Austrian commercial art of the early 20th century, especially Reklamemarken and advertising vignettes.
• These stamps were likely produced by a commercial lithographic or print studio in Munich or Nürnberg for local businesses or events — not issued by Königreich Bayern postal services.

One example recorded in an online poster-stamp sales catalog describes a German poster stamp designed by Franz Roth for a shoe store (“Schuhwaren-Haus Carl Brechtel, Nürnberg”) — underscoring that Roth’s work in this genre existed, though such items are not officially catalogued as postage stamps.