A number of stamp ‘booklets’ have been issued with oil company logos on the front and/or back cover, on advertising panes in the booklet or on the stamps themselves. For the purposes of this article ‘booklets’ include :

• booklets for definitive stamps are sold for daily use for the stamps they contain – and usually contain advertising panes.

• Commemorative booklets have text and illustrations relating to the stamps and/or the theme

• Presentation Packs have minimal text (relating solely to the stamps, no advertising and comprise a folded card enclosing the stamps

In compiling this list I have used booklets in my own collection, references in magazines and PSW 7. Not all booklets are listed in PSW 7, although some of the stamps with logos are listed (e.g. PETRO-CANADA, Suriname, Sweden - MOBIL) and there is some confusion : PSW 7 includes the New Zealand booklets under UK. Those listed in PSW 7 are asterisked (or the stamps where appropriate) although the New Zealand 1954 and United Kingdom 1971 are described here in more detail. PSW does not include many references to Commemorative booklets or Presentation Packs.

1955 (?)* 20x15f BP Energol

Australia

1995 Christmas Drive Safely and a merry Christmas

(definitive booklet) from BP

(on back cover)

1954* 4/- SB20 BP Petrol + Energol

(small 3d + inland) (on back cover)

(definitive booklet)

1954 4/- SB20a BP Visco Static motor oil + BP Petrol

(small 3d +airmail labels) (on back cover)

1956 4/- SB21 BP Visco static motor oil + BP Petrol

(big 3d + airmail labels) (on back cover)

1957 4/- SB22 Motorists of the right stamp use BP

(big 3d + airmail labels) petrol and Energol

1929 PUC 3/- BB25 "BP" gives you more and costs no more

1998 Breaking (speed) Barriers DX21 BP logos

(Presentation Pack) (on 2 photos, also Castrol on 1 photo)

1998 Breaking (speed) Barriers DX21 Castrol logo

(Presentation Pack) (Castrol logo on 1 photo)

1996 Tourist Trophy Irish Winners Castrol on front cover (Presentation Pack) + 60p stamp

1968 TT. Dreams Castrol on front cover

(Presentation Pack) + 25p stamp

2000. Racing Cars Elf on front cover

1925* Eco (ESSO) Essence

1968 2 SB226 ESSO

1955. 20 x 15f ESSO

1971(Feb)* 50p DT1

1971(May) 50p DT2

1971(Aug) 50p DT3

1971(Nov) 50p DT4

DT1 - 4 have 2 panes of stamps + ESSO logos on tabs :

Tear Off to ESSO for Action-packed petrols + 5 x 2 ½p

Lick battery failure with the amazing new ESSO Voltpark + 5 x 1/2p

1971 (Feb)* 25p DH39

(definitive booklet) omnibus

1971 (Apr) 25p DH40

80 Years of British Stamp Books

1971 (Jun) 25p DH41

B type omnibus

1971 (Aug) 25p DH42

B type omnibus

1971 (Oct) 25p DH43

showman’s engine

DH 39 – 43 have 2 panes of stamps and ESSO logos on tabs :

Stick Firmly to ESSO the Action Station + 5 x 2 1/2p

In addition, each of the ESSO booklet panes from booklets DT 1 – 4 and DH 39 – 43 come with a variety of 7 perforation varieties – left-hand edge, between tabs and stamps, left-hand edge of tabs !

2000. Racing Cars Mobil on front cover

1954 5/- Mobil gas, Mobiloil

(definitive booklet) (= 2 advert panes)

1990 $2 Mobil oil

(definitive booklet) (front and back cover)

1997 6 x 1^st class Mobil flying horse

1929* child welfare Gasolina Corona Roja

(definitive booklet) (on front cover)

also Zerolene

1970. Jochen Rindt Shell name on front cover

2000. Racing Cars Shell on front cover

1996 Tourist Trophy Irish Winners 20p stamp and £1 MS

(Presentation Pack)

1996 Tourist Trophy Irish Winners 50p stamp

(Presentation Pack)

Two State oil Companies have issued Commemorative books, with the oil company logos on stamps and elsewhere in the booklet. At the time of its formation in 1975, the Canadian company was known in some quarters as Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Rip Off, and reflected concern at rising prices of oil (i.e. OPEC) and increased political involvement in non-OPEC countries.

An item from Gibbons Stamp Monthly in October 2001 reports on varieties of the Petro-Canada stamp. The Petro-Canada booklet has 12 x 46c self-adhesive stamps. The pane was unusual in that the individual stamps were separated by straight die-cuts, wit a short zig-zag section in the centre of each side. This resulted in stamps from the booklet having one projecting tooth on the top and left edges, and two along the bottom and right edges. A variety was prepared to produce single stamps, with the die-cutting machinery adjusted to cut through the backing paper and that the die head was rotated 180 degrees – so that the stamp shows two teeth on top and left edge and one tooth on bottom and right edges. Reported quantities are one million f the booklets, but only 150,000 of the single stamps, most of which were included in either the JulySeptember 2000 Collector Pack or the annual Collection Yearbook.

2000 12 x. 46c PetroCanada

(Commemorative booklet) (front cover + photos + stamps)

1997 125,155, 2 x 275 Staatsolie

(Commemorative booklet) (front cover + stamps)

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