Postal Card Great Britian & Ireland?

I've yet to even think about international collecting... can anyone help id this one oddity in my postal card collection.

Thanks.

Hi bfranton

Your card by itself is an ordinary one as well as the London cancellation.

However, the receiver cancellation appears to be a 'carrier' cancellation used to verify delivery to the address on front. I am not a US postal historian but I think that the "C" in the duplex cancellation was for the carrier??

Cannot really put an estimated value on this, sorry.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Here's a bit of interesting history concerning your post card:

"Almost from its inception postcard publication was caught up in the politically reality of British rule in Ireland. As a result of an international agreement concerning the delivery of mail between countries, the Post Office printed its first foreign destination postcard on 1 April 1879. This was a buff coloured, embossed postcard, longer than the official inland card, with the Words - 'Union Postale Universale' printed top centre. Below this was printed 'Great Britain', then 'Grande Bretagne', and below this the words 'Post Card'. Irate Irish Unionists immediately informed the Postmaster General that there was no such political entity as 'Great Britain'; forcing him to reprint the cards with the legend - 'Great Britain and Ireland'."

The whole article can be found in this link:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/readi...-postcard-1/

of course, I ended up with the ordinary one, not the "nicer"... But, still, fascinating to learn these little sniblets of history