German Meter Mail??

Is this the equivalent of meter mail. Anyone know about these? Should I be holding onto it or using it for kindlin?

You should be holding on to it. Just like everything, meters have their devotees. (I assume that is what this is.) I think there might have been more to the meter, to the left what you have, but I don't know for sure...

I don't try to be encyclopedic with them, but I do like having a few of them from the postal-history standpoint.

If you want to get rid of it I am interested. That is one thing I don't have in my WWII collection. Just let me know.

Hi jhlovell

You might want to try here:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Intern...many,_Part_1

They are in 3 parts altogether and loaded with information.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Found it in that article - thank you Bujutsu

The Wikipedia article states, 'Germany was an early user of metered mail with experimental franking of live mail occurring in January 1923.'

I've got a German meter stamp dated 30.11.1922. This must be among the very earliest examples. It looks identical to the Bafra types this webpage states first appeared in June 1923!

I wonder how 'collectible' it would be.

Does anyone know anything about the origins of meter stamps?

Jimjam, Try these
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Intern...many,_Part_1
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Intern...many,_Part_2
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Intern...many,_Part_3

Thanks, Russ. That's actually where I found the statement that the first 'experimental franking of live mail' occurred in Germany in January '23. My example suggests the date actually needs to be pushed back a little.

This is the meter stamp in question:

Sure looks like Nov 30,1922. The catalog (website) was last update for 2008. I would try to send the scan to someone it could be a EDU? Maybe here Forschungsgemeinschaft Post- und Absenderfreistempel e.V. (Germany). Web site: www.fg-freistempel.de

Russ, I just wrote to the fellow who runs that site. I'll update this thread when I hear back from him.