Help 4 Franklin 10 Cents 1912-14 Series On Envelop

Is this envelope with stamps for serios collectors or not?
Please see picture.

Someone has written PR on the 2 cent stamp for some reason...





Inside was a nice fishing lure!
I apologize for bad pictures and my poor language.

Best regards
Stefan

This is actually very nice. There was a period of time during and right after WWl that parcel post sent with over 25 cents postage was subject to a tax. That is what the documentary stamp is doing on the package, paying the tax. Such usages are not all that common, that's a nice tag. A lot of collectors would not mind having it at all.

yes nice indeed ! the yellow stamps are from 1917 perf-11, the precancel is a common one, but real postal history.

Thanks for your answers!
I have learned something and also know the envelop is collecteble.

How much could a fishing lure have possibly cost in 1922? To pay 25 + 2 postage and tax seems expensive, but perhaps lures were relatively more expensive then than they are today. Twenty-five cents back then would be $15-20 today, I would think. You could get a sandwich for lunch for a nickel. Five sandwiches today . . . . at least $25. So if a lure cost, say, $5.00 back then (to justify .25 in postage), it would be 100 sandwiches back then, so today??????

Anyone know anything about the history of the marketing of fishing lures? Stefan, can you show us a picture of the lure?????

It seems the Plant Rubber Company of Minneapolis was into a lot of various products of leather and rubber goods, including conveyor belts, fire hoses and auto products, including tires as well as foul weather gear (raincoats and boots, etc.) and sporting goods.

Here's a classic example of a truck they used back in the day:

Picture on the lure was asked for.













The lure was in the envelope and the envelope was in the box. The box has a dog as do the lure. I do not no why the envelope was in the box with the lure. Some line was also in the box.

Bought in a bidding in sweden, someone moved back from the US.

Thanks again for your answers!

"No tiresome wait with a Pflueger Bait" Doesn't really roll easily off the tongue, does it?

The package is for 6 lures.
Also the P is silent.

Pflueger still exists and makes rod and reels.

wt1, I love the picture with the truck you posted.

The truck with the comersial sign at the bars, the brick under the wheels. And the industry in behind.

Look at the open window in the front and the door.
So similar to house.

Really 1920 I guess! Thanks for sharing!

In German the P in Pflueger is pronounced, p + f together. It's not a natural sound for English-speakers to make, especially when followed by an "l" sound and then the umlauted u. So as an Americanized name, I don't doubt that it became a simple F and straight u, Fluger.

Thanks for the pictures, Stefan. And knowing that the package had 6 lures in it helps explain why it might have been worth spending 25 cents plus tax to mail it in 1922.

Thanks for the information. German is obviously not my primary language. My pfault.