Maxicards / Maximum Cards / Maximaphily

American bison. Non-traditional maxicard.

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US Navy SEALs non-traditional maxicard.

Giant panda maxicard, with my personalized stamp from Zazzle.

France 1965, Toulouse-Lautrec

Members opinion please
Do these qualify as "Maxicards" ie do they have full concordance?

Simply reproducing a stamp on a card, seems to me to be hollow,
similar to "philatelic covers"
The Jaguar (what a ghastly design) at least has a suitable Pmk
but the IOM with just "First day cover" fails the concordance IMHO.

These are "PHQ" cards - or the Manx equivalent. I won't venture a guess about whether they meet the weird and wonderful "requirements" of maxicards.

Thanks Geoff,
had to Google PHQ

The 'PHQ' stands for Postal Headquarters. All items published by the Post Office are given a number which is prefixed by letters. The first card issued, on 16 May 1973, was numbered PHQ1, and the numbering sequence has continued to the present day.

There are however two gaps in the sequence, and two duplications. The number PHQ24 was originally set aside for the 9p Silver Jubilee card (issued after the rest of the set), but when it was issued the card was numbered PHQ22E. The next set (Wildlife cards, issued 5 October 1977) had already been allocated the number PHQ25, and so the number PHQ24 was never used.

The London 1980 Exhibition card, issued 9 April 1980 to commemorate the 1980 International Stamp Exhibition, and the set of five cards for London Landmarks, issued 7 May 1980, both had the reference number PHQ43.

The set of five cards for Gallantry, issued 11 September 1990, and the set of four cards for Astronomy, issued 16 October 1990, both had the reference number PHQ129. Consequently, the number PHQ130 was unused.

According to the FIP (Fédération Internationale de Philatélie) Guidelines for Judging Maximaphily Exhibits:


https://www.f-i-p.ch/wp-content/upl...8.8.2019.pdf


Here's a maximum card from my collection that I really like. It features the runestone set up by Harald Bluetooth at Jelling, Denmark, popularly known as "Denmark's baptismal certificate":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelling_stones

Solved !
thanks erilaz Top stuff.

Legend (unsubstatiated)
The very first Maximun Card was made by accident, a tourist, posting a postcard of Cheops(Khufu), adhered an Egyptian Pyramid stamp, and had the presumed Cairo Pmk

Please read and enjoy this story with maxicards!

https://link.medium.com/GkAWf6ZZBqb

Norway 2024 EUROPA - Underwater Fauna and Flora
Harbor Seal stamp and maximum card

Sweden 1981 Swedish Film History
Cries and Whispers (1972) stamp on maximum card

Faroe Islands 2023 SALT - Sound Art Live Theater
Stamp on maximum card (Water Lilies, Evening by Claude Monet)