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Pillar Of The Community
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Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Privat-Brief & Circular-Beförderung (private local post)  |
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Alsace (Elsass) & Lorraine (Lothringen) under German Occupation Stamp Day 1941 The cards depict an 18th century Viennese postman  |
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Edited by vayolene - 03/22/2023 08:42 am |
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Italy, 1895. This card commemorates the 700th anniversary of the birth of St. Anthony of Padua (1195–1231). I love that the border inscription is in Latin rather than Modern Italian.  Kristianssund, Norway: Kristianssunds Bypost (private local post).  |
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Orange Free State (British occupation), 1900. Some catalogs (e.g., Ascher) list this overprinted card as an Orange River Colony issue, but the region occupied by the British in the Second Boer War wasn't named the Orange River Colony until later in the year.  |
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I just got a few more cards from German private local posts. Bochum: Privat-Post für Bochum  Halle an der Saale: Briefbeförderung Courier  Wiesbaden: Wiesbadener Privat-Stadtpost  |
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These are great additions, Erilaz!
There were a great many U.S. private carriers in the 19th century. Did any of them issue postal stationery? |
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Edited by GregAlex - 08/23/2023 3:14 pm |
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The "Local Stamps" section in Scott's Specialized lists a fair amount of postal stationery. Only two of those carriers appear to have issued postal cards, though. One was Boyd's in New York, but their cards were used primarily for bank notices and apparently not for general correspondence. The CV for the least expensive of Boyd's cards is $75 mint. The other was the Mercantile Library Association, also in New York, but the surviving card is unique, with a CV of $2500. |
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