Morse Code And Keypunch Tape On Stamps

International Year of Telecommunication, issued by Laos on December 15, 1983. Note the Morse code and keypunched tape on the 0.5K and 6K stamps, and Morse key on the 1K stamp:




keypunched tape on the FDC's cachet:

Acronym : PTT
Postal Telegraph and Telephone

Early Telegraph Stamps.
Bib: L'Estrange Ewen.

Means of communication, issued by Italy on September 20, 1979 to publicize the 3rd World Telecommunications Exhibition. The 170 stamp shows Morse key. Very attractive and unusual designs:

Agree,
A Century of progress, in 1 image.

Thank you, Rod!! and the old Telegraph stamps - one of the says "uninsured message"! and they look privately issued?

Eli, thanks for typical (and well designed, fun!) Laos stamps and unusual Italian!!

The Morse code on the first stamp from Laos says "A B S D E R G" if I use International ITU code reader. Then I used American original Morse code reader, it says "A B C D E F G"!!

Thank you very much! any information about Lao stamps is very important to me.

My last from Laos (well, until I will find more....) is this stamp designed by Ky Phungchaleun, engraved by Guedron and issued on August 28, 1974 to commemorate Birth Centenary of Guglielmo Marconi. It shows old and modern means of communication. I am posting it here since I think that the country name "Kingdom of Laos", both in French and Lao on top, is written as keypunched tape:

Very nice!! and also, there is a Telegraph key on the left hand bottom, I think...?

Norway
10 December 1954 / Centenary of Telegraph Service / design: J. Haukland
top: C.T. Nielsen (first Director) / second: Radio masts at Tryvannshögda, Oslo / third: Telegraph lineman on skies





and I tried to read... not very successful..

T E L E G R A F 5 or P?? E R K E T S


R J T K E R I U / E T S R J L ...???

+++++

About 20 minutes later - I noticed it was upside down - I turn it around for 180 degrees.


F Ö R S T E / D I R E K T Ö R - first director!!

Uninsured message.....no idea!

Hi Tomoko,
They list under "Stamp Issued Privately"
Private Telegraph Companies Stamps

The Telegraph companies issued stamps
for the prepayment of messages.

Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company
had a set of stamps manufactured, but as it
was sold to the Post Office before it
commenced business, the stamps
were never required.

L'estrange Ewen Page 143

Never had luck translating this one
Pioneer Life Morse Key
Sc#537 1972 60c


Pioneer pun, from "Where's Wally"

New Zealand 1962 Morse key and Teleprinter
Stamps made from ESPARTO GRASS and SULPHITE


Australia Early Telegraph advising Postal Mail Robbery

The two New South Wales telegraph forms, in all their fault-ridden glory!

They look darned handsome to me

Forms issued in GPO Sydney (NSW PMG Reports)
First
Higgins and Gage No1 (Barabara Hancock #N-T-10) 1894 8,180 Printed

Second Higgins and Gage No2 (Barbara Hancock N-T-11) 1894 1 Shilling 36,900 printed.

Stamps were occasionally cut from the forms to pre pay postage,
although this was illegal
(Notice POMC March 1895 page 139)

Forms printed in
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899

Exist Overprinted "Specimen"