Postal Etiquettes And/Or Labels From Around The World

Love that New York - Los Angeles first flight cover.

Tony,
I think it wise you use "country of origin"
because sometimes etiquette designs are ubiquitous
and are only defined by the cover carrying it.

Your query on the lovely US label, being tied
to a US cover, would classify it as a US etiquette
until such time it was ever proven it originated from another country.

Your arabic label is unknown to me so far,
I have 6 or so of them, but I think one can discount Kuwait.

here are a few the top bottom two have similar script

Here you go, one for Rod.

Nice one 1775mac!
(don't you just hate it when they blacken out the name?)

Etiquettes were in their infancy here,
I have not seen that one before! good stuff.

A bit of fun?
(The 3d airmail)
These were issued in preparation of
the perth-adelaide air service, inaugurated 2nd june 1929
The internal air mail rate was 3d per half ounce plus normal postage.


check for a dot in top above frame in the middle,
roughly above the "R"
this then would be a booklet plate stamp.

If booklet plate stamp check for
"long wing on plane"

These stamps were printed wet
so shrinkage of paper depends on weave.

your stamp could be 31mm x 22mm
or 31.75mm x 21.5mm

Cheers

Here go two more for you. The C11 is one of my favorites.

Here's a couple from Malta. One is from the capital Valletta and the other is from a town called Zejtun which in my youth was a small village with less than a hundred people.

Are we including Registration labels in this thread Tony?

I though we had a separate thread for those ?

Hi Rod.
I guess I must have misunderstood something along the way. I thought this thread had been pointed out to me for ALL postal stickers when I inadvertently started another thread with similar stuff. In any case, I just searched for "registration" in Topical Collecting and nothing jumped out at me other than this thread.

I had thought we would put all kinds of etiquettes and labels here if wanted. I did not search for registration or registered myself. Sometimes there are more than one thread which is useful as different people search for different words. I am putting everything here. Perhaps someone could put a link to the other thread(s) here to help consolidate everything?

Turkey 1959
Etiquettes printed on the envelope.

Hi Tony, Puzz,
yes, there is no specialty thread on "Registration Labels" :(
there should be.
Registration labels are not etiquettes and are a collecting discipline,
or used to be, don't see many collectors these days, showing them.

Rod, I tend to disagree with your strict pigeon-holing of what is and what is not an etiquette.

But that is my own view and just as one collects art the way one likes, the collection and appreciation of labels or printings showing the handling expected (or choice of handling etiquette approved for) of a piece of mail is an individual choice too.

For me as a beginner and on his own to choose as he wishes I choose everything; the etiquette of affixing sticker, label, printing on instructions or writing on declarations of handling intended, to all be fascinating and worthy of my interest and therefore posting here.

Can't afford a lawyer (there is always a price to pay isn't there?) so I am defending myself.

South Africa airmail etiquette 2011
in English, Afrikaans and French

That's cool Puzzler,
you can call them cover bolts if you want to,
There is no real pressure for you, or anybody else to
confirm to any accepted verbiage.
However, may I suggest, go to an convention, an auction
or a meeting of more experienced collectors and list
your Registration labels as etiquettes,
you may receive quizzical looks.
It's like a "recommended retail price"
ask what you like, but generally there is an
more accepted form above others.

I got some stick a few months ago at a stamp meeting,
I went out of my way to be ultra polite, and queried
a talk by a collector who specialised in Cachets.

I asked was it accepted in stamp collecting to refer
to these as "Cachettes" as he referred to them, because
for 10 years I had been calling them "Cashays"
For the rest of the evening he was asking how my "Cachettes"
were going. He was obviously had been miffed, though he covered it
by pretending to tease.

Two lovely etiquettes donated from Ottawa Ontario,

(The return address label was a doozy, cannot post image
to preserve privacy)

The lovely Maple Leaf...



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