Any Interest In World Postal Stationery?

ikeyPikey: Nice Madeira Island colony usage on the Portuguese item.

This is, like, s-o-o-o totally my smallest FDC.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Tonight, how about a couple U.S. possessions? The Cuba overprint postcard was issued shortly after the Spanish-American War. The Hawaiian cover came out while Hawaii was still a kingdom. I love the scene of Honolulu harbor -- I think that's Diamondhead in the center from a different angle than the typical view from Waikiki.

ikeyPikey - Thanks for your observations about the problem of language suppression.

I quite enjoy reading messages dating back to the days of my ancestors. Two of my great-uncles had been POWs in Siberia during WWI, one of them returning home via the Panama Canal, the other via Singapore and the Suez Canal.

As for the POW's address, the writer's daughter may have asked for it in her previous letter, so it was added without any comment as there was no more space left on the postcard.

Cheers,

Florián

I've always had a fondness for letter-cards -- sealed sheets that required no envelope and traveled like a postcard. The interiors were entirely blank for writing; the sender just licked and sealed the gummed selvage and the recipient tore it off at the perforations. They always seemed more efficient somehow, although they were still charged at the letter rate.

Here are four, from various points on the globe: Netherlands, Brazil, Monaco, and French Colonies.

GregAlex: Letter Cards can be a nice specialty collection within stationery collections. Most all of the countries used them for a period of time. Some countries in Europe still have a modernized version of these letter cards. Heck, the US even used them for a bit. Thanks for sharing.
PS. Getting used ones with the outer portion still attached after they have been opened is a fun challenge. Perforation varieties also exist on many of these cards. Good collecting.

More refugees from a bargain box at the ASDA NY:

- a pair of fresh MNHOG letter cards from Sweden, and

- an old, dirty, stained GPU (Genuinely Postally Used) letter card from the UK to Germany.

The Swedes will probably find their way to a UPSS (United Postal Stationery Society) circuit book some day.

The letter card Franz sent to Anna from Watford is a keeper.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Today: Germany after the WWII event.
First two East Germany (German Democratic Republic) items. First a modern postal card issued 1989 (Michel # P102) issued for a stamp show in Paris. I like the basic Red/White/Blue colors...




Next: a little older GDR (DDR) item. Their first Letter Sheet issued in 1957. (H&G # F-G-1):




The next two items are earlier, when Germany was controlled by the Americans, the British, the French and the Russians.
The first is a postal card issued under the British Occupation in 1945. This card was a blanked out Hitler item, with a new rate printed on the card...




Finally for this post, a occupation card from the Soviet Control period. This card was released in 1945 for use in the Province of Saxony, Halle Postal District...

Gosh, that's pretty.

To those of us interested in reading old German script, the above letter posted by ikeyPikey offers an excellent opportunity to practise on:

See also: http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Les...terlin18.htm

F(räu)l(lein) Anna Dorfner
Miss
Freiham Hofmansstr(asse)
b(ei) München Obersend
n(ea)r
Bavaria

Watford den 7. May 1909
Mein Lieb!
My Dear,
In Bälde wird es sich nun entscheiden, ob ich hier bleibe
It will now soon be decided whether I stay here
oder nicht, dann in nächster Zeit kommt der Doktor und dann
or not, the doctor will be coming shortly and only then
kann ich erst meine Dispositionen treffen, wenn ich weiss, was
can I make plans knowing what
der Doktor mit uns vorhat, vielleicht schickt er uns in eine
the doctor intends us to do, he might send us to
andere Stadt, wohin er sein Verfahren verkauft hat.
another town where he has sold his method.
Am Samstag den 1. Mai waren wir wieder in London
On Saturday May 1 we were back in London
und haben uns einen Teil der Stadt angesehen, denn da
looking around part of the city because
darf ich noch lange Jahre hier sein, wenn ich London ganz
I might well have spent many years here if I wanted to know
kennen will, nicht einmal geborene Londoner kennen es
the whole of London, not even those born right there know
ganz.
the whole of it.
Du schriebst mir, das wolltest zur Kartenschlägerin gehen und
You say in your letter you want to go to a fortune teller
sagst, ich werde darüber lachen; nein mein Kind das werde
adding I will laugh at it; no, baby,
ich nicht, Du kannst ja meinen Ansicht, nur bitte ich Dich, schreibe
I won't, but you know the way I see it, just let me know
mir alles, was sie gesagt hat, verschweige mir aber nichts.
everything she tells you, please, don't hold anything back from me.
In Deinem Briefe kam Dir auch der Gedanke, ich könnte
In your letter you say that it crossed your mind that I could
Dich zum Besten halten. O mein Herz, mein einziger Wunsch
be pulling your leg. Oh my dearest, my only wish
ist ja nur mit Dir zusammen zu sein, aber nein ich Dir
is indeed to be together with you, oh no, I have
schon wiederholt schrieb, muss ich erst eine sichere Position
told you many times already that I must first have a secure position,
haben, muss wissen wie sich die Zukunft gestaltet, dann ich
I must know what future there is ahead of me, then I
muss vorsichtig sein, bevor wenn ich Dich mein lieb nicht in un-
must be cautious before if I don't want to put you, my dear, in an
angenehme Lage bringen will und dies will ich vermeiden,
awkward position and I want to avoid this,
desshalb heisst es mit Ueberlegung vergehen.
therefore, this requires acting with deliberation.
Herzliche Grüsse und Küsse Dein
Lots of love and kisses from yours
Franz

Ab F. Hartung Whippendell Road 360
From

Well done, Florian! Is gTranslate correct? She wanted to go to a fortune teller? I would wonder if this were sarcasm or exasperation - eg, "I might as well go to a fortune teller as wait for you to declare your intentions towards me" - but, just a few years later, Houdini was making war on folks who would contact your war dead, so she may have literally meant that she was going to a seer to inquire about his future. Cheers,

ikeyPikey, those were the days of fortune tellers and seers visited by broken-hearted girls ...

Well then, he further says:
"In Deinem Briefe kam Dir auch der Gedanke, ich könnte
"In your letter (you say) it crossed your mind I could be
Dich zum Besten halten."
pulling your leg."

Cheers,

Florián

Composer cachets are easy: the music always looks nice, and its cheap, too!

Sorry about the LOTNICZA PAR AVION sticker ... dare I soak it off?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Seychelles and Ecuador

ikeyPikey: It is your card, but I would leave the airmail sticker on it to show why there are extra stamps added.

codexluminati: The Seychelles cover is GREAT! Syechelles cancel, Reunion cancel as well. Nice!