Any Interest In World Postal Stationery?

Here are a couple more colonial postcards, from a couple obscure islands -- Madeira and the Marianas.

An aerogramme from Afghanistan:




The 25 poul stamp covers the picture of Zahir Shah, who was ousted in a coup in 1973.

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Here are 2 Russian items for your consideration...

Here is a nice clean used copy of (Michel # P125A) issued in 1931 used here in 1937 with some extra stamps stuck on for rate increase (I assume).




This second Russian item is a H&G # B-44 envelope. Issued in 1890,
used in 1897. Don't know what the upside down "R" means, maybe registered? Anyway
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A quick translation of "Einschreiben!" (at the top) comes up "Enroll!" -- so perhaps this is a reminder to a student to register for classes.

"R" surely means "Registered", because upper left is handwritten "Einschreiben" which means "Registered Mail" on German. That could be a rare handstamp... check it...

The postmark is "Varsava" on Russian which is Warsaw (capital and largest city of Poland)...

On the bottom of the cover is some note in pencil, added obviously by some researcher later... it looks that it mentioned "Poland" and something more... check it... could be of interest... just below the "Deutschland" written in pen... possibly those covers used in Poland have some extra value...

and the last thing... this cover was addressed to Alfred F Lichtenstein... could it be this person??

http://www.philatelicfoundation.org...ichtenstein/

Although he was American, possibly he was in 1897 on University or so in Germany...

in that case, that stationary cover could have some extra special value... :)

Thanks for your help on the cover. It is amazing what we can learn when one read the language! Thanks again.

Here are two versions of the same Swedish postal card.
The first (MICHEL P-101 - issued in 1977):



The second, same card with additional printing added to front (MICHEL P-101-I

I just received these in a collection of Ireland. Do they have any value?

Just received my 2 first Hungarian post card, ( 3 days Netherlands Canada, wow wow and wow ) Actually the post card are cheap, but I also ordered an Hungarian catalogue.

In fact, they are Croatian... printed bi-lingual... on Hungarian and Croatian languages... in the time when Croatia was under the Austro-Hungarian impery.

The first one have a postmark Jasenovac, sent to Zagreb. That could be a rare postmark.

Addressed to: Famous Redaction of the Fire-fighting journal (translated).

The 2nd has a train postmark I think ... Fiume - Zagrab...a line from Fiume (today: Rijeka) to Zagrab (today: Zagreb). Later from Zagreb to Wien.

Thanks Filipo you give valuable info I will quote it on the album page . They do have text at the back but no postal stuff on back so I can mount them on a page. I have no interest on what people was saying it's personal and I respect that

They are not personal writings... both them seems to written as a bussines correspondance. If they don't wanted to be read, they will use a closed postal card or envelope ;)

If you ask me... I will be glad that a 100 years in the future some will read what I have wrote rather than mount me in the album :)

Btw. I didn't mention, but most people here probably have heard about Jasenovac. It is a small borough in Croatia, but the most negative conotations it got in the 2nd Worl War, when there has been a most horrible Concentration Camp (like Aushwitz or Dachau).

Collecting covers and post cars is way much demanding than just stamps, you need to learn Geography, History, Language. I just started to have interest in stationary, I need to find the Higgins & Gage catalogue 1 by 1. I just spent $ 150 on a Philippines postal history book, and many books cost over $ 300. A stamp you just look in a catalogue and place it in an empty space in the album.

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ronv: Thanks for sharing the Ireland items. Cut squares make them a little more difficult to ID. There are varieties of the entire envelopes that make one higher priced over another.
The first item looks like a cut square from a postal card. H&G # 2 issued in 1925.
The second item looks like a cut square from another postal card H&G # 7 (1947) or # 8 (1949).
The third item looks as it came from a registered envelope. Number somewhere between H&G # C6 thru # C9, differences only determined via examinations of entire envelopes. The pricing for the entires is one thing, but the cut squares reduce the value a lot because of ID difficulties.
Hope this helps somewhat.