Any Interest In World Postal Stationery?

GregAlex:

Here is an example of a used Portugal Postal Card with the cancellation in the circle. Hope this helps.

Here is a scan of several Pakistan Prisoner of War formular aerogrammes. Do not know much more about them, other than they are interesting. Perhaps one of our Pakistan experts can enlighten the rest of us.










My overall guess is that there were some (or all) of the camp type cancels. No specific camps are indicated. Oh well, they are interesting.

These were handstamped for use for PoWs captured during and after the III Indo-Pakistan War 1971, each type being applied at different places.

Confirmed recorded locations are,
1. Rawalpindi
2. Larkana
4. Dera Ismail Khan

The most ridiculous part is by March 1973, the free postage concession was withdrawn by Pakistan and such formular air letter sheets with Postage Free stamps were charged full postage.

Joy:
Thank you for your explaination of these POW cancels. Will note that in my collection. Thanks again.

I'm not a collector of such, but these (and others) were part of a collection that I purchased. What I don't understand is why they printed an off-centered 80 Reis on one of the Brazilian items.

A couple more. OK, so why did they have to issue two items with a value of 20?

And these final two, just because they look older.

For the Brazilian card with the shifted red-orange printing..."close enough for government work."

For the Finnish card: my old Norma catalog doesn't explain the two 10p images, but there is a 10p card of 3.11.1917 in the same color, but on a white stock. The 10p rate was only used for printed matter, and it is scarce in used condition. The explanation may be that they thought it was easier to just add the second 10p image and print the cards on a cream colored stock. Your first card, the 2x10p was issued/printed between 5.11.1918 and 11.4.1920 in a quantity of 4.98 million. The 20p card (Vaasa design, circles around numerals), was issued/printed between 23.4.1918 and 11.4.1920 in a quantity of only 204,000.

PoStat4evR wrote:


Not an expert here. But this style formula read "AIR LETTER" up until the mid-1950s or so, "AEROGRAMME" thereafter. So these maybe date to the war over Jammu and Kashmir in 1965.

Well, at least that one looks like a keeper. Thanks for the info.

Hi,

Three postally used POW aerogrammes from Pakistan:







Two are from Lahore and one from Peshawar.

I am not confident about the aerogramme with the Red Prisoners of War cachet.

Note the "NO UNPAID SERVICE / RETURNED TO SENDER" used from Lahore on 15 AUG 1972.

The Peshawar aerogramme includes "INCOMPLETE ADDRESS / RETURN TO SENDER".

Best wishes,
AndrewG

Hi,

A military aerogramme used from Pakistan:



The aerogramme was mailed on 22 JUL 84.

Best wishes,
AndrewG

1898 Philippines, Spanish colony, card with paid answer.