Any Interest In World Postal Stationery?

New South Wales

2 cent franking for sending a postal card to the United Kingdom by the long sea route.



Detail of the franking.



The one thing I haven't been able to make sense of is, what stamp did NSW issue in 1838 if it is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the postage stamp? The first ones show up in the catalog in 1850.

That's a ripper Smauggie!
I've never seen one before.

I like it, too! Apparently their first stamp was circular!

NSW 1838

From Stanley Gibbons catalogue - Pt.1 British Commonwealth:

Embossed letter sheets and envelopes. From 1 November 1838 the Sydney G.P.O. supplied envelopes and letter sheets pre-stamped with an albino embossing, at 1½d each or 1s 3d per dozen. From January 1841 the price was reduced to 1s per dozen and later the public were able to present their own stationery for embossing. The circular design measures approximately 29 mm in diameter and examples are known on laid or wove paper of varying colours. Embossing continued until 1 May 1852 after which the Post Office refused to carry mail which was not franked with postage stamps.

Thank you gentlemen!

A couple of Bulgarian postal cards... 2 on the right side are military ones... with the Skopje (today in Republic of Macedonia) postmark...

Pre stamped USSR commemorative cover up valued to pay for registration
fee:

1939 Switzerland postal card with military stamps tied on.

I have been playing in my stationery stacks again and have found a few GB items to share with the group. Forgive me if I have previously listed these on the group.

The first is a UK regular envelope issued to commemorate the "Jubilee in 1890. It is a really fancy job and well done. Inside is the card shown below the envelope. H&G # B-10:



Next are a few of the "printed to private order" labels the GPO puts out. There are a bunch of these out there, and someday I will find a catalog of them (!) Ha. Enjoy:




Lastly, a "Printed to private order" envelope:



That is enough for this time. If any interest I can scan a bunch of GB stuff for inclusion. Enjoy!

I really like the 1890 P.O. Jubilee issue -- I have that one also, but it does not have the card insert. Thanks for posting!

Here is something that is "slightly" off topic. There is a region of collectibles that most philatelists do not even know about. INTERNATIONAL REPLY COUPONS ! These are prepaid postal cost that one could send to whomever to cover the cost of the return postage. Amateur radio people used a bunch of them! any other folks used them as well. Some catalogs list these in the back pages. The post office of origin postmarked the first empty hole (sending) and the receiving post office stamped the second whole (receiving). Finding these with both stamped spots indicate they were cancelled but some reason or another the PO gave them back to the bearer (?).
The first is one of the last devices (even has hologram technology) on it. Some countries around the world still use them (the US does NOT however).
The next batch of 3 are some of the left over ones I had never send t, and one from a foreign country sent to pay return postage to him.

OK, enough of my rambling. These are kinda "Postal Stationery" but not the kind that gets much action.

Here is a Belgium Postal Card. This is listed in both Higgins & Gage and Michel (among others) under "Special Picture Postal Cards".
These cards were sold to passengers on the steamers operating between Ostende, Belgium & Dover, England. There are probably somewhere between 50 and 100 different cards (or so it appears). Don't see a lot of them floating around however.
Front shown first and rear shown second
H&G SP 10, Michel PC-10. Issued 1910.
Enjoy



"Jan Breydal" is the name of this particular ship.

Thread has been running a bit slow this past month, so, without further ado, I have been sorting through a bunch of postal stationery from our friends to the South, MEXICO, and have become impressed with a lot of their early items. Here is a post of just one of the items. It is a postal card (H&G #130) issued in 1923. At first I didn't think it was to impressive until I side illuminated the item. The engraving is busy and very impressive in detail. The photo shows what I am talking about.







If there is any interest in me showing more early Mexico items, add a post to the thread and I will do my best.

The embossing on that Aztec calendar is quite intricate, considering how small it is!