Any Interest In World Postal Stationery?

Here's a nice uprated Austrian postal card, mailed from Prague to Oxford in 1899, which I just got:




What makes it particularly interesting (and is the reason I bought it) is that it's correspondence between two important Indologists. It was written by Moriz Winternitz (1863-1937), a noted Sanskrit scholar who became the Professor of Sanskrit at Karl-Ferdinands-Universität in Prague in 1902. The recipient is more famous: Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), known particularly for his work in Indian studies and comparative religion. Müller was Taylor Professor of Modern European Languages at Oxford University (1854-1868) and Oxford's first Professor of Comparative Philology (1868-1900), as well as a member of Queen Victoria's Privy Council (1896-1900).

A few more for the collection:

Finland.


Turkey (Ottoman Empire).

Victoria. Not in the greatest condition, what with the toning on the right side and the bent corners, but the Foster's Lager advert grabbed me.

Oil Rivers Protectorate

Niger Coast Protectorate (same place, new name)

Austria: Offices in Turkey

Cape of Good Hope

Sierra Leone

St, Pierre et Miquelon

St, Vincent

I'm sorry, but imo the first postcard, seems to be issued for the Italian areas of the Austrian Empire (Lombardy & Veneto). Hence, the "soldi" value and the Italian text. Austrian posts in Turkey, should have the face value in "piaster".

I picked up a bunch of new cards and stationery recently and finally sat down to scan some. Lots of interesting stuff in this batch.

A couple cards commemorating the new century...





I like the paper on this Bavarian message-reply card





Here's a Swiss postal card with a notification from American Express on the back. Looks like 9 lbs. of copper coins are on the way and something else I can't quite read.





Lastly a card from Serbia, with an overprint. Does anyone read Cyrillic?

Here are some of my latest acquisitions

Grenada



British Honduras



Jamaica



South Africa



Holkar State official



Gordon

The Swiss card seems to indicate that 2 packages, or bags of copper coins weighing 9-10 pounds will be shipped from the German East African Bank in Dar es Salam.

Perhaps sailing from the port of Southhampton(?) aboard the S.S. Majestic on Dec. 1, 1909.

@GregAlex:

overprint,translated, says:

"Military Post" or "Feldpost" or "Field Post" as you like it.

There is a slightly difference in the spelling from the actual Serbian language, so I am not sure is that an error, or language just changed in the last 100+ years (VojEna posta instead of Vojna Posta today".

from the swiss card:

"Customs clearance at New-York requires several days"

some things are not changed in the last 100+ year...

2 more

East Africa & Uganda Protectorate



Sierra Leone



Gordon

A couple of postal cards from pre-war Germany


Modern Germany postal card with additional postage and commemorative cancel

Robert

Ascher's Großer Ganzsachen-Katalog 1925 and the Scott Catalogue both disagree with you. Austria originally used stamps of Lombardy-Venetia for their post offices in Turkey from 1863 to 1867, and they continued to use stamps and postal stationery denominated in soldi in Turkey from 1867 until 1886, when they started denominating them in paras and piasters. The card I posted is listed by Ascher as the first postal card for Austrian Offices in Turkey, issued in 1873.

Recent acquisitions

Victoria. 1 Penny orange. Horsham Victoria internal 26 Feb 1896.


British India. One and Half Anna blue. Bombay to London, England 15 Sept 1886.


Tasmania 1 Penny red, uprated by 1 penny. Hobart to Stevenage, England 4 April 1908.


Orange Free State Halfpenny green unused. VRI overprint.


Guatemala 3 Centavos brown unused.


Gordon

Here's a cute new acquisition that arrived today. It's a Japanese New Year's card (nengajô) for the year 2000 (Heisei 12), featuring Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy), Shunsaku Ban, and Prof. Ochanomizu. Since this is a mihon (specimen), it just has zeros in place of the serial number in the lower right corner. A normal card with an actual serial number would give the recipient a chance to win a prize in Japan Post's annual lottery, ranging from a sheet of New Year's stamps to ¥100,000 in cash.

https://bestlivingjapan.com/nengajyo/
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2....W2ZqZy2ZNE5

Some odds and ends I've picked up recently -

East German aerogramme


Papua New Guinea aerogramme


Polish postal card - one of the largest indiciums I've seen.


Swiss picture postal card of a postal card