Any Interest In World Postal Stationery?

Formular airletter sheet from the Reserve Bank of Rhodesia to a member of the RCAF in CAnada. August 14, 1965. (Name blanked for privacy)





Next item a Romania Postal card sent from Bucuresti to Philadelphia
in 1904. Mailed March 12th. Received in Philadelphia March 24. 12 days transit time.





and finally for DC3 here is a maxi card for Sydney (Australia) 2000 Olympics... Front first, rear second









DC3: I will do a few more for you tomorrow night.

I've been doing jury duties in Catalonia since some twenty years. When faced with stationery, I have the following criteria):

1.- If judging Postal History exhibits, I accept anything that can be proved that has actually gone through "the mail", either by public (Post Offices) or private, from which we have a number, here.

2.- When assessing "country" or "classical" collections, I only accept those items originating from an "official" source, regardless of from which legality it comes, if it has a grasp of the territory or part of it.

But, that's just my view, for sure, there are many worthy others.

A very late item of postal stationery for the Convention States, and the only one (AFAIK) made on independent Indian postal stationery, rather than British Indian, from Gwalior:



And this Indore (or Holkar) State postcard nicely demonstrates the fiendish complexity of territories in the old Central India:



The card was used from the Sundarsi enclave, which consisted of half-a-dozen villages, administered by three different Princely States, Gwalior, Indore and Dhar. This card was issued by, and addressed to, Indore, but was cancelled at the British Indian Post Office in the Dhar State-controlled sliver of Sundarsi.

Interesting Cursus. That is close to my train of thought as well.

While I do not disagree or agree totally with the FIP, there are some items I would have thought would be stationery, but, now are deemed not to be. Too long and involved to get in to that but life goes on

Nice material showing here.

Chimo

Bujutsu

FIP : GREV Art. 3.3 para 3 - LETTER CARDS


Romania- 1904, Letter Card, Coat -of-Arms and King Carol I , 15 Bani violet on cream

Higgins & Gage, Postal Stationery Of The World Catalogue , Section 15, page 14, no. 11

Cancellation : GALATI 4 APR 914 CURSA III

This type of Letter Card was valid within the cities limits only !





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Inside correspondence

Tony,

I always enjoy seeing your Indian States material!




Just curious: Did you mean that this is the only one from Gwalior, or that this is the only one from any of the Convention States (and it just so happens to be from Gwalior)?

Kevin

Great posts gentlemen! Keep them coming. I am working on my CAnada items tonight, getting them inventoried. Inventories are a chore these days.

Kevin, AFAIK, this is the only Convention State overprint on an independent Indian item of postal stationery, which happens to be from Gwalior. None of the other Convention States needed to use independent Indian stationery: supplies of the overprints on George VI envelopes and cards must have been sufficient.

This is the George VI envelope the Gwalior was replacing:



Gwalior postal stationery is immensely complex. Ed Deschl, in his Comprehensive India States Postal Stationery Listing devotes 22 pages to it, and I gather from the experts that that is really only a relatively simplified list ...

Of course, Gwalior was the only Convention State to run out of the 'official' overprints on stamps, made at the Nasik Security Printers, and have to do its own local overprints:

I definitely like the older paper over the modern stuff. Just seems to have more character.

Germany Post Card



Issued by Nazi regime on 29.01.1934 to commemorate one year since Hitler was elected Chancellor of the Reich.

On left side The Brandenburg Gate and Nazi Army parade on the day of Chancellor's election. On the printed stamp : Reich President Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler

Romania - The Scout World Day - 22 February



Baden Powel on the printed stamp

On left side , Romanian Scouts visiting Baden Powel Museum in Gilwell Park, London, UK.

Romania - UPU Post Cards



1894 UPU Post Card with borders .

Higgins & Gage - Postal Stationery of The World Catalogue, Section 15, page 2, nr. 29

Stamp DECE BANI Red in many shades .
Card same color both sides in shades of buff to cream.

The post card sent from Viziru village ( Romania )to Gorz ( Gorizia today )via Vienna.

Postmark of departure post offices : double-cerc VIZIRU 15 JUN 898 with postal horn ( this office was opened in 1892 ) , double-cerc IANCA 16 JUN 898 GARA with star (office opened in 01.10.1873) and arrival octagonal postmark of GORZ post office with date : GORZ 16 JUN 98 ( the post office clerk did a mistake by fixing the postmark year on "89" instead of "98" .

Abt Gorz ,today Gorizia more here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorizia

Viziru and Ianca Gara ( Railway Station ) were/are located in Braila County ( Romania)
http://www.comune.ro/?/judet/ijud8/

Romania - Picture Post Card ( Postal Stationery )



Backside of the card


FIP : GREV Art. 3

3.3 The physical form of the paper or card on which the stamps etc. have been printed can be sub-divided as follows:
...
3) Post Cards
....

A couple more items.
First: Aland Island Aerogramme 1999




Second item from Allenstein (region in Prussia, now Poland) Issued 1920 (German rule) Uprating stamp attached. Regular view of PC then close up view of stamps...

Nice overprint : COMISSION D'ADMINISTRATION ET PLEBISCITE OLSZTYN-ALLENSTEIN / TRAITE DE VERSAILLES ART. 94-95 on German Post Card's stamp and stamp to mark the Plebiscite which decided on affiliation to Poland of this City. ( today Olsztyn )

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/...om=&to=en&a=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstimmungsgebiet_Allenstein