Your Self Designed Album Pages

Since I can't find a stamp album that I like (or can afford) I decided to make my own using the Print Shop 20 program. It is a "type" album, I did not include each color variation or type of every stamp, just one of each denomination. Here are a couple of pages:











(I don't know why the first image is smaller than the other 2, I resized them all to the same size with photoshop.)

Located in Northeastern Bohemia,Pardubice was founded c. 1340 (!) and became part of Czechoslovakia after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918.

Personally I think the internet is a great asset to stamp collecting as a whole and postal history in particular. Here is a case in point.
below is a cover from the Austrian empire town of Leitmeritz, now Litomerice, Czech Republic, with a first issue Austrian 3k stamp. The blue cachet identifies one "C.W. Medau" from that town. I "binged" the name and got some hits and discovered an added dimension, a story, if you will, and added it to my album page.

Much appreciated.

The Pardubice Nov.2, 1910 postcard was posted by Engineering Candidate (=Ing. C.) Jan (= John) Trojan.

Did the 5-heller stamp indeed pay the postcard rate to Seattle, WA, USA? A card to Switzerland from the same period in my collection needed a 10-h stamp and so did postcards mailed to other European countries. On the other hand, postage on postcards addressed to Austria: Germany: 10 pf (from Germany to the USA: 10 pf as well), Switzerland: 10 c, Norway: 10 ö, France: 10 c, French Morocco 10 c, Italy: 10 c, Spain: 10 c. The postage on postcards mailed from the USA or Cuba to Austria was 2 cents then.

Are there any official notes on the address/message side of the Pardubice postcard?

Very nice.

Regards,
Stampalotapus

Great presentation!!

florian, please see my recent topic "Austrian postcard rates. etc"

The problem explained: this was a Printed Matter / Imprimé mailing benefiting from reduced rates. Thanks, owenthom.

I must correct my statement above about the postage on postcards sent from Germany (or Bavaria) to Austria around 1910. Having checked the items in my collection back home I found it was 5 Pf only. Also postcards from Serbia to Austria cost only 5 para while those from Romania were 10 bani - one tenth of of the gold standard monetary unit used in most pre-WWI European countries.