Question About Maximum Cards

Thank you, dsmith. It did not help much though, no clues as to why it was mailed in the US. The one thing you can see from the address side of this card is that this is an official Maximum card, issued by the Swiss PTT.

Peter

It being an official Maximum card issued by Swiss PTT make it more or less desirable?

As to the USA usage, I think someone just used it as a regular postcard. It does have a very old 2 cent stamp on it.

dsmith426, I do not know if the official Maximum cards are more desirable, but I do know that the ones I have seen are really very well done. As for the reason for the US usage, the writer could have just joined a club of horse fanatics or he could have just joined the ranks of the Maximaphilatelists!

Peter

Look at these maxicards from Transkei, a former Bantustan within RSA. They were issued in a limited edition of 250 each. Wouldn't be even more interesting and valuable a maxicard like that if the maxicard were actually circulated by mail, even as a "postcard" (not in an envelope), on the date of the creation/postmarking of that maxicard, or at a later date? Compare: 1)a maxicard circulated as a postcard; 2) a maxicard created with an already circulated postcard --> only a private collector would do that (not the post or a firm); 3) a maxicard issued in 250 identical copies, using a non-circulated postcard, as in the image here. Would you prefer to be the owner of one of those 250 identical copies, that never had a postal use through the mailstream?