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Posted 01/02/2024   12:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Navalon to your friends list Get a Link to this Message



Thanks in advance!
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Posted 01/02/2024   1:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cjpalermo1964 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Let's be complete about the origin of this query, shall we? In an email message to members today, among other things, Mike J Y Roberts FRPSL, President of The Royal Philatelic Society London, posted the same image and asked members:


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Has anyone seen one of these?

On a completely separate and dare one say purely a philatelic note, whilst attending my local Harrogate Philatelic Society, one of the members produced an item, see below, the like of which I haven't seen before. Has anyone else? If so please let me know; maybe those of you with a "Cinderella" expertise.
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Posted 01/02/2024   2:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Thanks for the additional background information. The geographic area of where this was discovered may be an important clue (as well as giving proper credit to the query)..
Alas, it would also be helpful to have some idea of size, and the simple design and quality give the first impression of being very small, like something from a child's toy post office game.
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Edited by John Becker - 01/02/2024 2:26 pm
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Posted 01/02/2024   2:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add classic_paper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You beat me to it, CJ.
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Posted 01/03/2024   8:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Noocassel to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think a toy post office would have better stamps. Along those lines I would suggest a child with access to a sewing machine, a printing set and either stamps made from potatoes or a steady hand might have made a "stamp". When I was small I remember being fascinated by the ability of an empty sewing machine to perforate paper. Though my mum got mad if she caught me turning the crank handle of her sewing machine.
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Posted 01/04/2024   02:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
My best guess would be a label issued by a socialist party in Central Europe, i.e. proof of having paid a membership fee. The building looks like something from that region. PS could be 'party socialist' in some languages. That would make me think of Romania.

Another possibility that comes to mind is a rationing coupon.
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