Obtained Pre Printed Stamps

I won a Facebook auction that said world stamps.

Lots of goodies to sort through.

I got several used envelopes with the stamp pre-printed on them. They look nice, but not sure if they have value, or if are they just a niche for collectors.

Thank you

Yes, they normally are very collectible. However, your example seems to be very damaged by the person who opened the cover.


Peter

Thank you. What should I be looking at for damage? I assume you mean along the edge?

niche: everything is collected by someone.

Your envelope would commonly be called "postal stationery". One of the Unitrade catalog #U169 types.

Everything has some value, although as noted, condition is everything. Your envelope has the appearance of being passed through an automatic opener, which typically trims off a thin strip of paper across the top, rather than slitting it open to retain all of the paper. It may also have some interest to postal historians who are drawn to rates, routes, postmarks, senders/recipients, etc., and tend to excuse minor faults/damage.

Ok. Now I get what they meant about damage. As this was addressed to a large company, and opener was most likely used as they open 100 if not thousands in a day.

As I said, I got these in a Facebook auction of a box of world stamps that I won.

Thank you for the information. Very helpful.

Try to convice any mail room to shake down the envelopes and slit along the bottom edge. I tried that once and lost. LOL

From the "postal histoey" aspect, I would retain it as an example of the Saint-Nicolas machine cancel, which has appeal to topical collectors. Who knows, it might be an early of late date of use of that particular slogan cancel there?

Sorry, not Canadian examples, but here are two envelopes I saved for their Universal Model-K machine cancels, typically from small to intermediate-sized offices. The first from Clay Center, Kansas, was cut across the top of the stamp, but from the era when many of these machines were being phased-out of use across the U.S. The quality of the cancel was too nice to discard.

And even worse yet, from Eureka, Kansas, but which serves as possible date-of-use data.


Everything is collected by someone!