Postage Due

Here's some nice postage due....

me want..

to go fly fishing, or did you mean you want the stamps?

Stampvirgin, Here's a few more for you to want...

We, in Australia, liked your Postage Dues too.

So we nicked your design. Hehehe

Check out the little Kangaroo and Emu on the green example.

I assume the US did not sue Australia for design infringement

I also like postage due, but much prefer when the amount due is paid using Canadian Christmas stamps, in period! If anyone has samples, especially for trade or sale...bring them on!

bfranton: in your initial set of photgraphs, what is going on in the lower picture? It looks like the postage due stamps are stuck on a lump of coal? Perhaps mailed, postage due, from the North Pole?

Don't know about the coal but it is certainly really gnarly paper. Can I cut it down?

S'more...

(too lazy to crop the airmails out)



No emus or kangaroos.

nice..
look at your documentary stamps,, see if any are imprinted 1914..

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...I don't think they did,
they probably didn't know.

B. I would not cut that down, leave as is, I am a big fan of leaving things alone, It is a wild guess, I reckon that may be a rare example of postage dues on a postcard?
I join khj, in that it looks like a postcard of a river,
fishing topical maybe.
The printed label may suggest a printed circular.

Postage Due Stamps on Covers

Frank A. Hollowbush, who has an extensive collection
of Postage Due stamps used on original covers, all the
way back to the first issue of 1879, comments that the
Postage Due stamps are one of the very few groups in
U. S. postal issues where the stamps are not listed as
used on covers in the Scott U. S. Catalog.

However, several of the Parcel Post Postage Dues are
given cover listings. Other groups without cover listings
are the Special Handling Stamps, and, of course,
the Newspaper stamps.

The Newspaper Stamps were not to be affixed to mailing
matter but, chiefly for accounting purposes, were to be
attached, as evidence of newspaper postage paid, to
special forms which were retained in the files of post offices.

Thus the nearest to a "cover" with Newspaper stamps would
be one of these receipts. I am speaking of the Newspaper
stamps in allegorical designs that began in 1875.

The stamps of the first issue, 1865, may have been used
on bundles of newspapers. I don't know but I have seen
copies cancelled with a streak of ink smeared across them
as though applied with a brush.


- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
October 13, 1935

US ½¢ Stamp Overprinted "Postage Due"

Bertram W. H. Poole, Los Angeles, recently showed
me a copy of the 1922-26 ½¢ Nathan Hale overprinted
diagonally in one line, in black, "POSTAGE DUE."

Mr. Poole found a few of the stamps in a lot purchased
from the estate of a San Franciscan, who had been in
the postal service, also a number of covers showing
the stamps used to collect a fee of ½¢.

He believes it may have been a provisional, hastily
made up and pressed into service by the postmaster
of San Francisco for a short time just prior to the issue
of the regular postage due stamp of that denomination.

Postmasters are frequently called upon to exercise their
ingenuity and improvise a makeshift when rates change
and there are no special stamps available.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
May 22, 1937

Here is an interesting Postage Due cover.

Following Ghana's independence on 6 March 1957, overprinted postage due stamps were not released until the following year.

The precursor Gold Coast postage due stamp has a large GHANA handstamp diagonally across its face and tying it to the cover.

It looks a little philatelic too me, but still interesting. Does anyone know anything about this?

Precancelled Postage Due :