Metered Postage From Around The World

Nice one!

GB 1d meter

Unfortunately, this one is undated, but nevertheless an old-timer from the U.S. using fractional postage (1-1/2 cents) and in a very unusual color ... ORANGE. In all of the old meter imprints I've seen, the colors have been in the reds, blues and greens, but this is the only one I have come across in orange. Seems a bit unusual to me, but maybe it was quite common back in that day:

A Few early US Meters

My earliest Surcharged Meter, 1932 on a very Strange Envelope that opens from the bottom ? The window is in the proper place, but the sealing flap ?



My earliest Meters, 1928

Nice ones, Stallzer!

Wt1 - The meters without a datestamp were used for printed matter mailings, and perhaps some bulk mailings.

My guess is that it was simply an error in manufacture of the window envelopes and the company (being ever so frugal) got them at a sizable discount (or perhaps had them re-made correctly) and the old ones were still put into use.

By the way, for those who don't know, Woodward & Lothrop was a famous Washington, DC Department Store (that even had a stamp department!) Here's an ad from 1964:

Here are a couple from my collection--Belgium and New Zealand.






Cheers, Robert

Nice thread started here. Myself, I have very few envelopes with metered mail. Mostly I have the meter cutouts mainly U.S. Here are a few, along with an old metered envelope from France.

2nd Row Chicago Meter #1776 is from Continental Illinois Bank (in use from 1929-1936).

3rd Row Cleveland Meter #8796 is from National City Bank. The interesting thing about this one is that the Meter Catalog (a work in progress) indicates an EKU date of 8/8/1934. Obviously, your example precedes that date by 10 months. I'm sure the people who are compiling that catalog would be interested in your example in order to document an EKU date for that Meter #. The catalog, along with a form to report these EKU examples, is toward the bottom of the page at this link:

http://www.meterstampsociety.com/library.html

Maybe not a world traveler and certainly not the most attractive, but this big old envelope turned 60 years old last week.





Sent from downtown Toronto to the town of Sharon Ontario, a little community about 10 km from where I live.

On the back of a postally mailed first day cover from Taiwan / Republic of China.

Great items and great thread all. I was wondering why I have all things crazy things I have a good sized box of these meters in them (probably in the over a couple thousand range) from all over the place. No organization to them as of yet, so I just grabbed the top few and here is what we have. Not sure the Hong Kong one counts.

Nice collection of meters. Actually the middle example in your last scan is quite interesting as November 14, 1972 was a rather late date for that old PB Meter indicia to be used -- in fact, it could be one of the latest examples of that meter type. By that time, most of the old PB meters had been converted to the more modern design as per the top example in your scan.

Thank you for that information Wt1. I have yet to even look real close at any of these and see there is a lot to learn on the subject. Oh boy more learn'in to do. And reading and studying and organizing. Yikes what about the stamps with glue? Where to find the time. I love it.

Decided to look at few more on top. Wt1, maybe NY was confused as to which they should use I now want to get into these more than ever.