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I posted this elsewhere recently and it should have arrived at a new home by now.



Let's see what else we can find that is that little bit left of centre.

I picked up a couple of nice items today in a box lot at the Phoenix Auction No. 5. and will add them shortly. (I have to do a little research on one to determine the address.)

Bring yours on.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

It would appear that Miss GLEESON did not receive a packet addressed to her in 1917 at Sidelaw, in Waroona, Western Australia.

There is a very faded rubber hand stamp signature in violet of the Deputy Postmaster.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Wycheproof is pretty quiet these days, but must have been bustling in 1889 with 5 mail bags on the train, presumedly to Melbourne.

I have 2 others and one was sent on the 11.20 train. Mail may have been despatched more than once a day.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

This one appears to have been used in the despatch chain. The destination office was to be appended to the bottom of the form/tag/label.

The Post Office being a massive bureaucracy would have had a zillion of similar items. You must have some, bring them on and share them with us.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Here is an autograph of H.B. Lees-Smith, a British Postmaster General from 1929-1931

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Regards, Jay

Some random items


NZ Insured parcel receipt 1949
NZ Mail bag labels
UK Express label for PO Messenger
UK Parcel post receipt, 1972
UK Recorded Delivery receipt, 1979 (to Passport Office, makes sense)

Here's the front and back of a Certificate of Posting from Jaipur.

Here are a few Indian Telegraphs forms. The first one is from Jhalrapatan City in Jhalawar State.

Some more NZ items

1946 Certificate of the Issue of a Money Order.
Postmarked Wairoa M.O. & S.B. (Money Order & Savings Bank part of the Post Office)



1958 Parcel Post Insurance Certificate
1/- to insure for 12 pounds. Moturoa M.O. & S.B. pmk



1966 packing label from a bundle of that year's Health stamps mini sheets (4d Weka) with the receiving mark of the Postmaster, New Plymouth, 13 July 1966. The Day of Issue was 3rd August.

What a great idea,,
Now we can have a bit of a record of all these bits,n, bobs that everyone seems to keep.
and find out what they are,

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Nunawading Stamp Fair
Last Sunday of Every Month - Jaycees Hall Silver Grove - Nunawading.

Bilingual Air Mail labels -- English and Gaelic. I think these were issued around the mid 1970s by the Scottish Language Society.

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Tom Maxwell

This Letter was in a job lot of items.

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Donald.
Aus KGV Head Addict !

Muruk tells us - It is a customs declaration for 30 Gulden worth of textiles sent as a gift. Sent from Hollandia in then Netherlands New Guinea to Wewak, just across the border in New Guinea, with Vanimo as the only significant town in between. It is entirely possible that the sender thought of Papua as South New Guinea and New Guinea as North.

Hollandia had that name from 1910 to 1962 when it was renamed Kota Baru, then Sukarnopura and is now known to the Indonesians as Jayapura. Its West Papuan name is Port Numbai.

1961 would make it right on the tail end of being a Netherlands' protectorate.

I bought recently a complete PMG "Date Stamp Impression Book" from Burnie Tasmania and mailed it to a member here.

Each of the postmarks - indeed even when the hour slug changed within each day - needed to have an impression made in here, and initialled by the PM. Indeed often there are two initials on each strike.

In over 30 years of dealing I have never seen, much less owned one of these! I had no idea the record keeping was so intense back then. I be this has not been prodecure for many decades.

Lawfully acquired .. indeed as it is pre 1975, and precedes The Postal Services Act 1975 (when Telstra and AP were formed) it is perfectly OK to own, and indeed to exhibit.

Anyway, a most unusual animal, and thought I'd record it here for posterity!

In 1914 The British Post Office Engineering Department posted a remittance for "wayleave". Presumably the impression of the superintendant's 'crown' was
authorisation to dispatch the letter without a normal postage stamp.

The payment of telephone bills by the use of stamps has been mention on the board a few times.

Up until the early 90's you could pay your telephone bill via the use of stamps affixed to a payment card.

Any extra was refunded in stamps or cash.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

This was in an estate lot I bought and sold this week.

Had all the little denomination tab dividers down the side.

When I saw it, my heart beat increased a bit -- but alas it was empty!

I love this thread. Some awesome stuff above.

Any idea what they're talking about in the telegram?

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Collecting Mongolia; Thailand; Indo-China; Mourning Covers; OHMS.
My online 'store': http://stampsfromaethelwulf.blogspot.com/

Here's a 3 page Telegram from Buckingham Palace to The Provost of Burntisland in 1928. The provost must have written to wish the King good health after he had taken ill.

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Donald.
Aus KGV Head Addict !

Since we're on a telegram kick, here's one from 1927 Germany that I found tucked inside a mourning cover. Have also included the card enclosed in the letter, the message might be related to the telegram?

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Collecting Mongolia; Thailand; Indo-China; Mourning Covers; OHMS.
My online 'store': http://stampsfromaethelwulf.blogspot.com/

Found this in my stamp shop today, it folds into a neat little entire with space in the middle for the letter.
For those that can't read upside down, it reads;
"Limit Mail to Japan to 24 words."
Can you imagine having to write such a short message to someone you love but can't talk to?

Application for an International Money Order from 1960.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I've yet to see another like this:



Mr Levin's estate didn't amount to much - just a barometer and 7 pieces of Doulton china (all second hand)!

I still like the Tassie postmark impressions book!

Deja vu!

Glen, see 15 posts up this thread.

phrag, I suspect Glen is fully aware of that - it's better than him just typing "bump" and it will bring this to the attention of a few thousand new members who weren't around when it was first shown

This may be slightly off topic, but I found the tie in to be interesting.
As usual, it's funny what can be found in the "bottom" of a box lot.
Saw this and didn't think much of it. Saw it was done for the Scott company, thought that was kind of interesting. Then saw it was printed by the American Bank Note Company and thought it was a pretty good tie in to: stamp collecting and stamp production.
The one thing I wish it had was a year tie in (I'm guessing 1940's maybe ?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bank_Note_Company






Best to all,
pat

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"I don't have a lot - But I like what I got"

How about a mail bag



Cyprus Post mailbag and the seal:



I used to have a Royal Mail mailbag but used it for leaves from the yard

Here is a 1907 receipt for a Post Office Box from the Cape of Good Hope. The receipt is for a Mr Watts Herbst. The rental was for on pound. A rate unchanged for over 50 years.

Here are a few ephemera from my collection.

Order forms for Deutsche Nothilfe stamps.


1926 Coat of Arms Deutsche Nothilfe Issues -- postcard


1927 Hindenburg's Birthday Deutsche Nothilfe Issues -- postcard


1930 Buildings Deutsche Nothilfe Issues -- postcard


1931 Buildings Deutsche Nothilfe Issues -- postcard


1927 Hindenburg's Birthday Deutsche Nothilfe Issues -- A3 sheet front & back

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Presenting the GermanStamps.net Collection - Germany, Colonies, & Occupied Territories, 1872-1945

And a few more...

German postal advertisements for the annual Deutsche Nothilfe and Winterhilfswerk series.


1926 Coat of Arms Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1927 Hindenburg's Birthday Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1928 Coat of Arms Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1929 Coat of Arms Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1930 Buildings Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1931 Buildings Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1933 Wagner Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1935 Costumes Deutsche Nothilfe Issues


1936 Modern Buildings Winterhilfswerk Issues


1937 Ships Winterhilfswerk Issues


1933 Landscapes & Flowers Winterhilfswerk Issues

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Presenting the GermanStamps.net Collection - Germany, Colonies, & Occupied Territories, 1872-1945

OK, just one more!

When Germany lost its colonies during WWI it was left with excess postage from the colonies. In the early 1920s, the Reichspostministerium Markenverwertungsstelle, the office of the German Postal Ministry responsible for old stamp sales, sold these excess stamps with the proceeds going toward reparations payments.

These are envelopes from those sales.

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Presenting the GermanStamps.net Collection - Germany, Colonies, & Occupied Territories, 1872-1945

And a few more... a Deutsche Nothilfe order form and a couple advertisements.


1928 Coat of Arms Deutsche Nothilfe Issues Order Form Postcard


1932 Castles Deutsche Nothilfe Issues Advertisement


1934 Professions Deutsche Nothilfe Issues Advertisement

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Presenting the GermanStamps.net Collection - Germany, Colonies, & Occupied Territories, 1872-1945