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Here's another 1d Pink Embossed from GB Queen Victoria. This time with an advertising ring embossed around it. Looks like an employee began to address this then stopped for some reason.



Inside of the flap shows some nice advert details too

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Ahoj SA!

The faint postmark is STANDISH which is just north of Wigan.

Cheers,

Honza

Thanks Honza, I had a quick look in my postmark book but couldn't see Stand*** Should've checked a map

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GB Registered envelope from York to New Jersey USA, 1926 with 1d adhesive added. New York and East Orange NJ backstamps Mar 22 1926

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I bought this one from a Canadian dealer for US$1.50 as a postal stationery item. The fold isn't too bad.



What I didn't notice until I was scanning it this morning, is the CORK hooded circle postmark which is listed in the 7th edition of Collect British Postmarks at £15, but in the new 8th edition at £40.

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Look like an interesting thread have to keep my eye out for these on my trips abroad.

Micky

An example of a 2012 Japanese New Year Lottery postcard:

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A 1940 registered 4d Postal stationery with a 'six pence' overprint. 8 August 1940 Christchurch to Wellington.

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Organizing my postcard collection while browsing the board this evening, and came across a postcard I know nothing about, but does appear to be a form of postal stationery. As I recall, I got this in a book-themed swap on Postcrossing. I'm guessing it's a short parade of literary characters with Pinocchio carrying a book, bringing up the rear.

USSR 1961:

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1 September is Knowledge Day in Russia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Day

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Thank you very much! It being sent (or at least written) Aug. 31 makes it even better. The more I look at it, the more I like it.

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Virgin Islands - Specimen Overprint

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GB QV registered cover, with number '2' inverted in the date plug.

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GB 1d red postpaid envelope sent from London to Belfast in 1917

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Good day to you.

A blue triangle air mail letter from RAF personnel in India
to UK January 1945


Regards

Feebletodix

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This one presents one of those dilemmas - is it really postal stationery if there is no imprinted stamp? Collect British Postal Stationery excludes unpaid items because they are private (commercial) productions (often pictorial) sold to have a stamp affixed. But it may be that some postal authorities sold aerogrammes with no imprinted stamp, in which case they are official but not pre-paid. And this one may have been printed by the military authorities (approved by the postal authorities).

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Yeah wot Ian rote.

Seriuosly though I had not considered it to be anything but stationary because there is a note on the reverse stating for use of HM Forces only. I will scan later, and if anyone is interested the inside.

Regards

Feebletodix

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Dammit, just re-read that trype. Seriously that should read 'official' stationary.

Feebletodix

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Just seeing it's in the news lately...

Here's a 1989 genuinely commercially used envelope from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The DPRK is called "North Korea" in most catalogues that list it.



The 'stamp' - indicium if you prefer - shows the Hyangsan Hotel. The hotel is a Class A hotel in the Myohygang Mountain historic area. The building is a 15 storey, 228 room pyramid with a rotating restaurant at the top.

The badge at the left with a five-coloured flame supported by three arms is for the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Pyongyang from 1 to 8 July 1989. The slogan of the festival was "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship".

Four extra stamps have been added to make up the international rate. The envelope was used from Pyongyang to Wetherby in the UK on 25 June 1992 with three violet postmarks and a violet air mail cachet. "Oriental" has been written on it after delivery to get it to the right department - in biro unfortunately.

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The Pyongyang / Par Avion ink stamp is interesting too. I like it.

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Good day to you

and the back of the blue triangle


Regards

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Small part of South Australia newspaper wrapper ½d uprated with ½d adhesive to pay the rate to England.



Nyasaland Protectorate King Edward VII 1d Newspaper wrapper, overprinted SPECIMEN. Not too bad at the top, with gum intact, but creased at the other end (not shown).


Barbados registered envelope with 2d registration fee stamp on the flap - interesting this one has red printing, and therefore red lines (like Australia) whereas Britain used blue lines. (It will go on the registered thread as well.) Heavily foxed is probably an understatement.

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Postcard for use by the C.E.F. [China Expeditionary Force.] during what is historicially know in the English speaking world as the Boxer rebellion. As I understand it, the card came in two parts. However I have no idea what happened to the other part?



Huanga.

A few from Russia (A quick Google search shows "LTSR" is for Lithuania during Russian occupation; if someone could kindly verify ... haven't looked too closely at these)

Posted in Vienna.

Something seems to have gone wrong. I'll try again and see if I can get it up from Photobucket.


This is the front, now to see if I can get back into view.



Huanga.

A small cover from Gwalior, India.



Regards

Feebletodix

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GB postal stationery

The date is inverted and the post officer cancelled the "inverted" part of the duplex with a numeral cancel and placed the cancel with correct date next to it.

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norvic,
Do you think that the "Via San Francisco" was a ship or the city, from Cork to New Zealand?
pat

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Via San Fran. refers to the City on the West Coast of USA and is an instruction as to the route the item should take.

Asmodeus That’s a great 675 St Albans pair of postmarks on the GB ½d P.S.Card. Its not common to see the PO use a numeral to cancel an incorrect date in a cds but it does happen. This however is the first time in some 30+ years I’ve seen an example used to cancel not a wrong date but a date that’s been inserted inverted. Thanks for posting.

Ian sorry but I have to disagree with you on this one. True it is sometimes hard to define the limits of a Stationery Catalogue or collecting area but the Forces Airletter sheets such as the one illustrated are indeed postal stationery, and in terms of this thread a perfectly valid inclusion. The title of the thread is Postal Stationery not “official” or “pre-paid” or “issued by Post Office” so anything goes, almost.

When I first saw the Austrian envelope posted from Wien above I thought it should be posted elsewhere but in fairness the envelope is postal stationery all be it very plain with apparently no interesting features to differentiate it from any other plain envelope.

To add to the non-conformist stationery here is a Japanese postcard issued for the use of POW’s in their camps. This one printed for use by POW’s in Stanley Military Camp Hong Kong.



Interesting that it took over a year to arrive as can be seen from the reverse.



Cards to the camp usually took a long time to arrive but the one below never made it as world events overtook the postal service.

The first GB POW Air Mail cards were issued on 27 March 1944 with a 3d stamp printed. From the 2 April 1945 the rate was reduced to 1.½d and new cards were issued as shown below.

Between 2nd & 30th April the 3d cards could be exchanged at Post Offices for the new 1.½d cards.

I started this thread after seeing some WW2 postal stationery being sold (and heart-breakingly split up ) on Ebay. Your WW2 posts above just made my day, Sark, thanks for posting!
Look at what they wrote.... playing with words to avoid the censor, and knowing that what they write will be read by other people....a fantastic couple of pieces of history!

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The franking cutting from the prepaid envelop and then used them as stamps is not allowable by the law.

Are you saying that the 'imperforate' stamps added on are not from a miniature sheet but from other postal stationery?

If so it seems to have been accepted by the Post Office - Shanghai I think.

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Canton, actually

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Can anyone give an issue date or year even ?

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Yes.
No matter in Shanghai or Canton, it's not allowable, although it was stamped by post office.
It might be a careless work.

Not allowed and not legal but not so much careless as just missed in the high speed high volume sorting/cancelling machines. Here are two different ones you might think are similar in misuse, but are not. One is a cut out postal card, the other is cut from an imperf souvenir sheet. It makes the looking in 25 cent boxes fun.



I hope we're not getting too far off the original thread: so I'll add one I like even though I can't read a word of it (except the postmark)
Best to all,
pat

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Pat, I can add a little to your understanding of the Indian postcard. You have a little piece of an important North Indian trade in the earlier years of last century.

It was posted from Saugor (modern Sagar), just about in the centre of India. You can read something of it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagar,_Madhya_Pradesh Quite a prominent place.

The card was addressed to Sambhar Lake, an important centre of the salt trade, near Jaipur in modern-day Rajasthan. There's a remarkable number of cards and covers preserved addressed to salt traders at Sambhar. You can read some more about Sambhar Lake here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambhar_Salt_Lake

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This one from Shanghai arrived yesterday, with a multitude of 2011 adhesives; I think the birds are definitives as they are not dated.

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Grenada KEVII - SPECIMEN postal card:

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One more from India.

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Liverpool Spoon Cancel dated July 3rd 1856, Code 45, with 4 reversed.

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St Helena H+G 2 - 1d + 1d Reply-paid postal card of 1896:



The indicium shows a ship at anchor of Jamestown. A single and a reply-paid card were issued. St Helena would have no more postal stationery until the issue of a postage paid aerogramme in 1982.

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St Lucia 1d envelope H+G B1 of 1900.





The indicium is the Queen Victoria "New Antilles" keytype used on de la Rue printed envelopes for many, many, many British colonies. It had been used on St Lucian postal cards since 1883 and on wrappers since 1887.

This one is used from Castries, the capital of St Lucia, on 20 October 1901 to Barbados. It has backstamps of Barbados and St Annes Barbados, both applied on 26 October.

A pity that the top flap is a bit of a mess - but it is used to another colony, rather than domestically. H+G (Higgins and Gage) catalogued it at $5.00 unused, $15.00 used in the 1970s.

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Seychelles H+G B1 and B2. 8 Cents and 15 Cents envelopes of 1895:





The envelopes were both issued in two sizes of 120 X 94 mm and 140 X 78 mm. These are the narrower but deeper 120 X 94 versions. The rates got altered in 1901 so they would all be surcharged down to 6 Cents.

Rather than having a New Antilles Queen Victoria keytype design (see the St Lucia envelope in the preceding posting), they have a very impressive design of the badge of the colony with a giant turtle and a palm tree. No ship and less nuts than the revised version adopted in 1961.



The indicia have the value instead of the motto "Finis Coronat Opus" - the End Crowns the Work.

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Just for fun.
pat

Rattlesnake Island Local Post (per Wikipedia)

The island operates the only USPS-sanctioned local post operating in the United States.[6]

Service is provided by way of a Ford Trimotor which shuttles mail between the island and the mainland. From 1966 to 1989, USPS mail was routed by way of Port Clinton, Ohio. Today, outgoing mail from the island enters the USPS mail stream by way of Sandusky, Ohio.

Local Post service began in 1966 and continued through 1989, when the island was sold and the new owners discontinued the service. It was re-started in 2005 and continues to the current day. [7]

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Marvelous!

I love the stories behind the stamp or stationery. Thanks for posting.

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Hi Gary,

Your Greek pre-stamped envelope is from 2008. If you do a search on Delcampe for Greece postal stationery bell tower, you should find a picture of it.

Best wishes,
AndrewG

Here's one of Queen Victoria with her son together...a family get-together
A 2d blue embossed envelope heading to Japan with an additional ½d postage.

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