Postcard heaven!

stallzer · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:58:51 am

Brummie wrote:

What about the Jun20 just under London, can you see that?

Yes and I can also see the "11" for the year next to it and it was posted at 2:_5 PM. but it is barely legible partly due to the stamp and the lettering on the Postcard.

Brummie · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:10:32 pm

Well they got in my way when I was trying to read the postcard :lol:

stallzer · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:36:12 pm

Brummie wrote:

Well they got in my way when I was trying to read the postcard :lol:

Ok, then here is some more reading material for you on a very well traveled, very busy Postcard from 1895

Brummie · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 13:07:25 pm

I bet they suffered from lameness as she says on the card :lol:

You have a lot of material from the Hoyt family, did you buy it in one lot or do you hunt them out?

stallzer · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 13:33:24 pm

My Mother is a 7th generation Hoyt (Her maiden name ) all of these I inherited in my Great Grandmothers collection. If you speak Italian please interpret the writing on the front, I don't know who this is from or going to.
Also, if anyone knows, is this hand painted ?

tonymacg · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 13:37:31 pm

stallzer wrote:

Ok, then here is some more reading material for you on a very well traveled, very busy Postcard from 1895

This puts me in mind of a letter by the English writer Nancy Mitford ('The Pursuit of Love'. 'Love in a Cold Climate' etc) from about the same time:
"I've got out of going to Switzerland thank heavens, it is blessed relief to feel that I have escaped those snowcapped peaks. Like my hairdresser, when I said why do you hate Switzerland 'Ah les montagnes' was all he could say in a sort of groan. I so agree don't you - I think natural scenery is THE END."
Nancy Mitford to Mark Ogilvie-Grant, 10 December 1930

Brummie · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 15:18:14 pm

stallzer wrote:

If you speak Italian please interpret the writing on the front, I don't know who this is from or going to.
Also, if anyone knows, is this hand painted ?

She says "I wish you well" & "I'm thinking of you". Her name is Maddelena Not sure of the first letter of the surename Gironi?

The receiver is a solicitor/lawyer Mr. Gaetano Lo Giudice.

The place is Egg Castle. I would think this card is printed.

Agrome · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 03:44:58 am

Brummie wrote:

stallzer wrote:

If you speak Italian please interpret the writing on the front, I don't know who this is from or going to.
Also, if anyone knows, is this hand painted ?

She says "I wish you well" & "I'm thinking of you". Her name is Maddelena Not sure of the first letter of the surename Gironi?

The receiver is a solicitor/lawyer Mr. Gaetano Lo Giudice.

The place is Egg Castle. I would think this card is printed.

hello,

it is a card of 1904 from Naples/Italy to Boston/USA.

Painter is probably A.Coppola and editor of card is Ercole Hergaini, Naples.

Signature is Maddalena Sironi.

best regards
Andrea

manfaefife · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 03:47:26 am

A Mourning Postcard For Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, with his stamp and postmarked on the date of his death 12/12/12

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 01:20:24 am

Found this one recently. I won't bother to show the back, partly because of discussion about the fact that this thread is only about pictures and partly because it has a 55c Queen's birthday uncancelled so it is unremarkable.

makielb · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 01:23:15 am

Norvic -

Pretty neat card. Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 01:48:42 am

Yes - that's what I thought. But the Russian Federation would eclipse everything!

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2010 20:56:42 pm

A couple of Postcards I picked up at the Campbelltown Stamp Fair.

Nomad

Boomerang

manfaefife · **Posted:** Mon Nov 29, 2010 06:39:51 am

Was looking through some USA postcards when I came across these two. Although unposted they are written on the reverse. I wonder what Miss Flibberty Gibbet thought of the person who sent her the cards ?

Brummie · **Posted:** Mon Nov 29, 2010 07:05:13 am

The second one is obvious but, I wonder what 'Double Red Stamp Day' means?

norvic · **Posted:** Mon Nov 29, 2010 07:20:16 am

They would have been posted in envelopes at letter rate, 2c red Franklin?

manfaefife · **Posted:** Mon Nov 29, 2010 07:20:40 am

Puzzled me as well Brummie, also not sure what the lines are at the point of where the stamps should go. There are 2 cards(duh obviously !) so is that some reference to the double red stamp day ?

Brummie · **Posted:** Mon Nov 29, 2010 07:42:28 am

norvic wrote:

They would have been posted in envelopes at letter rate, 2c red Franklin?

Sounds good to me as he cancelled the cards where the stamp should have gone and sent under cover instead?

stallzer · **Posted:** Tue Nov 30, 2010 06:12:02 am

Here is a real beauty I found last weekend in a box of old letters. It's a Postcard from the World Columbian Exposition of 1893 which gave us the Columbian Stamp series. It also has a nice postmark from the Worlds fair Station.

Brummie · **Posted:** Tue Nov 30, 2010 07:45:44 am

Strange handwriting, their e looks like an r.

"Where can I arrange to meet you, answer? go Michigan Building Jackson Park"

Very nice card stallzer.

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Tue Nov 30, 2010 14:02:55 pm

Parking meters for horse & buggies, Ohio
Amish country:

kriszick · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:44:39 am

I really wish that this postcard hadn't been damaged by water. It is from Seelingstadt, Germany to Los Angeles, California, USA in 1913 (?).

The gentleman to whom it is addressed was a friend of my grandmother and father. I have ended up with all of his personal effects which he must have left to my grandmother upon his death as he had no children. I know from other photos I have that the picture on the card is his family home in Seelingstadt, and in front are his parents, brother and sister-in-law, and niece.

I can't read it, but I assume it is family gossip, etc. since he had recently made the voyage to the states.

Great cards! I have enjoyed looking through them, and am going back to that now!

Kristine

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:06:05 pm

Stallzer, your Columbian Expo card is one of
the "Goldsmith" series; you will find that name
at the very bottom in small print. He had an
exclusive license to print Expo views on these
government postal cards, which raised a big
ruckus, as you might expect, and such a
license was never granted again.

You can read about Goldsmith and his pioneer
efforts many places in philatelic literature. I
think there are several dozen designs.

Brummie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 21:56:13 pm

kriszick wrote:

It is from Seelingstadt, Germany to Los Angeles, California, USA in 1913 (?).

Strange that the date stamp is 30/8/13 and yet the writer has 30/8/03

Brummie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 21:59:08 pm

doug2222usa wrote:

Parking meters for horse & buggies, Ohio
Amish country:

Love this card Doug and you can see that the first meter is definitely not Amish (car) :lol:

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 00:40:43 am

The car belongs to the guy that collects the
money from the parking meters. :mrgreen:

selvedge · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 02:54:29 am

norvic wrote:

Found this one recently. I won't bother to show the back, partly because of discussion about the fact that this thread is only about pictures and partly because it has a 55c Queen's birthday uncancelled so it is unremarkable.

I love this card. I have just been writing an email to a large American Company who are demanding I register my software but refuse to accept "Australia" as a country. It seems I can only possibly live in either Canada or the USA.

So I have just written down how Australia is the same distance east to west New York City to Los Angeles. And also that Western Australia is 1/3 the size of the mainland USA and the east coat of Canada combined.

Hopefully they will make amends otherwise I will have to use my brother in law's address in Vermont.

norvic · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 03:17:22 am

Oh do tell us which software co this is,, so that we can all avoid them.

manfaefife · **Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 05:37:08 am

What one did for amusement before TV and PC's !

Of course it's Perth, Scotland being depicted.

stallzer · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 03:59:50 am

doug2222usa wrote:

Stallzer, your Columbian Expo card is one of
the "Goldsmith" series; you will find that name
at the very bottom in small print. He had an
exclusive license to print Expo views on these
government postal cards, which raised a big
ruckus, as you might expect, and such a
license was never granted again.

You can read about Goldsmith and his pioneer
efforts many places in philatelic literature. I
think there are several dozen designs.

Great info as usual Doug, I also just found out that these were the first Souvenir Post cards ever produced in the US.

benjclark · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2010 09:21:29 am

Postcard I printed a couple months ago to promote a postcard collector site I like and want to see more folks on. I participate very casually with postcrossing and made these cards to invite users there to the other site. The other site is PostcardCollector.org.

stallzer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 00:28:00 am

Way to go USPS !!!
Browsing through the couple of Hundred Postcards I own, I came across this one. A beautiful Italian PC with a nice Painting on the front.

Only to flip it over and see this.

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 01:20:48 am

Except that, with this notice attached, your
card is probably worth 10 to 100 times as much. :mrgreen:

The pneumatic-post collectors are every bit as
fanatical as any other specialty. I say "100 times"
at the top end based on 20 cents and $20;
it could go higher.

Your luck, or the perspicacity of your ancestor,
continues to plow full speed ahead. :wink:

Also, USPS did not exist then; it was POD.

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 01:39:07 am

stallzer wrote:

Way to go USPS !!!
Browsing through the couple of Hundred Postcards I own, I came across this one. A beautiful Italian PC with a nice Painting on the front.

Only to flip it over and see this.

I'll endorse that suggestion but I think it could be worth even more. Search for "pneumatic post" and I reckon you won't find many of these. I sold an ordinary cover about 10 years ago to somebody at the US NPM but I can't remember his name

he would know what was what. If I find it I'll let you know.

stallzer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 01:53:05 am

Well then, that is certainly good news. So it appears as if I've stumbled onto another Gem. Time to go through the Postcard box again a little more thoroughly. That would be great Ian, if you do happen to come across it, please let me know.

Thanks

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 02:17:43 am

The Belgian auction Delcampe.com might have
a good selection of pneumatic post items, as I
think it is a more popular specialty in Europe.

Berlin, Rome, and Paris (and numerous others)
all had pneumatic post systems a century ago.

Also search Rohrpost, carte pneumatique, etc.

stallzer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 05:36:05 am

Thanks as always Doug. I'm thinking I might have hit a Home Run on this one

AKPhilately · **Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 06:31:34 am

My latest addition to brighten up my "Peacemaking" collection: the Euphrates Valley (Mesopotamia) in the early 1920s, where so many riots broke out in 1920.

manfaefife · **Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 00:58:31 am

I'm not sure how this one works, its obviously Venice, Italy with Italian stamp addressed on the reverse to Stonehaven, Scotland, with postmarks of Trelleborg and Malmo, Sweden. Its dated 1900, so not sure why Sweden comes into the equation.

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 01:32:10 am

It's the Trelleborg-Sassnitz TPO (or Ferry?) so it looks like it took the long way to get to Scozia - perhaps that was read as Suezia or whatever the Italian for Sweden and Scotland are?

manfaefife · **Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 01:47:15 am

Ah I can see that now Svezia and Scozia can be mistaken, so it's a bonus then having the Swedish postmarks

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 01:57:52 am

Another interesting factor - why "Cartolina Postale" (postcard) was crossed out and replaced with "Imprime" (printed matter).

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 02:14:32 am

doug2222usa wrote:

Another interesting factor - why "Cartolina Postale" (postcard) was crossed out and replaced with "Imprime" (printed matter).

Not uncommon in Europe - I think postcards with less than 5 words of greeting went at a lower rate.

SafetySam · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 22:38:21 pm

BACK O' BOURKE wrote:

"We saw by the Cable News you had a visit by the Zeppelins- must strike terror to the people of England and Scotland - our lads were in Egypt last news (Confirms the early 1915 usage, for by April 1915 they wer at Gallipoli)- best wishes - M Ritchie

Here's a small (ish) world moment. I was doing a search of postmarks the other night and typed in "Shelford" as I have a lot of them. My stamps are all from my old Gran who had a farm at Shelford, she was here yesterday for a visit with my mum, I read her this postcard, " I bet that's old Mary Richie" she said! "I remember her...she gave us some silver spoons when we were married" :lol:

According to the Shelford Cemetery Index Mary died in 1944 age 88, would have been around the age of 60 when writing that card

stampmogul · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 00:24:00 am

A postwar (1949) item from Moscow.

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 00:55:55 am

stampmogul wrote:

A postwar (1949) item from Moscow.

Another one that qualifies for at least three threads here - registered, uprated postal stationery. Nice.

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 01:24:03 am

Note that the uprating, 2.20 rubles, is nearly ten times the original value of the card. And I would add that registered postal cards from the U.S. are very scarce, and almost always worth buying; most are pre-1914.

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 01:43:57 am

doug2222usa wrote:

Note that the uprating, 2.20 rubles, is nearly ten times the original value of the card. And I would add that registered postal cards from the U.S. are very scarce, and almost always worth buying; most are pre-1914.

That said, towards the end of the USSR period, and shortly thereafter, the registration fee was equal to the postage, and registered cards are quite common.

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 02:30:21 am

Ha! I can see the postal clerk now... "Comrade, register your postal card and we promise not to read it." :mrgreen:

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 03:07:00 am

doug2222usa wrote:

Ha! I can see the postal clerk now... "Comrade, register your postal card and we promise not to read it." :mrgreen:

I think it was to guarantee delivery, because there was detailed recording - of course - and you got a receipt.


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