![]() ![]() Canada & Newfoundland Postal Stationery Catalogue.United States Stamped Envelopes Essays and Proofs.Guide to the Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers of the United States.Collect British Postal Stationery: A Simplified Listing of British Postal Stationery 1840 to 2007.British Postal Stationery, A Priced Handbook of the Postal Stationery of Great Britain.The Collectors' Guide to Postal Stationery.Postal stationery: A Collector's guide to a Fascinating World-Wide Philatelic Pursuit.Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog.United States: United Postal Stationery Society.Switzerland: Swiss Postal Stationery Collectors Society / Schweizerischer Ganzsachen-Sammler-Verein (SGSSV).Netherlands: Nederlandse Vereniging van Poststukken.Great Britain / UK: Postal Stationery Society of Great Britain, The Postal Stationery Society.Germany: Berliner Ganzsachen-Sammler-Verein.Canada: British North American Philatelic Society Postal Stationery Study Group.Belgium: Societe Belge de l'Entier Postal.Australia: The Postal Stationery Society of Australia.These societies provide information, publications and guidance to those who are interested. The current, but now dated, principal encyclopedic work is the nineteen volume Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog.Ĭollectors of postal stationery may seek out postal stationery societies or study groups in other countries. Many country-specific stamp catalogs list postal stationery and there are books devoted to the postal stationery of individual countries. Thus most collectors prefer entires to cut squares. The manner in which the stamped envelope is cut out (defined by the term " knife") vanishes on a cut square. As a result, one cannot tell from a cut square what specific envelope it came from and, many times, the cancellation information. In the 19th century the practice was to collect " cut squares" (or cut-outs in the UK) which involved clipping the embossed indicia from a postal envelope. Most postal stationery pieces are collected as entires, that is, the whole card, sheet or envelope. Although unlike letter cards they can come unstamped and be issued by private companies. An aerogram is a thin, lightweight piece foldable paper that is used for writing letters and sending them via airmail. Although the format was not officially endorsed by the Universal Postal Union until 1952. A variation of the letter card called an aerogram was introduced in 1933 by a Lieutenant Colonel while he was doing a tour in the Middle East theatre. Letter cards had the advantage of providing twice the room for writing a message then postal cards and were more private due to being folded over. Great Britain issued their first official letter cards in 1892 and Newfoundland introduced small reply cards starting in 1912. The format was first issued by Belgium in 1882. ![]() A letter card is a postal stationery item consisting of a folded card with a prepaid imprinted stamp. ĭespite its popularity, the postal card was soon followed by the letter card. To the point that Great Britain, Finland, Switzerland and Württemberg had all issued postal cards by 1871. They quickly caught on due to being mostly uniform and less bulky then traditional letters. Postal cards are a type of cardstock that contains an imprinted stamp or indicium. The next innovation in postal stationery came in 1869 with the introduction of the postal card in Austria-Hungry. With Cyprus being the last country to stop their use in 1991. Although all the countries have stopped producing then due to declining sales. Wrappers were first introduced in 1961 by the United States, which was followed by 110 other countries in total. Another form of stamped envelopes are so called wrappers, a form of postal stationery envelope that can be used to prepay the cost of delivery for a newspaper or periodical. Although none have been issued in the United States due to differences in mail registration procedures. A variation of the stamped envelope, a registered envelope, has been widely used throughout Great Britain and the British Commonwealth. Including the United States, which released the Nesbitt series of stamped envelopes in 1853. The first modern form of postal stationery was the stamped, or postal stationery, envelope created by the United Kingdom around 1841. Other early examples include British newspaper stamps that were first issued in 1712, 25-centime letter sheets that were issued in 1790 by the government of Luxembourg, and Australian postal stationery that predated more well known issues like the British Mulready stationery that was introduced in 1840. Postal stationery has been in use since at least 1608 with folded letters bearing the coat of arms Venice. ![]()
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