Here some rather old G.B. postcards: 1901 Took it two days to Düsseldorf 1894 1890 Unbelivable today: This card was posted on April 15th and arrived in Münster the next day ! 1881 Any older around ?
Hello all four years ago this postcard sold for £1450.00. (1815.18 U.S. $) Posted March 23 1890 from Chiang Mai to Germany via Burma, India and sea post. Nice clear cancellations enroute Regards, James. I'm away for a few days, see you all soon.
A illustrated postcard from Singyang,China from 1928. Unfortunately an additional stamp was removed. On the backside a Shanghai transit cancel
"Bildpostkarten" are postcards with a picture on the left of front-side.Many,many exist of the "german era".Here two from Czeschoslovakia,part of Austria till 1918.
In commemoration of the 500th birthday anniversary of Albrecht Dürer,the german post office issued a set of five postcards. On the back they show five different works of Dürer. The address-sides are identical,except from the description of the paintings. This was the only picture-postcard issue of West-Germany ever. 300,000 were printed of each card. Within a very short time they were sold out.But the expectation of a rapid increase in value did not materialize.So many cards were used later for mailing purposes.Most used cards have additional postage stamp(s),as the postal tariffs had become more expensive in the meanwhile.
Don, I´m sorry,I can´t decipher the words.So I don´t know whether it is German or Latin.Trying the net did have no positive results. Here card III: Here you can see the title right near the top: "welsch pirg". Again I cannot read it,but it says so on the other side of the card.In modern German this is: "Welsches Gebirge". This is not so easy to translate."Gebirge" is mountain range. However "Welsch(es)" is more difficult.It means people or land of the Romans (other than the German tribes).Today the word is used only in German-speaking parts of Switzerland. The non-German parts,French-,Italian- and Räto-Roman-speaking parts are called Welsch-Schweiz.
From the Netherlands: Nice cancel and a remarkable address: just the name of the company and the city Cologne.No street,no country.Postal workers were more clever in those days.
