Summer-Greetings-Card with a private text. Summer-greeting-cards were issued in Japan from 1950 onwards. The Ryukyus followed later.The cards all have an illustration on the back side,shown in the following post.
My only postcard of Sweden: used in 1981 The text says,that the card is postpaid for the whole world by surface mail.For airmail delivery outside of Europe extra postage has to be added.
This one is a postal stationery and is not.It is a curiosity. I received it from Sweden in 1970. If you have a close look to it,you will see,that all printed inscriptions are in German and not Swedish. The reason why is very simple: the sender used a postcard from Germany and put stamps from Sweden to pay the postage.
The original postcard was issued in 1941 and has an imprinted 6 Pfg. - stamp with the portrait of Adolf Hitler ! Here you can see the enlarged section of the postcard,where the swedish stamps covers the original Hitler-stamp nearly completely, but still not invisible.
Interesting usage. The block of four stamps and lack of message on the left leads me to believe the was a philatelic item. An example of a new issue, perhaps. Don
No,it was a commercial use.The message,as it is normal,is on the backside.But it was a stamp-collector,who did send me the card. I do not own a 6 Pfg.-postcard,but only the 5 Pfg. of the same series,what is identical apart from the colour and postage-value.
A postcard from Bangladesh. Imprinted stamp: Sheik Mujibur Rahman,the first president of Bangladesh,murdered in 1975.
