Some neat World Wide post cards

I had a huge lot come my way recently and while sorting through it I found a few a few items that I really love! The few World Wide topics that I do collect was all there and these pieces fit comfortably. I just fell in love with these and thought I'd scan them for you.​

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A French post card from the 1923





Unidentified Post card origin - Turkey? 1911?





Hastings (England?) Post card 1925



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And a few Canadian covers too..​

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Nice Jay

 

Jay ....I noticed that the King Edward V11 stamp is slightly angled to the left ,I am currently reading a stamp book (Error world by Simon Garfield) that said that during victorian/edwardian times stamps were angled left/right /upside down etc. to denote coded messages between sender and recipient that could not be written on a postcard that everyone could read.Have you heard of this?

Jim

 

Nice postcards Jay...I really like the first 1of Paris

 

Yes I have. Look up "The language of stamps" on google and you'll find a lot on the topic. Hope that helps some.

 

Will do thanks

 

Nice looking postcards Jay, seems like I seen those before..........lol
Thanks for sharing...... glad you like them.

 

Really nice postcards and covers.
And the Language of Stamps had taught me a lot.

 

I have heard of it back when I was young, but never user it. I do wonder what I could have said to people?

 

Hard to say! I think that these postcards do not represent the Language of stamps but rather a hastily applied stamp and zipped off to the box. Still interesting though.

 

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Jay, this card was mailed from Teheran, Persia or what is now Iran. I cannot find any mention of the meaning of "Shimran Baghi Fardousie". I wonder if it is a French transliteration of a place name in Iran...Anyone else know? Anyone speak Farsi?

 

Well Baghi is a village in the North Khorasan Province, Iran and Firdousie (Ferdowsi orig. Abu al-Qasim Mansur) might have something to do with were he lived or was born?