I have a huge collection of those and I tried very hard to preserve them and avoid tearing them off the envelope because obviously they are not worth anything if a piece of the stamp is missing.
I will take a look at them and see if I can put them online. They are so old and I have been collecting since I was in school!
That is a unique stamp and I have noticed with many of these the colouring is very similar, is that becasue they did not have the colours for stamps then or they all decided to use the same colouring back in the day?
Many of the old stamps have that ink and colour and I found out that was because it was a standard print ink and as the years have gone by they have acheived better hues for the printing ink which has enabled us to have multicolours on the stamps.
Envelopes, post cards, air letters (or aerogrammes), and newspaper wrappers and other papers with postal indicia (stamp images) printed directly on them are all postal stationery, which are just as collectable as postage stamps, although with a smaller following. Most postal stationery was printed by governments for general use and distribution, but in some countries, private companies would submit their own mailing articles to the government to have postal indicia applied. There are also subcategories of postal stationery for special uses, such as air mail (like the envelope posted by zararina in the post prior to this one), official mail, and registered mail. Postal stationery can be collected mint or postally used, but in most of the world, it is always collected as an entire. In the US, it was popular for a time for just the indicia to be collected cut out from the envelope; these are referred to as a cut square. I'll try to post some other examples of postal stationery.
Five postal cards from Canada issued for the 75th Anniversary of Superman. There is a full size image of Superman on the other size of the card.
These postal stationery envelopes were produced specifically for the Pan Pacific Philatelic Exhibition in New Zealand. I believe they were only sold by the Exhibition organizers and not generally available in New Zealand post offices; as such they would be considered a private order issue. These also happen to have a set of cancellations specifically from the show.
Actually that is a souvenir sheet from New Zealand containing 3 stamps. The entire sheet was gummed and could be applied to a cover.
Good to know all those information. I like that the entire sheet above was gummed, look nice together.
