Friday, January 03, 2020

5c Adolphe Postal Card with Illustrated Advertising




Unsure what it is or what it does!



Luxembourg-Gare
7 Nov 1902
to
Berlin, Germany
9 Nov 1902 





Printed backs with illustrations on government-issued postal cards are uncommon. This illustration is especially well executed, although the machine's use remains for a reader to explain!



Wednesday, January 01, 2020

MARIE ADÉLAÏDE - Die Proof on Glazed Card by Schirnböck




Die Proof on Glazed Card



Reverse inscribed in manuscript: 

Luxemburg 1914 Großherzogin

with Red Handstamp:  

Nachlaß 
Ferdinand Schirnböck

Believed to be unique.





Unusual Rates: Registered Printed Matter


29c Rate

Registered Printed Matter!

Wasserbillig
20 Nov 1916,
Trier Censor,
 to Eisenach, Germany
22 Nov 1916

Handstamp:
Drucksachen
Einscriben

4c Printed Matter Rate to Germany
(but Basien-Hoffkamp shows the 4c rate
increasing to 5c on 1 Aug 1916)
25c Registry Fee





What purposes were served by registering printed matter?  One can only speculate.  Perhaps to be sure the recipient (here a seller of construction materials [Baumaterialien]) received the information, and certainly a registered letter would not go unnoticed in the incoming mail.