I presume the monthly meeting is open since today is Feb. 21? Anyway, I thought I would post something having to do with payment of late fees.
During the latter part of the 19th century, those wishing to post mail on board a ship about to sail from Kingston, Jamaica could do so provided that a 6 pence late fee was paid. A postal clerk at the dock would apply a datestamp with an index code ending in an "X", "Y" or "Z" to indicate that the cover had been posted dockside. The example below shows a 6 pence stamp paying the late fee and is cancelled with datestamps having an index of "6X".
Other Caribbean islands used a separate handstamp to indicate payment of a late fee. Below is an 1888 cover from Dominica to London with the late fee paid using a pair of one penny stamps and a "LATE FEE" handstamp applied below.
Triple rate letter from Geneva, Switzerland to Turin, Italy. Pre-UPU rate at this time was 30 centimes for a first class letter to Italy, therefore, 90 centimes quals triple rate. Confirmed by red crayon "3". Paid with 2x40 centimes plus 1 - 10 centimes Sitting Helvetia stamps.
#1 Stamps with posthorns on them: German infla era postcard, 3 stamps from the 1922-23 posthorn series.
#2 Stamps with a value different from what is printed on them: A cover with a 20 billion Mark stamp that paid 80 billion Marks postage. In the last week of the inflation era, postage rates were leaping so high so fast that rather than print higher values to keep up, the German government simply decreed that all stamps, starting November 26 1923, would cost (and be worth) 4 times their face value. The rate of this cover was 80 billion Marks.
Attempted Late Fee 22 August 1894 London, England to Luzern, Switzerland.
1d postal stationery envelope uprated with two cancelled 1d stamps = 3d.
The English internal Late Fee was 1/2d, foreign 1d.
Posted Too Late, after 6pm, for the evening dispatch to the continent. The added 1/2d was insufficient to pay the international late fee of 1d, as seen in hexagonal date stamp "L1", therefore, it was marked 'Too Late' by the London Foreign Branch and transported the next day.
16 July 1899
Budapest, Hungary received in Luzern, Switzerland 18 July.
Stamp has post horn under value tablet.
Barmen, Germany 25 September 1923 to Luzern, Switzerland, forwarded to Emmenbrück.
More than 10 stamps, in fact this cover has 39 stamps.
3,125,000 Marks.
Attempted to collect postage due 1.10CHFr in Luzern, uncollected. The letter was forwarded to Emmenbrücke and collected. Of interest is the 10 centimes Tell stamp used as a postage due in Emmenbrücke.
First image is of front,
Next two images to show folded stamps on back 3,000,000 marks!
Thank you, guys, for starting without me. I forgot to take my stamps to the library, so no scans, but I did take pics this evening. be warned that my showing is nowhere near as spectacular as those you have just seen, but it playing the game that counts.
I thought a joint issue showing a stamp from each country would be a shoe-in, but not so. As you can see, I don't have a matching stamp for any of them!
I was excited to find a nice big posthorn but I have to disallow it, as the topic states, "a stamp with posthorns on it". That means two or more. So...
Jaywild - I have to disallow your first cover for the posthorn topic. Your second would have been fine, but it is entered in another category.
Malolo - ditto with your posthorn stamp.
Here is a 1908 cover from British Honduras to Austria showing solo usage of a 20 cent stamp to pay triple the 5 cent letter rate plus a 5 cent registration fee.
A stamp issued in both perforated and imperforate:
I recently received as a gift these nice corner cutouts of the imperf sheets of Austria's President Renner issue. They go well with the perfed version which I picked up in a collection of semi-postals at SEAPEX.
Tonight I happened to notice this nice block of 8 dull red stamps from the 1851-57 3c issue (reconstructed from 4 pairs) at my workstation. It too exists perforated. How much would it be worth today, I wonder.
An item with at least ten stamps to pay for a single letter rate
Here's one with exactly 10 stamps to pay the single letter rate of $1.15 to overseas destinations.
I have more of these than I thought..... !
an item that shows a triple letter rate. Bonus if this rate is not to an internal destination.
This letter probably contained an order plus the money to pay for it.
an item that shows a stamp where the stamp had a value OTHER THAN the amount printed on the stamp for postage
The printed value of this stamp was 25 centimes, but as all the low value stamps had all stuck together due to the tropical climate of the New Hebrides, this stamp and others were overprinted with the colonial rate of 10 centimes.
Ok, my last post for the night...
A piece of postal stationery with at least 3 indicia
This lovely Austrian balloon cover has 4 indicia.
And..... A stamp with posthorns on it
German inflation issue high value
