Postal Savings Certificates

Also 1161

https://stampauctionnetwork.com//TS/ts31926.cfm
Lots 501, 502, 503, 504, 505. Some are scarce usages.

Bumping this topic with a possibly new item for the census.

10 cent Prexie for early withdrawal is a nice bonus.

Don't collect these; feel free to contact me if interested in giving it a new home!

StateRevs,
I would love to have this item.
Thank you for the offer.

Jr. Ratfish,

I apologize. I just saw this and realized I really worded my comment poorly.

Should have stated something like "make me an offer".

I did not mean to imply I would send it gratis to the first requestor.

Sorry about that, I will strive to be more careful in the future.

Hope it is the only coal in your Christmas stocking!!!!

Staterevs:

I completely understand. I know that certificate is worth at least a buck or two (sarcasm).
How is your calendar collection of battleships coming along? I have acquired a bunch of dated battleships in the past few months and may be able to help you fill in a couple of spots. Can you update your want list?

Merry Christmas to you and everyone!

I'm giving this thread a bump with a question. @PostalHistory, way back in 2015 you posted this:


And we've also seen state names on the 1918 series. My question is -- which states did this? And what might be the relative scarcity of this variety?

Here is an example (not mine):

The state names for the 1917 series seem pretty widely distributed geographically. At the time I wrote my Congress Book article on the certificates I had noted AK, AZ, FL, HI, MA, NE, NJ, NY, OH, PR, SC, TN and WI. You show OR and I've found a few others since, including TX.

They are quite difficult generally, much less from any specific state. Still not as scarce as the 1918 series though.

I have started a collection of postal war savings and savings bond collection. I think you must collect postal savings certificates with the stamps. I also beleive you have to collect the booklets the stamps was placed in, the stamps themself, postal savings certificates at the least. The postal savings section that just have stamps will not due. It is a much deeper and very important part of the history of the postal service in the United States.

The section of postal savings stamps in most albums if they care to have any are lacking so much. My question to anyone are they an album that has a expanded section of postal savings stamps for the United States?

It's a pretty obscure area, and underappreciated. There isn't going to be an album for it; you'll have to assemble it yourself. (it's the same thing that attracted me to the field maybe 15 years ago now, and I built a 10-frame large gold medal exhibit out of it). Lots of neat stuff to dig up ,and most of it isn't very expensive.