World Postal Stationery, Part 2

I added a few more to my letter sheet collection recently...

I don't know why I find this simple Newfoundland cover so appealing -- must be the young Victoria.

The first new addition to my "one from everywhere" collection in eight months: Negri Sembilan, 1897.

Postal card from Armenia, 2016, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Antoine Meillet (1866–1936), French linguist and Armenologist. Meillet was an important scholar in the field of Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics. I own and have read both of his books on Classical Armenian, one in French (Esquisse d'une grammaire comparée de l'arménien classique, 1903, 2nd ed. 1936), the other in German (Altarmenisches Elementarbuch, 1913). The card is No. 463 of a printing of 500.

As I was scanning this little Canadian postal card, I realized something unusual about it -- the card is intaglio engraved. The raised ink was very apparent just by running my fingernail over it lightly. Very few countries went to the expense of intaglio printing their postcards. It made little sense from a cost perspective. A sheet of 100 intaglio stamps was practical, but postal cards were probably printed in sheets of 10 or 12, at most, so intaglio printing costs averaged significantly more, per card vs. per stamp. Lithography was by far the most common printing method for postal stationery.

Going through my album, I only found examples of intaglio printing on cards from Canada, Mexico and Honduras. Is anyone aware of other countries?

Crete, 1900.

Time for a bump on this topic, with a couple covers from Denmark and the Philippines.

@Erliaz, is that card from Crete engraved or litho?

Are you sure the Newfie envelope is intaglio or is it just embossed?

Litho.

I just got a few more 19th-century cards from German private local posts.

Braunschweig: Stadtbrief-Beförderung Braunschweig. This one is odd in that there's a space for the sender's address on the same side as the indicium, but the space for the recipient's address is on the other side.


Breslau: Privatstadtbriefbeförderung Hansa

Mainz: Privat-Brief-Beförderung Mainz

This Swedish postal card from 1897 is engraved

German private local post,1880s
Here are two letter-cards from Metz (a French town,but it was occupied by Germany between 1871 and 1918)

Here is an engraved post card from September 9, 1938 Germany issued for the
The 10th Party Congress of the NSDAP taking place in Nuremberg.



The indicia imprint on the post card is the same as the Hitler stamp issued
on September 1, 1938.



Scene from old Nürnberg, also engraved.

Germany 1942

To commemorate the signing of the European postal-telegraph agreement at Vienna.



Based on the stamp issued on October 19, 1942

Scott B B213



The imprint on the post card was printed by photogravure but the stamp was
printed in 2 colour engraving and typography overprint.