Postal Collection (page 7)

Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - German Morocco. These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford

Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - Egypt. These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford

Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - Japan. These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford

Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - Denmark. These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford

Gresham Street and the General Post Office, London. Note the fine depiction of the rank of ready-and-waiting horse-drawn postal vans. Date: 1907

On Her Majestys Service -- delivery of a telegram. 1893

Printing Postal Orders, Bank of England, City of London. 1899

Loading Postal Orders, Bank of England, City of London
Loading Postal Orders outside the Bank of England, City of London. 1899

Brighton Parcel Mail Coach. early 19th century

Mule-drawn delivery carts outside post office, South Africa
Mule-drawn delivery carts outside a post office, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Bern, Switzerland - Monument de l Union Postale Universelle
The UPU (Union postale universelle / Universal Postal Union) monument (Weltpost Denkmal) in Bern designed by Rene de Saint-Marceaux (1909), which inspired the logo of the organisation

Reichspost staff in Berlin, postwar Germany. The Reichspost (German Empire postal service) was taken over by the Allied Control Council with the Berlin Declaration of June 1945. Date: circa 1946

Kitten with cat postman on a cutout Christmas card
Kitten with a cat postman on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Old London Characters - Postman with bell

Occupations 1882 - Post Boy knocking on a door. 1882

Occupations 1882 - Parcel Delivery Man. 1882

Red pillar box with boy and dog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Red pillar box with girl and dog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Poster, Post That Parcel. 20th century

Red pillar box with robins on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a house, with a postman making a delivery. circa 1890s

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a mouse
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome (or elf) riding a mouse to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a frog
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome riding a frog to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast...!)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Goblin riding a hare
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Goblin riding a hare to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast)

Babies and storks on five Victorian scraps
Babies and storks (and a postman) on five Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Two mice eating a Russian stamp on a postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Poster, Air Mail, designed by Lee-Elliott. 20th century

Sir Rowland Hill (1795 A?o??n? 1879). Was a teacher and creator of the first British postage stamp in history: the Penny Black. Engraving. Universal History, 1892. Colored

Rowland Hill (1795-1879). Engraving. Colored
Rowland Hill (1795-1879). British teacher and creator of the first postage stamp, the Penny Black. Engraving by Capuz in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1879. Colored

Postal censorship during World War I
Photograph showing condemned goods taken from the mail and stored to await the decision of the Prize Court. Date: 1917

Postal censorship during World War 1
Photograph taken in the Censors Museum which shows attempts which used to be made to smuggle food into Germany through the newspaper post

The campaign against Evil Communications
Page showing a series of photographs depicting the elaborate work of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain: the laboratory where suspicius matter is chemically examined

The postal censorship: sorting mails and examining letters
Page showing a series of photographs which depict aspects of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain. The first two photographs show preliminary distribution of mail bags

The postal censorship: deciphering languages
Page showing a series of photos depicting some medals intercepted from Germany, as well as letters marked as photographs which contained rubber and leather instead

Tinker, Tailor playing card - Postman, Patrick Post. 20th century

Old Maid card - Postman. circa 1940s

Christmas card, Robins posting Christmas Greetings. 20th century

Boy Posting Letter - Hope this reaches you. early 20th century

Siberian postman, boat hauled by dogs
A Siberian postman. The post is carried along the River Yenisei, which rises in China (now in Mongolia) and flows through Siberia into the Arctic Ocean

Japan - Rural Postman delivering the mail by rickshaw
Japan, Rural Postman delivering the mail by rickshaw. Date: 1908

Red English Post Box in a brick wall in Cambridge, England

Fairy postman riding grasshopper on a Christmas card
Fairy postman riding a grasshopper on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Loading the Mail Train
A Royal Mail train service is loaded with post bags. Date: circa 1970

Sir Rowland Hill
SIR ROWLAND HILL, the postal reformers statue outside the former General Post Office in St Martins le Grande, with the dome of St Pauls Cathedral in the background. Date: 1795 - 1879

Postal Courier, C17
Capt. Bedlow carrying letters to Forraigne Parts. Date: 1684

Relay Station, Romania
A Postal Relay Station at Moldo-Valachie, Romania. Date: 1848

VICTORY AT PORTSMOUTH
Members of the International Postal Conference visiting Admiral Nelsons ship the " Victory" at Portsmouth. Date: 1920s

Sir Rowland Hill / Anon En
SIR ROWLAND HILL English postal reformer Date: 1795 - 1879

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