Germany til 1840 Hamburg Letter to Berlin Used Rare (see photo)

  

GERMANY 1800's USED HAMBURG FULL LETTER. Germany til 1840 - Hamburg Letter to Berlin - Used - Rare (see photo). Condition: Check the Picture, please.

All items are absolutely guaranteed to be genuine and as described. The so-called "butcher's post" thus formed in some places acquired the significance of a state institution (in Württemberg) [2]. In the lands of the German spiritual order, a special administration of messengers or couriers arose for this purpose, and stations were established for changing horses[2].

With the development of city liberties, one of the most important means of communication in the Middle Ages was the institution of city messengers, which existed almost everywhere since the 14th century, but was especially developed in large shopping centers in Germany. From the numerous regulations that have come down to us for city messengers in Cologne, Mainz, Nordhausen - in the 14th century, in Strasbourg - in 1443, in Augsburg - in 1552, in Breslau - in 1573, etc. It is clear that they were under the jurisdiction of the city council, to which under oath they were obliged to obey.

They did not receive a salary either from the community, or from individual corporations or merchant guilds. The institute of urban messengers received a strong and widespread development thanks to the unions of cities on the Rhine and in Lower Germany. The messengers of the Rhenish city union maintained the correct messages from Cologne and Mainz via Frankfurt to Nuremberg.

The messengers of the Hanseatic cities were famous for their accuracy in meeting deadlines, maintaining communications between Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam and Antwerp, as well as eastward through Stettin, Danzig and Königsberg up to Riga. In southern Germany, the first place was occupied by the messengers of Augsburg; in addition to lines to Nuremberg (thrice a week), Lindau and Regensburg, they maintained communications with Italy; they arrived in Venice via the Brenner in eight days[2]. Thurn and Taxis Franz von Taxis on a FRG stamp, 1967 (Sc #971) Main article: Thurn y Taxis Post By the end of the 15th century, the name of the post office in Germany began to mean suna set of institutions established by the State or under the control of the State for the transmission of both government and private correspondence and for the transport of passengers. In 1497, on behalf of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Franz von Taxis established a post office that replaced the messengers who carried state correspondence[4]. Thereafter, the house of Thurn y Taxis, which used your imperial colors of yellow and black, retained the postal privilege for many centuries.

In 1650, the Thurn y Taxis post office used the first horse-drawn carriages in Europe since ancient Rome. Thurn und Taxis stamp for the North German states (1865) Thurn und Taxis stamp for the North German states (1865) Thurn-and-Taxis stamp for the South German states (1859) Thurn-and-Taxis stamp for the South German states (1859) The Thurn-et-Taxis family lost its monopoly when Napoleon granted the Confederation of the Rhine the right to carry out postal communications. The first of the German sovereigns to establish a government post office and recognize the nature of a monopoly behind it was the great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1646). His example was followed by other significant imperial ranks. Already at the beginning of the 18th century, some statesmen (for example, Friedrich Wilhelm I in Prussia) abandoned their fiscal views on the post office and saw its task in reducing the cost of postal rates and making postal messages as accessible to the population as possible. The government post office of Saxony, Braununschweig-Hanover, Hesse, and especially Brandenburg-Prussia was famous for its expedient organization. It was unusual speed for that time.

In addition to branches to Hamburg, Stettin, Leipzig and Breslau, postal communications were maintained in the west with Holland, in the east with Warsaw and the Swedish post in Riga. In the matter of transporting passengers, Prussia, however, was already surpassed by countries with more comfortable roads at the end of the 18th century. All the more struck contemporaries the success achieved by Prussia in 1821, when the so-called him were established. Nagler'sche Schuellposten, with traveling carriages[2].

The first was Bavaria, which issued the "Black Unity" on November 1, 1849. After this marki released: Baden (1851), Bergedorf (1861), Braunschweig (1852), Bremen (1855), Hamburg (1859), Hanover (1850), Helgoland (1867), Lübeck (1859), Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1856), Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1864), Oldenburg (1852), Prussia (1850), Saxony (1850), Schleswig-Holstein (1850) and Württemberg (1851). In 1868, the northern German principalities merged into the North German Confederation and merged their postal services into the North German Postal District[de]. When the German Empire was founded, the latter took over the postal business in all the states that were part of the empire, with the exception of Bavaria and Württemberg, which retained independent postal administrations.

The postal business was left to imperial legislation, which also applied to Bavaria and Württemberg. The domestic legislation of the latter regulated only the rates for postal items that did not go beyond their territory[2]. The Deutsche Reichspost ("German Imperial Post") was officially established on May 4, 1871.

The central office of the imperial-German post was the Imperial Post Office (Reichspostamt), subordinate to the imperial chancellor and run by the Secretary of State for Postal Affairs [2]. Heinrich von Stefan, a well-known postal expert[2], the inventor of the postcard and the founder of the General Postal Union, was appointed the first postmaster general of the imperial post[9]. In addition, in the same year, 230 ml. In 1873, Germany took the initiative to establish a uniform, regardless of the distance and the actual weight of the parcel, a cheap tariff in relation to light parcels that did not exceed 5 kg [2]. The history of the Universal Postal Union began in 1874, when the first Universal Postal Congress[de] took place in Bern, which was attended by representatives of 22 states, including Germany. On October 9, 1874, the Universal Postal Convention was signed, which applied to Germany and other countries that acceded to this agreement[2]. The post office also took on another type of assignment: it presented bills to the drawee for acceptance and, in the absence of acceptance, was obliged to make a protest. Later, at the Lisbon III Congress of the UPU in 1885, Germany and the states in which the operation of postal orders is carried out concluded an agreement among themselves on the extension of this operation to their mutual relations.

With the advent of the telegraph and its recognition as an indispensable means of communication, in Germany the postal business was combined with the telegraph business, to the great benefit of both departments, which was followed by almost all other states. This happened in 1875, when the management of telegraphs began to be concentrated in the Imperial Post Office [2]. In subsequent years, the entire territory of the German Imperial Post was divided into 40 postal and telegraph districts, which were administered by chief post directors.

They included advisers for the execution of orders, architects (Postbauräte) for the construction of postal and telegraph buildings, and postal inspectors forrevision production. Wherever only the vastness of communications did not require special telegraph and telephone institutions, the latter were connected with post offices (Postämter), which, according to the significance of the locality, were divided into three categories. The fourth category of postal institutions were postal agencies (Postagenturen), which were entrusted not to a special official, but to one of the local inhabitants (postal agent), who did not even leave his private occupations. At the 4th UPU Congress in Vienna in 1891[de], Germany joined, among other countries, an agreement whereby governments mutually undertook to deliver periodicals published within their territories at the same prices as to domestic subscribers, with a surcharge only possible transit costs. In addition, Germany had concluded separate agreements with France, England and the United States on the observance in mutual relations of the same regulations in relation to the periodicals of such countries that had not yet acceded to the international convention on the newspaper operation[2].

In 1893, the total number of mailboxes in Germany reached 95,149 units, against 24,703 in 1871[2]. There were an average of 68.8 postal items per inhabitant. The excess of the income of the postal department over expenses, in terms of the rubles of the Russian Empire of that time, amounted to 11,029,605 rubles [2]. The exemplary organization of the German post office owed a lot to G.

By the end of the 19th century, Germany remained one of the few countries where the post office also took over the transportation of passengers in areas where there were no railways. To carry out its extensive functions, the German Imperial Post had a staff of 148,961 in 1895.

Postal agents by the end of January 1898 consisted of 8335 people, including 1449 innkeepers, 1375 artisans, 1298 farmers, 1174 merchants and 1084 teachers. Measures were also taken to combat the inaccuracy of senders who deliver correspondence with illegible addresses, for which the pupils of German public schools practiced the correct inscription of addresses[2]. The maximum amount for which postal orders were allowed was not very large and did not exceed 400 German marks. Recipients who received many transfers and had a checking account with the Reichsbank could have the corresponding amounts transferred to their account instead of being paid out in cash. According to the International Bureau of the UPU for 1903[10], Germany ranked third in the world in terms of the density of the postal network, with one post office per 14 square meters. In Germany, there were the largest number of foreign letters in the world: from there in 1903 266 million written items were sent to other countries, and 242 million lengths of postal routes were received. In Germany, postal orders worth 900 million francs were completed, that is, more than all other states (except Belgium) in which this kind of service was installed[2]. The basic rate for forwarding simple closed letters in Germany at that time was 10 pfennigs. At the same time, 15 g was accepted as a weight unit, and letters that had a greater weight, up to the maximum weight (250 g), were paid only at a double rate. Unpaid or not fully paid letters, although they were forwarded, a uniform surcharge of 10 pfennigs was made for the forwarding of an unfranked letter; the share of such letters was 2.7% of the total number of letters. For parcels, a higher weight limit was established, which for printed works reached 1 kg, and for factory samples - up to 250 g. Regardless of weight, 10 pfennigs. Special increased rates could be levied on written correspondence, for example, for letters that, on the basis of a preliminary agreement, were issued to addressees at the station immediately upon the arrival of the train (Bahnhofsbriefe). The basic rate for closed international letters, although twice the basic rate established for internal correspondence, still did not reach the maximum normal rate, amounting to only 20 pfennigs for every 15 g [2]. The most common stamps of the Reichspost were stamps with an allegorical design "Germany". These stamps were issued from 1900 to 1922, making them the longest-serving series in German philately, with the most significant design change[en] during this time being the change of the inscription "Reichspost" ("Imperial Post ") to the "Deutsche Post" ("German Post"). Such brands are known as "Vorläufer" ("predecessors")[11]. In general, by 1896 and later, overprinted stamps were issued by the German authorities for all colonies: German South West Africa, German New Guinea, Kiautschou, Togo, Samoa, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands, German East Africa and Cameroon.

After the loss of Germany's colonies during the First World War, overprinted yacht stamps were temporarily used by the new masters of the colonies. German Post Abroad Main article: German post office abroad For postal communications with overseas countries, Germany had government-subsidized postal and steamship lines that supported German postal communications with the Far East, Australia and East Africa. Germany established several post offices.

Agencies in Asia, Polynesia and Africa[2]. In particular, the German Empire opened post offices in certain cities of Morocco, Turkey and China. The most common stamp series then were the famous Germans series, and then the stamps with the Hindenburg. The first stamp of the prized German Zeppelin series appeared in 1928 (Sc #C35-37). On the original stamps of Danzig, 133 overprints were made over the entire period of circulation, of which 51 were for franking official correspondence; 49 - by changing the face value of the brand; 16 - commemorative; 14 - occupation; 3 for charitable fundraising for the Winter Welfare Fund.

The first overprint of DM Dienst Marke transl. Service mark was made on August 25, 1921 on a series of definitive stamps of 14 denominations. Intended for franking official correspondence, they were in circulation until September 30, 1923. The last overprint of Deutsches Reich (translated from German German Reich) was made on September 28, 1939 on 14 stamp values during the establishment of German administration in Danzig in September 1939, indicating the new denomination in Reichspfennig (German Reichspfennig) or Reichsmark (German Reichsmark).

It was in circulation until December 31, 1940 [17]. Memel issued his own stamps between 1920 and 1923, when the territory was annexed by Lithuania[18]. The original stamps were overprinted, with a total of 67 stamps overprinted, all with the new denomination in Lithuanian Centu or Centai cents and Litas Litas. The first overprint was made on April 16, 1923, the last on December 15 of the same year[17]. On July 25, 1941, the world's first two-digit postal code system was introduced[20]. This system was first used for parcels, and then was extended to all postal items. Sudetenland/Bohemia and Moravia In accordance with the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became a German territory in 1938. In 1939, Nazi Germany occupied part of the Czech Republic, first overprinted. Vintage stamps and rare coins sale online! Type of capital investments, as investments in antiques is growing in popularity more and more each day. It's quite a profitable and safe investment, as prices for antiques are steadily growing (on average 20% per year), which often exceeds the growth of stocks in the stock market. In addition, investment in antiques enriches not only materially bringing income but also spiritually, bringing esthetic pleasure. It is necessary to understand what things really have the potential to increase in value and which, on the contrary, are hopeless. The word "antique" has Latin roots and means "old". The core value of antiques is in the fact that they are old. Age objects which are considered as antique, can start from 10-15 years, depending on the historical, physical and chemical characteristics of the object. Often, investment in antiques and collecting go hand in hand.

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