On parcel cards, paying for postage with a metered stamp is quite unusual. Bérczi D. Sándor needlework trade meter stamp on a COD parcel card and its advertisement.
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8 + 2 filler stamp from the Hungarian Saint Emeric series issued in 1930. Emeric was the heir to the Hungarian throne, but lost his life in a hunting accident at a young age. According to some sources there was no accident…
Rare everyday use of the Saint Emeric 8 + 2 filler commemorative stamp on a parcel card.
Another interesting feature of parcel cards is that the stamp combinations on them are always considered to be in everyday use. The reason for this is that the parcel cards were left at the post office for safekeeping, so the recipient had no opportunity to get the stamps from them.
For parcel post, as for letter post, the weighting is directly proportional to the rarity of the items. In general, the higher the weight, the rarer the philatelic object.
This parcel card belonged to a domestic parcel weighing 6.4 kg, so it is not particularly rare, the really interesting domestic parcels in this period start at over 10 kg.
In the past, collectors threw perfin stamps away, but nowadays they have a large collector base. This early collecting behaviour also explains why perfin stamps have become rare. It is particularly dear to our hearts to see perfin stamps on postal history items. The parcel card shown here was sent to Switzerland by the Hungarian representative of the YOST typewriter factory. For security reasons, the seal of the package had to be glued on the coupon side of the parcel card so that the addressee could check the package was unopened. This meant that the company’s letter seal also survived with the six Y-punched stamps. The postage for colis postal was 1 korona, which was paid with six stamps. It should be noted that companies rarely kept high value stamps in stock, hence the rarity of high denomination perfin stamps. It is likely that Yost did not have stamps with Korona currency in stock, so they paid the 1 Korona postage with the fillér stamps.
