Penalty Mail Envelopes

[ashrunner]

I have been searching for information regarding the early 20th Century penalty mail envelop imprint shown below.   Does anyone know of any reference either in hard copy or online regarding information on this item?  Scott in their ultimate wisdom has deemed it not worthy of listing...but I am sure someone has corrected that philatelic mistake.


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[khj]

There was a group of postal stationery specialist who were trying to start work on this about 2 years ago. I'm not sure what came of it. It's a really really complicated area, especially when you start including penalty mail overprints -- which can appear on regular postal stationery!

Scott really wasn't being lazy when they stated the reason for not including non-denominated postal stationery like the one you showed above -- that it was beyond the scope of the catalog.

That being said, most of it remains a hodge-podge of information scattered over the web.

Try checking with the United Postal Stationery Society.

[khj]

I see Tom has now got his work on Penalty Mail overprints published this year! I saw his early work and it was impressive.

However, that will not cover the stamp you showed.

[ashrunner]

Thanks khj...I'll continue looking for the elusive quarry. 8v)