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A folded British Queen Victoria one penny newspaper wrapper addressed to Augsburg, Bavaria with a Bristol squared-circle cancellation of 10.00 AM 27 November 1901, just five days after the Queen's death. It bears an Augsburg received mark on the back (not shown) dated 29 November showing the journey to have taken only two days.

In philately a newspaper wrapper is a form of postal stationery which pays the cost of the delivery of a newspaper. The wrapper is a sheet of paper, large enough to wrap around a folded or rolled newspaper and with an imprinted stamp to pay the cost of postage.

History

The first country to issue newspaper wrappers was the United States in October 1861,[1] followed by New South Wales (1864), North German Confederation (1868),Victoria (1869), Romania (1870), Great Britain (1870), in total 110 countries issued newspaper wrappers.[2][3] Charles Knight is considered as the first person to propose the use of stamped newspaper wrappers or as the "inventor".[4]Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Stamped-to-order

Stamped to Order newspaper wrapper for W H Smith & Son, addressed to Alexandria Egypt, in addition to the impressed stamp there is an advertising ring around the stamp, the embossed stamp is dated 13.1.1882, postmarked with a special precancel postmark for W H Smith, unfolded the wrapper is 129mm x 252mm.

Some countries permitted businesses and individuals to submit their own plain or printed sheets for impressing with an imprinted stamp. In Great Britain numerous businesses availed themselves of this facility and since anyone could use this service it resulted in private individuals producing "philatelic" newspaper wrappers.[5][6] The stamping-to-order facility was introduced in Great Britain in 1855[7] and withdrawn in 1973.[5]

Stamped-to-order newspaper wrappers are also known from Australia, Austria, Bavaria, France, Germany, New South Wales, Switzerland, Tasmania and Wurttemberg

References

  1. ^ Perry, Thomas Doane, Guide to the Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers of the United States, p127, The Dietz Press, 1940
  2. ^ Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog
  3. ^ Ascher, Dr Siegfried, Grosser Ganzsachen-Katalog, 1925.
  4. ^ Smyth, Eleanor C, Sir Rowland Hill the Story of a Great Reform, 1907, p189
  5. ^ a b Chandler, John H & Dagnall, H, The Newspaper & Almanac Stamps of Great Britain & Ireland, p265, 1981, ISBN 0 907630 00 6
  6. ^ Philatelic Stamped to Order wrappers
  7. ^ Huggins, A K, British Postal Stationery, p31, 1970

Further reading

See also

Newspaper stamp

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