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The rights to this card were later sold to Hymen L. Lipman, who began reissuing the cards under his name in 1870. [7] The U.S. Postmaster General John Creswell recommended to the U.S. Congress one-cent postal cards in November 1870. [5] Legislation was passed on June 8, 1872, which allowed the government to produce postal cards. [7]
The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, who patented a private postal card, and sold the rights to Hymen Lipman, whose postcards, complete with a decorated border, were marketed as "Lipman's Postal Card". [1] [2] These cards had no images. While the United States government allowed privately ...
A message reply card, still attached, sent from Cuba to Germany, 1894. A Chinese zodiac "Year of the ox" postal card with an overprinted surcharged imprinted stamp, 1997. Postal cards are postal stationery with an imprinted stamp or indicium signifying the prepayment of postage. They are sold by postal authorities.
Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847.[20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
A letter card is a postal stationery item consisting of a folded card with a prepaid imprinted stamp. The format was first issued by Belgium in 1882. Great Britain issued their first official letter cards in 1892 and Newfoundland introduced small reply cards starting in 1912. Letter cards had the advantage of providing twice the room for ...
The first postal cards have been used by William Henry Jackson, an artist and photographer, who painted Civil War battlefields in the beginning of the 1860s and used them to write to his family. [3] Charlton invented the private postal card around the same time in 1861 in Philadelphia. He copyrighted and patented [4] the idea in the same year. [5]
Medium. paper. Location. Riga, Latvia. The Penny Penates is a postcard that was posted on 14 July 1840 to Fulham in London. It was addressed to the writer and practical joker Theodore Hook, who was probably also its sender and artist. The hand-painted design on the postcard shows an image of post office clerks sitting around a giant ink well.
Emanuel Herrmann. Grave of Emanuel Herrmann. Inscription (in German): "The Inventor of the Postal card". Emanuel Alexander Herrmann (24 June 1839 in Klagenfurt, Austria – 13 July 1902 in Vienna) was an Austrian national economist. He is considered the decisive last in an international line of inventors of the postal card.