USSR 1930 Tula Local Postage Handstamp Frank "Charged on Account" - Rare
125,00 € inc. tax
SOVIET UNION POSTAGE HANDSTAMP FRANK: 1930 TULA
Tula 1930 (6 October) - Local Postage Handstamp Frank for wrappers & non postal organisations, reading "(postal) RATE CHARGED ON ACCOUNT ¤¤a TULA -6 10 30" (∅ 40mm), handstruck on front of a cover to Moscow. Arrival on back 7 October 1930. Very Fine.
Rare, only a few examples known (all from 1930 or 1931). The only Soviet Postage Handstamp Frank issued for the city of Tula.
Ratner Catalogue # 90 (Post Rider 53, November 2003)
Note: Soviet Postage Handstamps ( = handstruck) were first introduced in late 1924 by the Soviet Post & Telegraph circular N°34/1030 from 17 November 1924 to indicate the payment done of a postal rate without the use of adhesive stamps; in late 1927 they were followed by Postage Meters (= machines). Apart Moscow and Leningrad, a few Soviet cities used those Postage marks struck by hand for wrappers and non postal organisations mail in bulk. There was two ways to pay the postal fees with such postage handstamps: either in hard cash or through an acccount of payment in advance ("charged on account"). Handstruck Postage Franks gradually vanished from the Soviet postal scene around 1929, mainly replaced by machine meters, with a few exceptions lasting in the early 1930s.
Ratner Catalogue # 90 (Post Rider 53, November 2003)
Note: Soviet Postage Handstamps ( = handstruck) were first introduced in late 1924 by the Soviet Post & Telegraph circular N°34/1030 from 17 November 1924 to indicate the payment done of a postal rate without the use of adhesive stamps; in late 1927 they were followed by Postage Meters (= machines). Apart Moscow and Leningrad, a few Soviet cities used those Postage marks struck by hand for wrappers and non postal organisations mail in bulk. There was two ways to pay the postal fees with such postage handstamps: either in hard cash or through an acccount of payment in advance ("charged on account"). Handstruck Postage Franks gradually vanished from the Soviet postal scene around 1929, mainly replaced by machine meters, with a few exceptions lasting in the early 1930s.
Product Code: 1833
Product Condition: Used
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