Old Maximum Cards

Old Maximum Cards

Old Maximum Cards
From Daniel Olsen, Feb-2000.

I am enclosing a color photo copy of a piece I like very much. I look for references to Maximum Cards on the correspondance part of very early TCV postcards. This one is from 1916. Very few Maximum Cards were made during the years ofthe Great wall 1914-1919.


Figure 1 Front Side of postcard	Figure 2 Back Side

Figures 1 and 2: The Stamps Corresponds. I select postcards that make a match with the stamps and believe that this gives it some importance, at least as a curiosity. 15 February 1916, Montevideo, Uruguai.

I also like those Maximum Cards that were actually transported through the mails- by aircraft, by Zepp, by train, cars, horseback, etc. There is one here that was transported by Ballon, from the Eiffel Tower.


Figure 3 Back Side of postcard	Figure 4 Front Side

Figures 3 and 4: Maximum Card released in a ballon at 3 PM from the Eiffel Tower and received at 8:35 PM in Les Murfaux.

Maximum Cards Buletin of 1939, France
From Daniel Olsen, Feb-2000

Before World War II, France had become the center of this developing branch of philately. Catalogs of Maximum Cards from many countries appeared before 1934. Rules that were set then never really changed, as shown in this 1939 bulletin.

Figure 5: Front Page
1939 Maximaphily Buletin

**1939's Maximum Cards Buletin Pages**

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