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cursus
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Posts: 2,018 
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jan 5, 2024 6:53:03 GMT
Just a guess: Hungary?
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rod222
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Posts: 11,107
What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Jan 5, 2024 7:24:54 GMT
Correct.
"KISS NAGY SZERENCSÉJE" (Hungarian) means: "Big Kiss Luck"
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FDI
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Member of RPSC & BNAPS
Posts: 388
What I collect: Modern Canada (misperf, varieties, tagging errors), Canadian Cinderellas, EXUP & CAPEX & Dead Countries
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Post by FDI on Jan 5, 2024 14:05:12 GMT
Were these used for loteries?
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rod222
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Posts: 11,107
What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Jan 5, 2024 14:14:59 GMT
Were these used for loteries?
to be frank, I don't really know for certain, I get the feeling, from the commentary in the link,
that these were basically a scam, to lighten the pockets, of customers, providing a dream of riches,
or, working on the pathos, by helping orphans and needy children.
Even today, we must practice the caution from DESIDERATA
"Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism."
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rednaxela
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Posts: 202
What I collect: Germany in all its facets since 1871 (especially German Reich used including postal statinoneries, used), USSR, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Denmark, France. I design all album pages for my collection myself and partly make them available to the general public for use.
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Post by rednaxela on Jan 5, 2024 23:45:22 GMT
Were these used for loteries?
to be frank, I don't really know for certain, I get the feeling, from the commentary in the link,
that these were basically a scam, to lighten the pockets, of customers, providing a dream of riches,
or, working on the pathos, by helping orphans and needy children.
Even today, we must practice the caution from DESIDERATA
"Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism."
These were advertising stamps for lotteries that were issued and used in Austria-Hungary at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were intended to appeal to men. Perhaps there was a woman's name on the advertising stamps that was particularly important or dear to the respective advertising addressee. In that case, please buy the lottery ticket with the number on the advertising stamp with the woman's name in question, and good luck would be with you. After all, women are crucial for men's happiness either way... (at least that was the "argument" of the lottery ticket distributors). |
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