Maximaphily, traditional and non-traditional

Maximum Card : Australia
Sc# 2367
Australia's First Gold Sovereign (=£1)   current CV Circa $7000

Ribboned Head of Queen Victoria   (In 1857 we snuck in a sprig of Australian Flora,  Banksia in her hair...  Hehe)

Victoria DG Britanniar Regina FD   = Victoria, By the Grace of God, Queen of England,  Defender of the Faith.

The sweet taste of Victory...

Stonehenge Maxicard.   Australia.

Note: English Actor, Ray Winstone  (aptronym alert)  has  built another Stonehenge in his back garden.




First Fleet Maxicard Australia
Thematic : Puttees on stamps.

Australia
Centenary of the AFL  Australian Football League  Maxicard.
1996
Saint Kilda  (Saints)   
Big Stewie Lowe,  "Buckets"   lining up for goal.

#beagle #dog #maxicard

Since I postmarked it myself at the post office desk inside the National Postal Museum, I saw the dimensions of the postmark, so I placed the stamp to avoid getting the postmark over MLK's face.

Here's the backside:

These are all great! I came across a couple of different items at my sister-in-law's this past week. They were cards - post card size - with no photo either side, but with a written message on one side, and a stamp that was printed onto the card, and an address on the other side.

What are these? Are they the precursors to post cards? Or something else? The stamp on one was a 4 cent Canadian cameo Queen.

Thanks Rod. I've never seen them without photos before.

Jean, you have no doubt seen these before,
a book of Postcards, can be neat if they are in your area of interest.
They live in shoeboxes,   impossible to mount.

I never knew what Maximaphily was until I read this thread. Fascinating and quite lovely how all this is put together. I found some covers in a large group of covers that appear to be in this same area of collecting, but they are older and someone has obviously put these together.

But since these are not on cards, is this still considered to be Maximaphily? I guess it is but these are just not Maximum Cards, they are on envelopes. But would anyone collect these? or do they only collect the cards? I have about twelve of them, possibly more, that I will probably sell off, maybe in the auction? Here's a couple.


The stamp is the Fort Garry Gate in downtown Winnipeg


The stamp is the Confederation of Canada (Charlotteltown Conference) in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island


The stamp is the World Grain Exhibition in Regina, Saskatchewan


Ottawa Conference Set

The Travellers Bldg is now converted into condos, its was deemed a heritage building so the outside remains the same as it originally was.

It was used as a place for travelling salesmen to conduct business.  

Taken from www.virtual.heritagewinnipeg.com/vignettes/vignettes_024.htm

I use to work with a chap that owned a condo in that building, its a interesting area of Winnipeg. The exchange district had many warehouses and was a central distubution hub for Canada, you still can see all the old painted signage on the walls from past companies. The city of Winnipeg has a preservation order on the old wall signage.

The 1843 was a personally produced card Jean,
so perhaps we can only consider "Postcards" per se, as from when they were produced in bulk as an idea.
This type of discipline will probably have its day, many years from now, when the nostalgia era kicks in.

In my particular location, early Western Australia Postcards are highly prized, as a window into our heritage,
they now range in price from $25 each, and upwards, depending on the subject matter.

How much Would I be able to sell my cachet covers for ...