Post by jamesw on Jul 4, 2018 1:39:51 GMT
These are Canadian, but not postal, so I'll file this here under ephemera.
As mentioned elsewhere, a friend dropped in last night an handed me a pile of cheques/promisory notes/receipts, with excise stamps, deeds (without), ration booklets and some other stuff.
Here are two pieces I find interesting and curious. They are licences for Private Receiving Stations, basically home radio receivers.
Here's a website which explains them better than I can.
www.radioalumni.ca/z_rcvg_lics.htm
What I find curious is they don't have excise stamps, but post marks from the local post office, Elmvale.
Can anyone tell me why they would have post marks? Would this be proof of payment, in lieu of a stamp? These are issued but he Ministry of Transport, not the Post Office Dept. I wonder if they shared an office in little Elmvale.
Interesting also to note from the story on the web site, since these are issued for years 1950-51 and 1951-52, that the government of Canada stopped requiring licenses for these stations in 1953, so these are some of the last years to be issued.
edit. I read a little more closely..."Licences could be bought from any radio dealer or Post Office as they sold them voluntarily as a service to the public. Each Department Field Office also sold licences." Guess it was just easy to use what was at hand.
As mentioned elsewhere, a friend dropped in last night an handed me a pile of cheques/promisory notes/receipts, with excise stamps, deeds (without), ration booklets and some other stuff.
Here are two pieces I find interesting and curious. They are licences for Private Receiving Stations, basically home radio receivers.
Here's a website which explains them better than I can.
www.radioalumni.ca/z_rcvg_lics.htm
What I find curious is they don't have excise stamps, but post marks from the local post office, Elmvale.
Can anyone tell me why they would have post marks? Would this be proof of payment, in lieu of a stamp? These are issued but he Ministry of Transport, not the Post Office Dept. I wonder if they shared an office in little Elmvale.
Interesting also to note from the story on the web site, since these are issued for years 1950-51 and 1951-52, that the government of Canada stopped requiring licenses for these stations in 1953, so these are some of the last years to be issued.
edit. I read a little more closely..."Licences could be bought from any radio dealer or Post Office as they sold them voluntarily as a service to the public. Each Department Field Office also sold licences." Guess it was just easy to use what was at hand.
