Whole piece

The Bordeaux letter with both Mauritius ; probably the most valuable whole in the world.

A complete piece is a complete philatelic document, with postage stamps and an envelope, stamp, etc. This includes postcards , envelopes , parcel cards , postal orders or the like with postage or stamp notes.

In philately, a distinction is made between total items and postal stationery : postal stationery has a stamp imprint , but can be provided with additional postage to supplement postage . There are special catalogs for letters and postal stationery for collectors.

Types of entires

Forms

From the imperial post , Bavaria , Braunschweig , Helgoland , North German Confederation , Saxony and the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post were from 1866 forms with a form like postcards or money orders issued. Postage was paid by means of affixed postage stamps.

literature

• Whole piece. In: Wolfram Grallert: Lexicon of Philately. 2nd Edition. Phil * Creativ GmbH, Schwalmtal 2007, ISBN 978-3-932198-38-0 , p. 156.
• A lance for whole pieces. In: Illustrated Briefmarken-Journal , year 1905, pp. 136–137

Web links

• Philatelic Lexicon of the Association of German Philatelists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Hille: Collecting and shaping . 2nd, unchanged edition. transpress Verlag, Berlin 1973, p. 40.