Children's mail

This article deals with the game, for the former magazine of the same name see Kinderpost (magazine) .

Children's mail as a learning toy

The children's mail is an educational toy , similar to the shop that was first marketed around 1890.

Furnishing

"Forms" of a children's mail

The contemporary taste is reflected in the packaging as well as in the items belonging to the game. Depending on the manufacturer and the version of the “Children's Post”, it includes stamps in different colors and images, an ink pad and a “postmark”. Additional forms for different letter and goods deliveries are available in addition to telegram forms and payment receipts for payment transactions. In a higher price category there are accessories such as a switch , which can either be made of cardboard, wood or, from the middle of the 20th century, plastic and rounded off with a “letter box”. Depending on the technical development, the equipment was supplemented by a "letter scale" and a "telephone". A "post cap" rounds off the game.

Individual versions

Germany

Children's postage stamps (around 1910–1920s)

For the game Kinderpost there were imitations of the Germania stamp , the lettering here was Kinderpost . It should be emphasized that it is documented for 1904 that in the German Reich real postage stamps with a children's postmark were already used from this game .

One of the early publishers who started selling this game in 1907 and who later produced it themselves was ABC Verlag Georg Reulein . During the Second World War , an edition was produced that indicated Nuremberg as the place of publication.

A philatelic absurdity was the delivery of a postcard franked with a children's postage stamp to the Federal Chancellery in Bonn on October 1, 1963.

English language area (selection)

For the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the children's post office is occupied by a counter .

United Kingdom

Depending on the nationality, the “stamps” from the early 20th century have, among other things, the design as punch .

United States

The TINY TOWN POST OFFICE - SPECIAL DELIVERY SERVICE is based on the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SPECIAL DELIVERY , the TINY TOWN POST OFFICE - REGISTRY is the modification of the UNITED STATES REGISTRY

Collections

Children's post game from Switzerland (2008)

The Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications has a collection of around 140 games, including an edition from the manufacturer: Factory and Publishing House of Sala Games with the red seal A. Sala from 1900.

The Museum for Communication Frankfurt showed on 11 November 2010 to 30 January 2011, the special exhibition game! 100 years of children's mail . From December 2, 2011 to February 19, 2012, it was shown again in the sister museum in Berlin .

literature

• Care and social issues: Children's Post - a classic game. In: The archive. Magazine for Post and Telecommunications History, 2007, Issue 2. German Society for Post and Telecommunications History e. V., ISSN  1611-0838 , pp. 26-32 ( online at Google books ).

Web links

• More children's postage stamps
• Anglo-Saxon language area (English)
• Children's mail games, with covers of old German "postage stamps"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Proof of a children's postmark
2. ↑ Location of Nuremberg on the inside of the cover, bottom left
3. ↑ hr-online.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Post Office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Punch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Children's postage stamp, USA,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
7. ↑ SPECIAL DELIVERY 1902, USA,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
8. ↑ Children's postage stamp, USA,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
9. ↑ Registry Stamp of 1911, USA, (English)
10. ↑ Edition 1900  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Childhood memories - Trari, trara, the post is here!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on hr-online.de from November 9, 2010  
12. ↑ Program preview for December 2011 – February 2012 in the Museum for Communication Berlin ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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