Saddlery letter
The Sattlerbrief (also indexed under "Sattler-Brief" or "Schweinfurt Fund") is a letter to Wilhelm Sattler with forwarding postage from 1850. It is now in the Museum for Communication in Nuremberg and has been part of the collection since 2003 the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications .
history
The letter was found in Schweinfurt in 2002 , its specialty was the franking with a " black one " and at the same time with a blue three-kreuzer stamp. The Kingdom of Bavaria gave on 1 November 1849 as the first German government stamps out that could be stick. The first set of stamps contained stamps for one, three and six cruisers. The one-kreuzer stamp, known as the "Black One", was used for local mail, the blue three-kreuzer stamp could be used to postage items up to twelve kilometers away, and the brown six-kreuzer stamp was for letters in even further determined distant places in Bavaria. The three different stamps never appeared together on a surviving letter. Post officials sometimes stuck three one-kreuzer stamps instead of one three-kreuzer stamp, but a mixture of different stamps on one letter was neither planned nor known until the discovery.
The folded letter was posted by an unknown sender as a local letter on June 14, 1850 in Kissingen and franked with the one-kreuzer stamp according to the local tariff. Because the recipient had already left, the letter went back to the sender and was sent again three days later, again franked with a three-kreuzer stamp, this time to Mainberg, about 30 kilometers away . It is unclear why the letter with insufficient postage was transported and how the letter found the unspecified sender after the first shipment.
The addressee was the Schweinfurt factory owner Wilhelm Sattler, who had trade relationships throughout Europe and, as an entrepreneur, was interested in a smooth exchange of news and goods. As a member of the state parliament, in the autumn of 1847 he had spoken out in favor of the standardization of fees and the introduction of postage stamps based on the English model.
The previously unknown letter was found in 2002 when the letter fell from an old secretary while a descendant of Sattler was moving. After a thorough examination, the piece was auctioned on March 15, 2003, where the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication prevailed. a. was able to acquire a piece known as the "Schweinfurt Fund".
The Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Homeland and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art included the Sattlerbrief in their collection of 100 “ Heimatschätze ”, in which “regional gems”, which are connected with special references to the Bavarian homeland, are listed. The selection was made in cooperation with the State Office for Non-State Museums in Bavaria and the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care .
literature
- Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and for Heimat (Ed.): 100 Heimatschätze. Hidden insights into Bavarian museums. Art publishing house Josef Fink. Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2019. ISBN 978-3-95976-208-3 , p. 167.
Web links
- Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications: Schweinfurt Fund
- Wilhelm Sattler on Schweinfurtfuehrer.de
- Home treasures