Telephone ticket

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The telephone billet from 1891 is considered to be one of the first forerunners of today's telephone cards

Telephone billets or telephone tickets were issued on November 5, 1883 in the Kingdom of Bavaria, first in Munich , and later in some other places in Bavaria, "for the use of a public telephone station for a period of 5 minutes". In the four corners there is the indication of the value, at the head the place name above the designation "Telephone system". The draft was based on the tickets for the Munich horse-drawn tram . They were used for public telephone booths and are thus a forerunner of telephone cards .

From 1881 to 1891, other telephone certificates were used in the German Reich to handle telephone traffic from public telephones. Both were receipts of fees .

Furthermore, from 1891, Bavarian telephone billets with stamps were produced. The stamp imprint (10, 25, 50 pfennigs or one mark ) was the equivalent value paid in advance. 20 pfennigs tickets could only be bought and used in some places, all others could be used without restrictions. The last of them came out in 1901. These telephone certificates were suspended in 1908.

These prepaid and numbered telephone vouchers are treated as postal stationery among collectors and are listed in the corresponding catalogs. There were similar postal stationery in France.

  • Bavarian telephone license, used from 1883

  • Telephone billet for 10 pfennigs from 1894

  • A sheet of 20 Pf telephone billets

  • French telephone billet from 1909

literature

  • Telephone tickets with postage stamps. In: KK Doberer: Bavaria Philately. History of the Bavarian postage stamps. Phil Creativ Verlag, Schwalmtal 1990, pp. 80-82

A list of other literature sources can be found in the Bavaria Bibliography for Philately from 1961 by Christoph Otto Müller , on page 31.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MICHEL postal stationery catalog Germany; 2009; P. 48
  2. ↑ MICHEL postal stationery catalog Germany; 1999; Pp. 9 and 166
  3. ^ Introduction to the MICHEL postal stationery catalog Germany from 2009, p. 9 and p. 185
  4. ↑ MICHEL postal stationery catalog Germany; 1999; P. 9
  5. ^ KK Doberer: Bavaria Philately. History of the Bavarian postage stamps. Phil Creativ Verlag, Schwalmtal 1990, p. 80
  6. ↑ MICHEL postal stationery catalog Germany; 1999; P. 9 and 47

Web links

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