21-11-2025, 10:03 PM
(20-11-2025, 01:09 AM)Hugh Wrote: It looks to me like your postcard is a 2Pf postal stationary card issued by Wüttemberg in 1900 (MiNr. DP2 old style, MiNr. P23 in later catalogues). So, it needed an additional 3Pf stamp to bring it up to the required domestic postcard rate.
I believe this is the same issue of postal card as the first post. Michel P41 if on white stock, P43 if on bluish stock. The issue is a special 2pfg discounted rate for "Ortsverkehr" (within the city) . The first post in this thread showed a card that was posted from a suburb of Stuttgart to Stuttgart, so apparently qualified for the 2pfg rate.
Michel describes these as "Ermäßigung des Ortsportos" = Discount on local postage
The card with the additional 3pfg added needed the extra because it went between two cities and needed the 5pfg inter-city rate (Fernverkehr = distance rate).
Hugh: P23 was an 1876 issue that included a Coat of Arms at the top.
Roy
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