Stamp: Superintendents frank - undated (United States of America 1900)
Superintendents frank - undated (United States of America 1900)
01 January (United States of America ) within release Postal Telegraph-Cable Company goes into circulation Stamp Superintendents frank - undated face value None No Face Value
Stamp is square format.
Official frank, inscribed "SUPTS." (Superintendents) With unique control number in blue-black Signature of the company's president, Albert B. Chandler. Sn mentions the existence of the perforation variants, but does not assign separate catalogue numbers to them, instead grouping them together as "Perf. 11, 12".Also in the issue Postal Telegraph-Cable Company:
- Stamp - Frank - dated 1900 face value Complimentary;
- Stamp - Frank - dated 1900 face value Complimentary;
- Stamp - Superintendents frank - undated face value None;
- Stamp - Superintendents frank - undated face value None;
Stamp Superintendents frank - undated it reflects the thematic directions:
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling systems, although sometimes quite extensive and sophisticated as in China, were generally not capable of transmitting arbitrary text messages. Possible messages were fixed and predetermined, so such systems are thus not true telegraphs.
