CHILDREN'S MAIL
The "Children's Mail" is a game that enables children to learn how to write letters, postcards and postal instructions, the task of the post and the transport to the recipient in a playful way.
For this purpose, since this game still exists today, there were and are not only letterheads, envelopes, children's postcards, postal orders, and postage stamps, but also stamps, stamp pads and other utensils useful for the game.
The stamps and stamps included in the postal stationery, mostly based on a long series of the individual production times, intentionally deviate greatly from the originals in size, perforation and possibly the inscription.
In the game, letters and postcards could be written, franked with the children's postage stamps included, and posted at a post office counter.
The local "child postal officer" then received the mail and "processed" it.
The stamping, filling in of forms (e.g. postal orders) and further processing already required a certain knowledge of the processes at the post office, which becomes clear when dealing with the children's postal mail order.
The children's postage stamps included in the game were used for franking.
GDR children's game Children's Post Postspiel Post Famos Nr.516
Manufacturer: Post Famos, Germany, manufactured around 1960;
Cardboard box in the format 42 x 27 x 5 cm with plastic inserts;
the game includes a pop-up cardboard switch in the format 41 x 25 cm;
various game material:
- two ink pads
- a postmark
- an old ballpoint pen
- An old postal savings book in child size (unfortunately described and stamped)
- approx. 50 coins from 1 Pf. to 5 DM in cardboard (cut out)
- approx. 50 banknotes in all value levels (old banknotes of the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s)
- approx. 30 banknotes in all value levels (Federal Republic of Germany banknotes from the 1990s), of course everything in child size
- several blank postcards for children
- Various blank forms of telegrams
- Various forms of payment cards and postal orders blank
- Various blank parcel card forms
- Various forms of postal delivery slips blank
- Various forms of sender stickers (rubberized) blank
- various giraffe brands in the value levels 10, 20, 30,, 50, 60 Pf.
- also airmail stickers.
I even got Payment cards (zahlkarte) really used by the childern in the GDR.
Amazing......
A Down payment of 200 Marks for a Motorcycle !!!!!!!!!!!!
How real can it be................
Even postcards written to Grandma (OMA)
Postcard 1 Front
Postcard 1 Back
Postcard 2 UNUSED
Kinder Post also was in existence in Germany in the 1930's
The stamps looked like miniature Hindenburg stamps
We had some Kinderpost stampa in stock that were from pre-WWI. They were very similar to the design of the pre-Germania stamps of Germany.
David Giles
Ottawa, Canada
"Kinder Post also was in existence in Germany in the 1930's
The stamps looked like miniature Hindenburg stamps "
Found a beautiful site with all kind of different "Kinderpost spiele"
from a puppet-house museum in germany.
Really cool....... (And nice graphics..)
http://www.puppenhausmuseum.de/kinderpost-spiele.html
I have had the following "stamps" in my collection for years and since yesterday I never knew what the meaning of these stamps was.
re: Kinderpost / Children's Mail
CHILDREN'S MAIL
The "Children's Mail" is a game that enables children to learn how to write letters, postcards and postal instructions, the task of the post and the transport to the recipient in a playful way.
For this purpose, since this game still exists today, there were and are not only letterheads, envelopes, children's postcards, postal orders, and postage stamps, but also stamps, stamp pads and other utensils useful for the game.
The stamps and stamps included in the postal stationery, mostly based on a long series of the individual production times, intentionally deviate greatly from the originals in size, perforation and possibly the inscription.
In the game, letters and postcards could be written, franked with the children's postage stamps included, and posted at a post office counter.
The local "child postal officer" then received the mail and "processed" it.
The stamping, filling in of forms (e.g. postal orders) and further processing already required a certain knowledge of the processes at the post office, which becomes clear when dealing with the children's postal mail order.
The children's postage stamps included in the game were used for franking.
GDR children's game Children's Post Postspiel Post Famos Nr.516
Manufacturer: Post Famos, Germany, manufactured around 1960;
Cardboard box in the format 42 x 27 x 5 cm with plastic inserts;
the game includes a pop-up cardboard switch in the format 41 x 25 cm;
various game material:
- two ink pads
- a postmark
- an old ballpoint pen
- An old postal savings book in child size (unfortunately described and stamped)
- approx. 50 coins from 1 Pf. to 5 DM in cardboard (cut out)
- approx. 50 banknotes in all value levels (old banknotes of the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s)
- approx. 30 banknotes in all value levels (Federal Republic of Germany banknotes from the 1990s), of course everything in child size
- several blank postcards for children
- Various blank forms of telegrams
- Various forms of payment cards and postal orders blank
- Various blank parcel card forms
- Various forms of postal delivery slips blank
- Various forms of sender stickers (rubberized) blank
- various giraffe brands in the value levels 10, 20, 30,, 50, 60 Pf.
- also airmail stickers.
re: Kinderpost / Children's Mail
I even got Payment cards (zahlkarte) really used by the childern in the GDR.
Amazing......
A Down payment of 200 Marks for a Motorcycle !!!!!!!!!!!!
How real can it be................
re: Kinderpost / Children's Mail
Even postcards written to Grandma (OMA)
Postcard 1 Front
Postcard 1 Back
Postcard 2 UNUSED
re: Kinderpost / Children's Mail
Kinder Post also was in existence in Germany in the 1930's
The stamps looked like miniature Hindenburg stamps
re: Kinderpost / Children's Mail
We had some Kinderpost stampa in stock that were from pre-WWI. They were very similar to the design of the pre-Germania stamps of Germany.
David Giles
Ottawa, Canada
re: Kinderpost / Children's Mail
"Kinder Post also was in existence in Germany in the 1930's
The stamps looked like miniature Hindenburg stamps "
re: Kinderpost / Children's Mail
Found a beautiful site with all kind of different "Kinderpost spiele"
from a puppet-house museum in germany.
Really cool....... (And nice graphics..)
http://www.puppenhausmuseum.de/kinderpost-spiele.html