What is a Philatelic Cover?
A philatelic cover is an envelope prepared by affixing the
postage stamps (or sometimes the franking machine mark), address written,
postage stamps defaced neatly with clear postmarks and mailed from a
post-office to go through a postal system to reach its recipient anywhere
around the world.
In the early times, when paper envelopes were not developed,
people would wrap their letters in a separate clean sheet of paper and they
would fold everything together and seal it with some kind of a sealing wax or
adhesive to secure their letters. On that wrapped sheet of paper the sender
would write the recipient’s name and address and paste the postage-stamps
required by the post-office to deliver their letters.
A simple ordinary looking cover to most people, but for a
cover collector the postmarks, the location of the post-office, label,
stickers, postage stamps, date of posting, slogans etc. or any additions to the
cover during its journey to its destination makes it more interesting and
collection worthy.
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