{"id":510,"date":"2022-05-27T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/?p=510"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:26:22","slug":"pre-stamped-card-collecting-basel-zoo-centenary-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/pre-stamped-card-collecting-basel-zoo-centenary-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre Stamped Card Collecting Basel Zoo Centenary 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking to add a little extra to your stamp collection? Then why not consider illustrated pre-stamped cards such as the one illustrated.<\/p>\n

Switzerland 1974 100th Anniversary of Basel Zoological Garden<\/h2>\n

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Switzerland has always had a moderate stamp issuing policy and eschewed the opportunity to produce a special stamp to mark the occasion.\u00a0 They instead chose to commemorate the landmark with this rather attractive pre-stamped card. It was the first such card issued that year and had a face value of 30c.<\/p>\n

This example was cancelled on the first date it was issued with a special handstamp. Despite being aimed at the collectors market it sometimes crops up postally used and occasionally postmarked on the actual opening 100th anniversary 3rd July 1974.<\/p>\n

Cards such as this can find a place in thematic collections as well as single country ones.\u00a0 They add a bit of extra interest too and also appeal to Maxi card or PHQ card collectors. For those interested the technical term for a Maxi Card Collecting is a Maximaphily. We are a fountain of trivia here at Five Minutes Spare!<\/p>\n

You can learn a bit more about Basel Zoological Gardens here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Looking to add a little extra to your stamp collection? Then why not consider illustrated pre-stamped cards such as the one illustrated. Switzerland 1974 100th Anniversary of Basel Zoological Garden Switzerland has always had a moderate stamp issuing policy and eschewed the opportunity to produce a special stamp to mark the occasion.\u00a0 They instead chose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,86,3,87,7],"tags":[52,88,89],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-on-stamps","category-cards-postal-stationary","category-european-stamps","category-pre-stamped-cards","category-thematic-stamps","tag-animals-thematic","tag-basel-zoo","tag-pre-stamped-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}