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Maximum Card (Maxicard) of the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) in Vienna; 1991; maximum card as "Season's Greetings" of the UNPA, Vienna to the New Year 1992; the card motive is showing a monochromized photograph from the signature of the Postal Treaty between the United Nations and the U.S.A. in the Headquarters of the United Nations, New York on ; This photo depictes the following persons (sitting at table from left to right):

  • Albert Goldman (1897-1960), then Postmaster of New York
  • Warren Austin (1877-1962), then Permanent Representant of the U.S.A. at the United Nations
  • Trygve Lie (1896-1968), then General Secretary of the United Nations
  • Jesse Donaldson (1885-1970), then General Postmaster of the U.S.A.
  • Bertil Renborg (from Sweden), then Chief of the United Nations Postal Administration (retired in September 1952)

The maxicard is franked with the stamp Michel No. 122 of the United Nations, Vienna of the series "Postal Services of the UN" showing as motive the definitive stamp Michel No. 5 of the United Nations Postal Administration (New York) from 1951 of the series "UNICEF (UN Children's Fund)" showing two hands (a children hand and an adult hand).; The stamp is postmarked with an one-circle standard postmark of 1400 Wien W - Vereinte Nationen, with a diameter of 24.0 mm.
Stamp: Michel: No. 122; Yvert et Tellier: No. 130; Scott: No. 122
Color: blue on normal paper (stamp)
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 8 S (Schilling)
Postage validity: from 24 October 1991 until ? (stamp)
Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 30.5 x 37.0 mm

Postmark: 1400 Wien W (Austria), , one-circle standard postmark with 24.0 mm diameter
Date

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(date of postmark)
Source scan of original
Author United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA), Vienna
Permission
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Public domain This text document, published by the United Nations without a copyright notice, was left in the public domain in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in the United Nations Publications" (detail). It falls into one of the following categories outlined in Administrative Instruction ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.2 (paragraph 2):
  1. Official records (proceedings of conferences, verbatim and summary records, periodic supplements, compilations of resolutions, etc.)
  2. United Nations documents issued with a UN document symbol
  3. Public information material designed primarily to inform the public about United Nations activities (not including material that is offered for sale)

See Also: {{PD-US-no notice-UN}} to be used by document of the United Nations published in the United States prior to 17 September 1987 and {{PD-UN-map}} for UN maps.

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  • The depictured stamp on the stamp, Michel No. 5 (UN-New York) from 1951
    The depictured stamp on the stamp, Michel No. 5 (UN-New York) from 1951
Picture description Signature of the Postal Treaty between the U.S.A. and the United Nation on in New York (card motive)

Two hands as motive for the depictured stamp Michel No.5 (UN-New York) (stamp)

First day of issue (maxi card)
Publisher United Nation Postal Administration (UNPA), Vienna
Design official photograph of the United Nations (maxicard)
Printer "Österreichische Staatsdruckerei", Vienna (stamp)
Printing technique Offset printing (stamp)
Circulation 609,830
Perforation Comb perforation, K 14¼ : 14¾
MICHEL Nr. Vereinte Nationen (Wien), Nr. 122 (stamp)
SCOTT Nr. United Nations (Vienna), No. 122 (stamp)

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