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Calgary, AB
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Mr David Salovey 
Founder 
P.O. Box 464
New-York, N.Y. 10014-0464
USA

The postcards of St. Pierre and Miquelon are a collecting area in itself , the cards printed and the publishers have been well documented and many collectors have a list of their ówantsâ. Recently there has been an upsurge in the prices for this material, led by the market in France, yet a good percentage of the postcards used in the period 1900 to 1930 were addressed to North America.The cards are becoming scarcer in North America too and many sell in the region of U.S.$30.00 each and up.

A.M.Brehier ( No.70). Click for enlargement

 The stamp collector finds an added attraction in that many cards were sent through a system of post card exchanges. Collectors used to exchange cards of their prospective countries and they would have the stamps for postage affixed to the front of the card. Here is an example of just such a card, which was sent from St. Pierre and Miquelon in 1931. It was sent to Slovenia in the then kingdom of Yugoslavia , the card was sent from St. Pierre on August 14 1931 and arrived in Gornja-Radgona on October 06 1931.The face of the card which shows the port of St. Pierre blocked with ice, has been franked with postage totaling  1fr84c, a rather odd amount , made up of stamps issued between 1908 - 1917 and a 40c stamp issued for the Colonial Exposition in Paris in 1931. The card is one of a series issued by the publisher A.M.Brehier ( No.70).