Monday, November 19, 2007

A postal parcel bulletin to the most famous jewelry store in Cordoba?


This ”boletín de expedición” (expedition bulletin), also called ”boletín de encomiendas” (parcel bulletin), is a kind of postal entire used in the sending and receiving of packages or postal parcels.

It consists of a large card of thin paper or cardboard, which on the front has the indicium or postal pre-paid marking and space to fill in the addresses of both the sender and the addressee. The postal parcel bulletin states that it covers up to 5 kilograms.

This postal parcel bulletin was sent on the 18th of April, 1913 by a Señor B. Guthmann in Buenos Aires to a Señor V. Pavese in Córdoba. What is remarkable, is that there is no specific address for the addressee… Could it be a person who received parcels very often? Was it such an important person in Cordoba, that he (or his company) did not need his (its) address specified?

Looking into Italians who emigrated to Argentina, and in Particular to Córdoba from Piemont, I found out that a Vicente Pavese owned in the beginning of the 1900s the most famous jewelry store in Cordoba, La Moderna.

The parcel states that it weighed 3,350 kilograms. And we are curious about what the contents could have been…



Details:
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Postal Parcel Bulletin - Catalogue Vasen / Riese no. B16 (1913).
Farmer. 1 peso - blue.


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