Corner card: An imprint on an envelope, usually in the upper-left corner, for the commercial, institutional or private source using the envelope, similar to business card or letterhead imprints. It usually includes a return address.
Corner card: An imprinted return address, generally in the upper-left corner of an envelope, from a commercial, institutional or private source, similar to business card or letterhead imprints.
Corner Card
The printed return address of the sender in the top left corner of an envelope, also use to identify any envelope or item of stationery bearing such a marking.
Corner cards, the earliest type of advertising cover adornment, were initially simply a preprinted return address, but they grew more elaborate and decorative as the use of envelopes grew.
: private mail and parcel delivery firm serviced area west of the Mississippi River; used corner card, complimentary franks and passes, labels, and a range of stamps; 1879-1911.
The cachets, meant to communicate a certain prestige, could be as simple as a blind-embossed corner card, a fancy return address corner card, an illustration of buildings or product, or as fancy as an all-over advertisement.
Catalog Number - Number assigned by a catalog publisher to each individual stamp of a country.
Catalog Value - Stamp values established by reputable catalogs, used as pricing guides.
C C - Cut cancel; corner card; ...
 See also: Used, Stamp, Cover, Applied, Cancel
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