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Registered letter of March 17, 1925 from Amsterdam (Branch Office: St. Anthonies Breestraat) to Leeds.
The letter - franked with 25 cents and 30 cents was 23 grams of weight and insured for 300 Dutch guilders (= 600 Goldfrancs).
The used stamps are of the issue 1924 * type Veth, printed on paper without watermark.
The franking was correct. At the time the foreign letter rate of the 2nd weight (20-40 grams) was 30 cents, the registration fee 15 cents and the insurance fee 10 cents (5 cents per 300 Frs.), together 55 cents.
The postal worker in Amsterdam used the wrong label "Waarde" (size 35x6 mms, type 2aI) on the letter. This was against the regulations; for insured letters to foreign countries the label "Valeur" had been obligatory since May 1, 1909. Additionally in Great Britain an extra label "INSURED/(Valeur déclarée)" was stuck on the letter to make clear that the letter had to be handled with special care.
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* The definitives of the "Veth issue" (named after the designer Prof. Jan Veth) were issued in the years 1924 up to 1939. The lower values in the small size were printed in photogravure , the top values in larger size are recess printed. The issue is interesting because of the different sorts of papers - the first printings in 1924 in the small size were printed on paper without watermark, the later printings were printed on paper with watermark "circles" - and the many different perforations.
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