No. 0107 · 1929
A code book for the world’s business messages
A 1929 supplement to the Rudolf Mosse telegraph code. It has found a home; its story stays in the archive.
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The story
A commercial telegraph code stood standardised code groups in for longer phrases, so that international business messages cost less to send. This 1929 supplement to the Rudolf Mosse code, compiled by Julius Kähler, gives tables for users of German, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, with currency figures and alphabetic aids for building code groups.
An illustrated endpaper shows the firm’s Berlin headquarters, remodelled by Erich Mendelsohn. A separate printed errata slip corrects several encoded entries: in a code book, a wrong group is a wrong message.
Details
- Date
- 1929
- Publisher
- Rudolf Mosse, Berlin
- Binding
- cloth: Publisher's dark cloth textured boards, gold script-stamped front and spine, decorated company-headquarters endpaper
- Condition
- Publisher's dark green-black textured full cloth with gold script lettering on boards and spine; binding looks tight, slight rubbing and minor toning/spotting. Original pictorial advertising endpaper and pale-blue errata slip present, the latter apparently held by a tan strip. No visible detached leaves. Collation not yet verified; inscription/bookplate status unknown.