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Post by mikel on Mar 27, 2024 16:57:44 GMT
Hello all, Thank you all for your many kind words about Don Denman and his Stamp Smarter website. The philatelic community has one less shining star now. The earlier post about the security message for www.stampsmarter.com was correct, because that website is obsolete. (I see there was an early correction that I missed. Sorry!) Don replaced it about two years with www.stampsmarter.org. He had a redirection on the original site until the domain registration expired, and he no longer owns that domain. Earlier this Don and several other supporters created the Stamp Smarter Foundation, a IRS approved 501(c)3 non-profit, tax exempt educational foundation, with the intent to create a plan for the long term survival of the Stamp Smarter website. Don's untimely death came before we could put many of those survival features into practice, but we still plan to keep the website up and running. I am a member of their Board, and for the present, their communications person. We expect the website will remain relatively static for the remainder of the coming year as we get involved with the internal details of operation, and figure out how to replace Don's design and implementation skill. Don was a moderator on a related forum, Stamp Community Family. I will not post a link here, as I am not familiar with all of the rules. However I imagine many of you visit there as well. I plan to continue to communicate the Foundation's plans and activities there as we make decisions. I will try to replicate that information here, but my time is going to be limited for the immediate future. Mike Ludeman Director, Stamp Smarter Foundation, Inc.
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Post by mikel on Jan 25, 2017 21:43:22 GMT
SWH: The entire text of Follansbee's book The Stamps of the Mexican Revolution:1913-1916 is available for downloading as a PDF file from the website of the Collectors Club of Chicago, see the following link. You will have to scroll down a ways as they have a number of their previously published books available here as well. CCC Digital LibraryYou might also want to check out the MexiMail Forum, which has a format similar to The Stamp Forum Board.MexiMail
They have several areas where there are older threads on these stamps and you can also post questions there.
MexiMail has a loose affiliation with MEPSI, the Mexico Elmherst Philatelic Society International, the primary group for the stamps and postal history in the United States, and which has an international following. Their website can be found here. MEPSI
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Post by mikel on Oct 22, 2016 19:22:56 GMT
Falschung:
The request to post a series of label only images is reasonable, but as an alternative, I would recommend that an interested viewer simply download the two Exhibit pages which illustrate the ten label types, and perhaps print them as a handy reference. These encompass the types most commonly seen, and it is very helpful to have all of them visible when attempting to determine which of a particular type is present on a cover.
There are three additional types of labels besides the ten described in these two tables, each of which exists in only one variant. Two of these are found on a cover shown on pages in this Exhibit, and the third is one that was missing from my collection when this Exhibit was prepared several years ago.
I would also caution interested viewers that my descriptions in this Exhibit, and particularly the dimensions, DO NOT consistently match those found in the Scott Catalog. I believe my dimensions are more precise, but have not at this time undertaken the exercise to try and convince the editors at Scott and Amos Press.
If you use the Scott Catalog and examine the sections for the New York labels, I would also note that the valuations given are for labels used on cover, and that with a few exceptions, there is no (or more precisely, I have not observed) a market or collector interest in the individual labels off-cover.
The values for covers with these labels can range for $10 to "the skies the limit", and one should keep in mind that the particular stamps present, and the origin and destination of a cover, all have a greater impact on the value that the presence of a particular label. Covers mailed from "exotic" locations are more likely to have higher valuations than those which were mailed domestically, as are any to a uncommon destination. Obviously, covers from the 1880's are more likely to have value than those from the final years, when ten times the number of covers were processed each day.
Registered covers sent to foreign destinations during this 1883-1911 period also exist WITHOUT these labels, but for the most part, I believe that these were labels that were removed by a collector (the Postal Clerks often attached them over the stamps - to the annoyance of future collectors), or lost because they were not well attached to the cover. These labels were not authorized for use on foreign registered letters which were mailed to addresses in the United States, although a few exist, and several are illustrated in the exhibit. These are anomalies for which I do not have an explanation at this time.
I also see instances where a label has been added to fabricate such a registered cover, but the wrong type of label was use, because the literature which currently exhibits does not make it obvious as to which types or styles were used during the time period. My records - not yet published - allow me to determine in many instances when a label was added improperly simply because the number is out of sequence, even when the correct label was added to fabricate the cover.
Additional questions invited.
Mike
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Post by mikel on Oct 22, 2016 17:14:39 GMT
This thread is my initial "experiment" with attempting to load images from Photobucket, so please bear with me if it does not work the first time. The images are the 16 pages from a one frame - 16 page - exhibit, in which I have attempted to illustrate each of the various types of registration labels used on foreign registered mail which was dispatched through the New York Exchange Office. s50.photobucket.com/user/mml1942/slideshow/NY%20Reg%20Label%20ExhibitI have set this up as a slideshow. If this is too much too fast, please let me know and I'll return to 16 individual images. Background added after the slideshow worked.The use of these red/white registration labels was mandated by the Universal Postal Union effective Jan 1, 1883, and continued until Jan 24, 1911. Every registered letter which passed through the New York Exchange Office would have the label applied. The viewer will note that many of the covers did not originate in the United States. The New York Exchange Office (located within the New York General Post Office) also served as a transit point for a considerable volume of registered mail that originated outside the United States, but passed through the US and the New York Exchange Office en route to its destination. It was handled in essentially the same manner as domestically originated registered mail, and had these labels added as well. The labels were created and numbered in blocks of 100,000 labels numbered from 1 to 100,000. In 1883 when the label usage began, it took about 3-4 months to go through a sequence of 100,000 labels. By 1910, it took between 10 and 14 days! The total volume of registered mail handled a the New York Exchange Office between 1883 and 1911 was over 44 million letters and parcels. There is no reliable estimate of how many such covers may have survived. I have a small census working that includes data on perhaps 5,000 such covers. Mike
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Post by mikel on Oct 22, 2016 3:08:44 GMT
Tom:
The 1883 - 1911 period is not a random selection.
In 1883, the Universal Postal Union introduced a new instruction which required all international registered mail envelopes to have the registration indicated by a distinctive numbered label applied to each envelope (or card). The US introduced a paper label printed in red with a blue or blue/black number and the name of the Exchange Office printed on the label.
New York was the primary office for the exchange of mails (and naturally the registered mails) with much of the world, and represented probably 80% of all mail and registered mail sent from the US. San Francisco was the exchange office for mail to the Far East. There were about 25 other smaller exchange offices.
The use of these labels was discontinued on Jan 24, 1911, although there are a few covers where the labels were used after than date.
Once I figure out the technique for posting of images, I will try and illustrate a few examples of these covers.
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Post by mikel on Oct 21, 2016 14:46:18 GMT
Hello from the great state of Texas.
I am a stamp collector turned postal historian. I collect all sorts of materials related to Texas postal history, but especially registered mails from Texas through the 1940s.
I collect US registered mail to foreign destinations between 1883 and 1911, which use the red/white paper registration labels that appear on the covers, primarily those mailed through New York. I also collect the registered mails of Mexico.
I also study, research, and collect the forms and paperwork used by the US Post Office Department to operate the postal system.
I would be delighted to hear from anyone who has an interest in any phase of these subjects,
Mike Ludeman
APS 114777 / LM 3351 USSS 16068 USPCS 4264 MEPSI 3233
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