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Post by stamphinger on Oct 6, 2023 0:21:07 GMT
Below is an Atlanta, Georgia, USMC public relations department, penalty envelope that has been converted to private usage with "Free" franking. The conversion, however, is not the unusual feature -- it is the imprint of a "The Marines Have Landed" U.S.M C cinderella used as a cachet. The cachet cinderella is from the 1941 set of five USMC labels printed by Poster Stamp Publications Co., of Chicago, Illinois. I believe the set predates the U.S. entry in WW II by a few weeks. An example of the label used as a cachet is reproduced below with the cover.
The use of this label on official stationery suggests that the other four labels in the set may also have been used as cachets from the Georgia unit or from other cities. Has anyone ever seen another example of this cover or of others utilizing the other labels in the Cinderella set?
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Post by JeffS on Oct 6, 2023 2:12:31 GMT
GREAT COVER!
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Post by rod222 on Oct 6, 2023 4:10:27 GMT
In 2013 "Zuzu" posted a cover Fly with the Marines (attached cinderella) on this stampboard search for "Elwin Muzzey"   |
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 23, 2023 20:27:39 GMT
A cover from the U.S. 5th Army doesn't belong in this thread, but I am posting it here as a companion piece to my original post of Oct 5, 2023, see above. The two covers together may explain why Official Business Penalty envelopes had cachets.
This cover is similar to the U.S. Marine Corps penalty envelope in that this one also has a small cachet (5th Army logo) below the Official Business corner card. It is addressed to Patriot Harrisburg, PA, aka The Patriot News, Harrisburg's longest running newspaper. I found the USMC penalty cover unusual in that it had printed cachet of a cinderella from a five-stamp set featuring the Marine Corps. It and this 5th Army cover are also similar in that they are both out of their respective public relations sections. I believe these two cover were used by military public relations offices to send news items to hometown newspapers about local servicemen, i.e. promotions, decorations, and other personal or unit achievement news. The cachets set the covers apart from the more drab regular penalty envelopes. All speculation on my part, but I am watching for other similar covers, especially from the Navy, Coast Guard and U.S. Army Air Corps. Could be a new collecting field for me  Don StampHinger  |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 23, 2023 22:16:10 GMT
stamphingerThis cover is similar to the U.S. Marine Corps penalty envelope in that this one also has a small cachet (5th Army logo) Not aufait with US Army verbiage, would this be "5th Field Army" ? Corps? Division etc. ?
Not in my collection of "Spirit of 42" Army insignias
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 23, 2023 22:55:57 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Oct 23, 2023 23:51:34 GMT
stamphingerThanks Don, I have 5 (incomplete ) pages of these 
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Post by PostmasterGS on Oct 24, 2023 0:46:50 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Oct 24, 2023 1:25:25 GMT
PostmasterGSHi Postmaster, Wow! I have not visited that link for years, I had forgotten about it, a great cinderella resource. I am missing 5-8-18-31 and 47 (and any numbers above 48) I can live with gaps, do not want to deplete any other's collection. 
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Post by PostmasterGS on Oct 24, 2023 1:36:26 GMT
rod222, Here’s a complete original Spirit of 42 “album” with all 48 for pretty cheap.
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