JeffS
Member 
Posts: 2,837
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
|
Post by JeffS on Jan 31, 2024 5:50:30 GMT
This air letter design and its postage indicium which includes a bunch of citrus placed ornamentally in the upper right corner of the vignette comes in several variations. If someone has access to the Higgins and Gage postal stationery catalog, can you please scan the pertinent catalog section. Or any other reference for that matter. I have 2 varieties with text in 3 lines and 4 I've seen a similar with different typesetting referred to as a provisional issue sent to only two post offices, as well as a printing (s) on light blue paper.  The indicium design duplicates that of a postage stamp, with and without the portrait of KGVI. Thank you, Jeff |
|
rod222
Member
Posts: 11,043 
What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
|
Post by rod222 on Jan 31, 2024 7:25:08 GMT
This air letter design and its postage indicium which includes a bunch of citrus placed ornamentally in the upper right corner of the vignette comes in several variations. If someone has access to the Higgins and Gage postal stationery catalog, can you please scan the pertinent catalog section. Or any other reference for that matter. I have 2 varieties with text in 3 lines and 4 I've seen a similar with different typesetting referred to as a provisional issue sent to only two post offices, as well as a printing (s) on light blue paper. The indicium design duplicates that of a postage stamp, with and without the portrait of KGVI. Thank you, Jeff  |
|
JeffS
Member
Posts: 2,837
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
|
Post by JeffS on Feb 5, 2024 21:35:35 GMT
This 6-pence KGVI air letter uses the same design as the concurrent 6-pence adhesive. I will add this to my Oranges Philately project as the design includes a cluster of oranges in the upper-right corner.
Registered air letters (or aerogrammes) are not common as air letters were not supposed to have contents such as stamps, etc. Often registered air letters were intentional productions of collectors to produce an unusual item. The message typed therein concerns a past due account. While stamps are not specifically mentioned, it is apparently from a stamp dealer.
The added 3-pence adhesive pays the registration fee. Note the air letter was forwarded to a new address.
Mr. Wiki tells us this about L. Barrington Smith, "As a stamp dealer, Barrington Smith dealt principally in used British Commonwealth stamps, but the home-made and naive patriotic covers that he sold in bulk during the war years have become collectable in their own right. Barrington Smith traded from 1935 until about 1962, initially as a printer, soon becoming a stamp dealer and later a stamp wholesaler and supplier of "tropical novelties"
|
|
rod222
Member
Posts: 11,043
What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
|
Post by rod222 on Feb 6, 2024 1:11:06 GMT
Mr. Wiki tells us this about L. Barrington Smith, "As a stamp dealer, Barrington Smith dealt principally in used British Commonwealth stamps, but the home-made and naive patriotic covers that he sold in bulk during the war years have become collectable in their own right. Barrington Smith traded from 1935 until about 1962, initially as a printer, soon becoming a stamp dealer and later a stamp wholesaler and supplier of "tropical novelties" L Barrington Smith "Buccaneer Hobby Club"     |
|
JeffS
Member
Posts: 2,837
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
|
Post by JeffS on Feb 6, 2024 1:20:52 GMT
Looks like he was quite the cover merchant  |
|
