renden
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What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Oct 8, 2020 17:23:03 GMT
I do not collect classic US covers and these 2 are probably the only ones I have as "old" ccovers ! No Year on this one but the stamp dates back to 1870 if I am not in error (grill or not ??) - Eagle Pass, TX (thanks JeffS )   |
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daveg28
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What I collect: U.S., Canada, Great Britain & Commonwealth, France (esp. 1950-80), DDR, USSR
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Post by daveg28 on Oct 8, 2020 19:22:29 GMT
Berea, Ohio! Home of my daughter's school...Baldwin-Wallace College.
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Beryllium Guy
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps 1840-1930
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Oct 8, 2020 19:37:16 GMT
Thanks for posting these classic covers, Rene ( renden)! Like daveg28, I also have a connection to Berea, which is nowadays considered a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio--my hometown. When I was a kid, we thought of Berea as a more of a neighboring small town, and I can remember going there on Sunday afternoon drives as a family to walk around the town. We used to go to a place there that was famous for its popcorn.... I had to look it up, but it was apparently called Gray's Candy Kitchen, and it closed in 1970. You really took me back in time there. I hadn't thought about that in years!  |
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renden
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What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Nov 27, 2020 18:23:32 GMT
Picked this USA thread to show off a cover sent by Londonbus1 as part of my Mystery lot, purchased a few months ago - did scan the package in proper thread This cover, sent Registered Mail from N.Y to London has many interesting aspects, # 1 being the date: 6-9-1894 #2 the stamps: 3 X 15¢ Henry Clay Sc # 227 and 1 X 3¢ Jackson.....all of great CV (on cover) according to Scott 2019 Specialized cat. The cancel is also special ! Thanks again, LB1 !!!  |
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mikeclevenger
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What I collect: Ohio Tax Stamps, Ohio & Georgia Revenues, US Revenues, US FDC's, & Germany Classics
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Post by mikeclevenger on Nov 28, 2020 13:05:43 GMT
Picked this USA thread to show off a cover sent by Londonbus1 as part of my Mystery lot, purchased a few months ago (See previous post for image.) This is an amazing cover. The handwriting makes it look even better. |
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tomiseksj
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Posts: 6,385
What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 17, 2021 15:26:00 GMT
Another recent addition to my hometown collection. The surcharged 2 cent on 3 cent stamped envelope (Scott U458) was postmarked in Cicero, Illinois on November 16, 1920. The addressee, Forrest P. Hand of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a collector and approval dealer; he also served as the Secretary of the Philadelphia Stamp Club. The note inside the cover, written by Warren Aberle of Cicero, requested that stamps be sent to him on approval.   Shown below is an ad for Hand's approval service that appeared in the August 1928 edition of Popular Mechanics (note that he claimed to be offering the "BEST one-cent approvals in America.".  |
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on May 3, 2021 22:57:37 GMT
This 1892 cover I believe was among my dad's collection. The US stamp SC 219D is not all that interesting but I like that it was mailed to Port Medway, Queens County, NS and passed through the Liverpool, NS post office. The added point of interest is that it was sent by a stamp dealer in Nebraska who used a Newfoundland stamp image with their address.  Max Bowlby was a prominent business man in Queens County at that time and a very early collector.  The Liverpool, Nova Scotia postmark.  I happen to have this mint copy of the Newfoundland stamp shown on the cover. Sc. 30 |
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WERT
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Post by WERT on May 27, 2021 14:43:45 GMT
Enlistment for allied youth - banning liquor. Here is a nice cover and letters for my American friends signed by Robert C. Roff...Enjoy.
Robert
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WERT
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Post by WERT on Jul 17, 2021 14:02:49 GMT
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Post by smauggie on Jul 17, 2021 19:31:05 GMT
The 3 is actually an auxiliary marking indicating 3 cents due since the letter was forwarded. |
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Post by daniel on Jul 18, 2021 0:39:32 GMT
At the risk of sounding like Gru from 'Despicable Me', I can lay claim to owning The Statue of Liberty (and not the one in Las Vegas!). Well, a part of it anyway. This is a First Day Cover for the F A Bartholdi, Sculptor of The Statue of Liberty, stamp issued on July 18th 1985, New York. It is the insert, shown below the cover, that is of particular interest. The Liberty 'seal contains actual copper which was removed from the Statue during restoration'.
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WERT
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Post by WERT on Aug 31, 2021 1:00:50 GMT
Here is a 1931 "Allied Youth" letter...Tried to find an exact same cancel, and i can't find one anywhere..Help needed. Robert
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 21, 2022 17:24:13 GMT
Given the huge number of patriotic cachets produced during WW II I am surprised that I cannot find a thread devoted to them. That being the case, I post an image of this cover here. It is out of my Iowa cover collection where I placed it because of its addressee who was an avid collector of patriotic covers.
I find the cachet unusual for its somewhat strange and unlikely subject matter. Unlikely because my guess is most combat aviators of WW II were not thinking about sources of their ammunition and strange because I find it difficult to believe a son would write to his mother about the probability of killing an enemy using her cooking fats. The cachet has to be pure propaganda, which it was. I wish I knew who produced the cachet and if there were other similar ones.
The subject matter of the U.S. government collecting surplus cooking fats is, however, true. Early in WW II, The Office of Price Administration created an American Fat Salvage Committee to urge American housewives to save and contribute excess fats from cooking. The alleged purpose was for manufacture of explosives. In reality it was more for the soap industry which also used large amounts of glycerin to manufacture its products. Making munitions, however, seemed more patriotic than making soap.
Contributors of cooking fat received about 4 cents per pound, plus two ration coupons for the purchase of lard or butter. The program was not deemed overly successful with only about 50% of households participating.
Don StampHinger
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chrischross
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Post by chrischross on Feb 21, 2022 17:38:16 GMT
The program was not deemed overly successful with only about 50% of households participating. Interesting in the sense that if you said today 50% of all households participated, that would be considered wildly successful. Just goes to show the levels of unity involved around shared sacrifice on the home front during the WW II era. Great cover! |
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Feb 21, 2022 20:48:21 GMT
stamphinger Hey Don, in the book United States Patriotic Envelopes of World War II by Lawrence Sherman, on page176 it is listed with a note re publisher as "Johns Cov" and is elsewhere identified as Johnson Cover Press. Says there should be an imprint of "JCP" somewhere in the cachet.
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 21, 2022 23:43:46 GMT
Hi JeffS Thanks for the info. I don't see the JCP in the cachet. There is a possible inscription right at end of the left arm of the chair the mom is sitting in. Don't have a magnifier strong enough to see if it is a JCP. There is, however, a penciled note on the reverse that reads Johns Covers. I thought it was, perhaps, a cover dealer that had offered the cover in the past. Now I know otherwise. Don |
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 4, 2022 17:36:11 GMT
I collect Zunks covers when I can find them at a reasonable, to me, price and recently acquired this one commemorating the first day of spring at Bills Place, Pennsylvania (the Zunks commemorated most anything). The posting at Bills Place started me thinking and I remembered that I once had a post card from there. I had tried to sell it on eBay several times with no bids, so I put it in my unsalable box where it has remained for a few years. With a little digging, I found it and realized that I now had a place for it in my cover collection. It has become a companion piece to this Zunks cover.
There are many claims for the smallest post office in the United States and I don't know which one is the winner, but Bills Place looks like a strong contender. The post office is the small appendage on the extreme right of the main building in the post card image. Bills Place also included a cafe, souvenir shop and filling station. Being on U.S. Highway 30, (the Lincoln Highway), a lot of traffic went past Bills Place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the completion of Interstate 70/76 causes south central Pennsylvania thru traffic to bypass the once popular tourist stop. I believe the post office has also closed.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 12, 2022 17:28:59 GMT
I bought this philatelically prepared cover for its novel presentation of steamship lines' flags and funnels liveries. I learned of steamship lines' practice of painting the funnels of its ships with the line's colors and logo from a speaker on a cruise ship who gave a series of lectures about ships. Flags and funnel markings was one of the subjects, so when I saw this cover offered on eBay I bid on it successfully.
It is interesting to me for it presentation of the small labels to form a V for Victory symbol and the 1944 postmark making it a homemade patriotic cover. Another collecting point is the bullseye cancel on the 1937 5 cents Annapolis stamp commemorating the U.S. Navy, Sc. 794. The small labels are numbered in the 600 and 700 hundreds indicating that there was a large sheet of them, probably from a set depicting the colors of companies worldwide.
Most interesting to me, however, is the label with the flag and funnel colors of the States Steamship Lines, the one with the white swastika on the red background. It appears that the States S.S. company was a shipper from the U.S. west coast to Asian ports. An internet search also indicated it wisely changed its logo after the start of WW II in 1939.
While there is a name and address at the top front of the cover, I doubt it went through the mails. Most likely a hand back. Nothing on the revers, but still, it is an interesting item. I've not seen another like it before this one turned up.
Don StampHinger
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swvl
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What I collect: FDCs, plus some US modern and new issues. Topical interests include music, art, literature, baseball, space...
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Post by swvl on Mar 12, 2022 23:02:35 GMT
Here are some creative FDCs for USPS’ recent series of Additional Ounce Forever stamps. The first two were produced by Fleetwood, each one making up the first-class postage rate at the time by using one or more older denominated stamps plus the value of the Additional Ounce (.22 in June 2015, .20 as of January 2021). Of course these FDCs weigh no more than an ounce each, so only the current first-class rate was needed. I particularly like the way the penguins and those 14-cent Iceboats tell a story together.   Then there’s this FDC created by Don Neal of 6° Cachets in 2017. The Additional Ounce stamp at the time was worth 21 cents and featured a design called Uncle Sam’s Hat. The cachet interprets this with an assortment of images of actor Samuel L. Jackson wearing various hats. That riff on the name of the stamp is funny enough to make up for the regular old flag definitive carrying the rest of the postage for me.  I think these three are the only Additional Ounce Forever stamps issued under that name by USPS. Am I missing anything? |
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cara
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Post by cara on May 1, 2022 19:12:28 GMT
Can someone tell me something about this cover? I read in a German forum that "Penny Post" are no stamps, but listed in Scott catalogue. I searched on TSF and I found a post from I.L.S. in 2014 with another penny post "stamp" and a Scott number. Maybe someone could have a look, whether this penny post is in Scott, too and can give me some more information. In Michel I could not find it. It is a cover from the US collection I recently bought. Thanks in advance cara  |
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on May 1, 2022 19:28:14 GMT
Can someone tell me something about this cover? I read in a German forum that "Penny Post" are no stamps, but listed in Scott catalogue. I searched on TSF and I found a post from I.L.S. in 2014 with another penny post "stamp" and a Scott number. Maybe someone could have a look, whether this penny post is in Scott, too and can give me some more information. In Michel I could not find it. It is a cover from the US collection I recently bought. Thanks in advance cara I found this for you in my 1984 Scott US specialty catalogue. It is a well known local post with many listings on eBay.  |
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cara
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What I collect: Germany (FRG, GDR, Berlin); occupied Germany 1945-1949, Deutsches Reich 1872-1945, Switzerland, USA (newbie)
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Post by cara on May 1, 2022 19:42:36 GMT
Thank you very much hdm1950. That was a really fast reply. It is obviously the L40. Now I can put it in the right place of my collection  Thanks again Cara |
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,886
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on May 1, 2022 20:44:11 GMT
Thank you very much hdm1950 . That was a really fast reply. It is obviously the L40. Now I can put it in the right place of my collection  Thanks again Cara Researching your post cara sent me looking to see what I had in local posts of the US. Just now I found a thread with several similar to yours. thestampforum.boards.net/thread/1729/locals-stamps |
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Londonbus1
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What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on May 1, 2022 20:59:22 GMT
Nice to see an example acid tied on cover. Odd to note the catalogue value hardly rose in 22 years !
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Post by mdroth on May 2, 2022 2:59:38 GMT
Hi Cara,
Nice cover!
It is a US local.
Significant forgeries exist - and hate to say it, but I suspect this is one of them...
Londonbus's comment - that it is 'acid tied' on cover - is not convincing.
Looks a bit too clean to me. Postmark / addressing - all way to clean to convince me that this is a 'real' cover...
Awesome piece. Definitely a keeper!
But there are way more forgeries of this stamp out there than originals. Be careful!!
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cara
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What I collect: Germany (FRG, GDR, Berlin); occupied Germany 1945-1949, Deutsches Reich 1872-1945, Switzerland, USA (newbie)
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Post by cara on May 2, 2022 8:50:30 GMT
Thank you for your comment and assessment mdroth. As a collector of German stamps I'am aware of the problems with forgeries in general. I will keep the cover being aware that it could be a forgery. Because of the small CV I will not have an examination. Thanks cara |
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renden
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Post by renden on May 7, 2022 17:04:54 GMT
One of the most beautiful USA FDC, Oct 2, 2008 - Scott 4352d - Eastern Snake - the Dunes pic seems to be in silk - From the Nature of America series Problem # 1 - it does not fit into a 4 1/8 X 9 1/2 (inch) envelope !! However, for same shipping cost, it fits into a 5 7/8 X 9 5/8 envelope Available (since I have 2 copies )- late dad bought everything in multiples LOL ! Ist "I want it" gets it shipped Monday daveg28....better hurry  |
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swvl
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Post by swvl on May 7, 2022 17:39:34 GMT
I’ll take it renden if it’s still available! Thanks!! |
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renden
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Post by renden on May 7, 2022 18:00:12 GMT
I’ll take it renden if it’s still available! Thanks!! It is yours, My friend !! I will check the address list (not there) - send it to me by PM René |
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daveg28
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Post by daveg28 on May 7, 2022 18:49:06 GMT
Dang. I want it, but I guess I wasn't fast enough. I'm right on the Great Lakes, so it would be a good one to have.
Just my luck as I don't check in as often on the weekend.
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