US: Covers: General

Sorry about that daveg28 and thanks again, René!

Another beautiful US cover (duplicate).


René

One of the new flag on barn presorts arrived on a mailpiece yesterday. The cover was from a financial services company inviting us to a dinner at a local restaurant in order to get us to use their retirement services. Apparently Sc. nos. for these stamps are not available yet as they were issued less than a month ago, on April 14. This stamp is Barn in Winter.

Presidential Inauguration Covers

Two covers for Inauguration Day for Richard Nixon, Jan 20 1973, and Ronald Reagan, Jan 20 1981. Sarzin metallic cachet and Artcraft cachet.

Landing of the Mayflower and American Revolution Bicentennial Covers

Two First Day Covers. For The Landing of the Pilgrims in 1620, Plymouth Nov 21 1970 and American Revolution Bicentennial, Washington Jul 4 1971. Art Craft and Fleetwood cachets.

The last several years our eye doctor has been regularly reminding my wife and I of our appointments with these tidy little postcards with some of my favorite US stamp issues, the forever postcard rate stamps. Starting with the seashells and shore birds, and lately the coral reef stamps, I have quite a nice little collection of these postcards with both coil and sheet stamps from all of the issues I just named. I am waiting for them to use up their supply of coral reef issues and move onto the barns.

Here's an odd cover from the Dallas chapter of the Society of Israel Philatelists. Issued to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Palestine Mandate Waterlow Printings 1922- 1972. At least it has a Palestine, Texas cancel.

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Actually this “Palestine” Texas town has no relationship to the mid-East Palestine. It was named after Palestine Illinois, and has a distinctive pronunciation of pales-“teen.” Crazy Texans “

I had to smile when I came across this eBay lot, a pair of show covers that I designed way back in 1975. 

Another cover I kept for no particular reason would fit in a special events thread if there was one but this thread works as well. This cover was issued in 1940 to mark the National Dairy Co-operative Centennial. It would appear there was a conference in Lake Mills, Wisconsin on July 20-21-22, 1940 to celebrate this event. 

another cover from a box which came to me from inheriting my uncles collection.  He inherited a co-workers collection and I believe this was from that collection. It was in a box which contained a number of letters and cards addresses to his co-worker, but also a number4 of letters addresses to Mr. L. J. Barr. The address is a residence. The handwriting on the end says something to the effect of "Notes of meeting to rescind call for spc  mtgs / ? " not really important. What attracted me was the  cancellation. Although this was sent Aug 9, 1912, the Worlds Panema-Pacific Exposition of San Francisco i1925 was already be promoted.  The stamp I think is fairly common


Update: I have found several more covers addressed to Mr. Barr, and it appears he moved from Nebraska to Los Angeles prior to 1911, and was also an attorney (letters addressed to , Esq).

Several other letters are from attorneys/law firms both to the Nebraska address as well as the Los Angeles address in the current (above) time frame, as well as an additional letter from Prudential Improvement Company, and I suspect that there was some type of legal situation underway. A letter from Prudential to Mr. Barr on Aug 1-. 1912 (one day later) has the following- " hand written   notes- " Notice of PLC meeting to authorize  pms (permission) to vote 9not legible) 8th"

by October 1912, Mr. Barr had relocated to San Francisco. ( a letter from another atty in Los Angeles )

I recently came across a couple of interesting covers in my collection. As far as I can tell, USPS had a short-lived program about 25 years ago where collectors could buy a cover canceled “LAST DAY OF SALE” when a stamp was being withdrawn. It seems like this mostly happened circa 1997-1998 with popular commemoratives that had been issued a couple of years before that.

These ones are dual-cancelled, with both first-day and last-day postmarks. I must have picked them up back then. I think they’re kind of cool, even without cachets. Anyone else recall anything about these?

My small stash of US covers includes this one from American Airlines that includes a letter from C.R. Smith, the CEO at the date of mailing on January 25, 1959. The cover is to commemorate the First Jet Air Mail Service Across the U.S.A.. When I found it in a job lot I thought it was going to be special with a navy connection. Sadly like so many US covers of this era they turn out to be fairly common. The admirals referred to were members of the Admirals Club, the first member's only airline lounge system that came about while Cyrus Rowlett "C.R." Smith was the CEO.