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Post by smauggie on Apr 25, 2023 18:07:25 GMT
DPO: Osceola Mills, WI, known now as Osceola, WI.  |
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philatelia
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Live Long and Prosper - philatelically!
Posts: 2,616
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jul 22, 2023 18:28:08 GMT
A censored cover for my USA airmail collection and arrived today. I like that this lovely stamp is placed away from the border  . Sometimes you just find a cover interesting or esthetically pleasing and worth spending a dollar or two or ?.   |
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swvl
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Posts: 449
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 Aug 10, 2023 13:20:57 GMT
The U.S. recently issued a stamp honoring John Lewis, the late Civil Rights leader and longtime congressman from Georgia. Lewis is one of my heroes, so I've made a number of FDCs for this stamp. Here are two combo covers that I made using earlier FDCs commemorating the 1963 March on Washington, at which Lewis was one of the featured speakers. (The original covers are for Sc. 4804, from 2013, and Sc. 3937b, from 2005.) I've enjoyed seeing thematically linked combo covers like this from other cachetmakers, so I'm trying my hand at a few this year.   |
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,272
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 Aug 24, 2023 20:40:06 GMT
This wreck of a cover arrived today. If it had made an uneventful trip from Boston to Liverpool, NS I would not have even bothered with it. The fact that it got a little lost on the way made it more interesting and the price was right. It was mailed on August 21, 1909 and despite the detour it still made it to Liverpool on August 25/09. It is kind of cute that a young person used the back of the envelope to send a message to grandma. The c/o Huch Dunlop is a case of poor writing. It would actually have been a Hugh Dunlop, great grandfather of a friend of mine. The Dunlop family has had a long history in the town. My friend's younger brother carries the Hugh Dunlop name now.   |
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,009
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 24, 2023 21:14:18 GMT
Indistinct postal markings but a SPECIAL DELIVERY to be put on board a Ship on its arrival in Boston Mass. Awaiting arrival of Cunard "SS Scythia " on 12 Sept (Postmarked BOSTON SEP 11)  Just can't read the messy purple handstamp lower right |
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,244
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 26, 2023 21:13:08 GMT
Here's a clearer example from eBay which seems to fit the format, but a different station.  |
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,244
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 26, 2023 21:17:03 GMT
U.S. Air Force Day, Gen Billy Mitchell memorial cover, 1948  |
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,009
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 26, 2023 21:34:18 GMT
Thanks JeffS , from your clearer strike. I can now work out FEE PAID at
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swvl
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Posts: 449
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 Sept 17, 2023 21:23:29 GMT
Many FDC collectors in the U.S. trace the origins of our hobby to Sept. 1, 1923, when publisher George W. Linn created a first-day cover for the newly issued Warren Harding memorial stamp (Scott 610). He did this using an envelope with a small commemorative text note in the lower-left-hand corner, which makes this the first cacheted FDC. Here’s a cover produced by Linn’s Stamp News to mark the centenary, with a pictorial postmark from Marion, Ohio, where Linn serviced that first FDC. This cover was printed on a postcard, so it’s actually a maxicard of sorts. It’s a nice memento. I’m working on a cover of my own to mark the same milestone, which I’ll post when it’s done. Here's to another 100 years of cacheted FDCs!  |
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. Sometimes you just find a cover interesting or esthetically pleasing and worth spending a dollar or two or ?.
