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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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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,404
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, 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: 523
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: 1,600
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: 3,264
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: 2,602
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: 2,602
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: 3,264
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 East Boston Sta. Boston Mass
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swvl
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Posts: 523
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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swvl
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Posts: 523
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 Oct 6, 2023 1:27:44 GMT
As I mentioned above, I made a couple of covers to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the modern first-day cover. There were several postmarks on this theme offered at the Great American Stamp Show, but this first one was my favorite, with a cancel that's a replica of George Linn's famous FDC from 1923. The second one was offered in Marion, Ohio, on the anniversary of that same famous event. (Well, it's famous to first-day cover collectors.) 1. 2.
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swvl
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Posts: 523
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 Dec 20, 2023 23:09:20 GMT
I'm fond of the alphabet series of rate-change stamps issued by USPS between 1978 and 1998. For anyone who's not familiar, these were issued whenever USPS knew that it wanted to increase the rate for a first-class stamp, but was waiting for congressional approval of the precise new number; they printed stamps with non-numerical indicators (A, B, C...) in advance so they'd have them ready right away when the rate changed. The series eventually got up to H before they gave up on this plan and started issuing stamps that just say "First Class" for these situations — and, eventually, shifted entirely to Forever stamps, which are always worth whatever the current first-class rate is. I particularly like the often-wry commentary that cachetmakers put on FDCs as this series went on. Here's one for the A stamp and stationery, issued in May 1978, showing how these issues bridged the gap when the rate went from 13 cents to 15 cents: Three years later, in March 1981, the rate went up again to 18 cents (B). This cachetmaker wondered where it was all headed: "The Postal Service has not revealed what symbol it plans to use for undenominated issues after the alphabet is exhausted." Just seven months later, in October 1981, the rate went up again, this time to 20 cents (C). This cachetmaker, too, had visions of an endless series of letter-denoted increases: Fun stuff, at least to me. I have lots more in this vein, and might come back to share more soon.
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anilkhemlani
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collect worldwide stamps
Posts: 458
What I collect: Stamps from all over the world + FDC
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Post by anilkhemlani on Mar 24, 2024 17:18:51 GMT
got two us covers one from 1945 and another from 1948
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