kasvik
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Posts: 606
What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Oct 24, 2023 21:21:38 GMT
Great card, kasvik! Early members of the Mile High Club??? Don
Don! I truly had not thought of that.
Well, somebody had to invent it.
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armenin2000
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I am 73 years old. I have been collecting stamps since 1963. My interests are Greater Russia. Stamps
Posts: 320
What I collect: Greater Russia. Stamps, covers , maxcards
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Post by armenin2000 on Nov 21, 2023 21:51:58 GMT
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kasvik
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Posts: 606
What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Mar 31, 2024 21:04:55 GMT
This one stumped me. I bought a few Carl Seeg letters home to Pforzheim. Somebody in the family must have collected; taste for baroque postage. This one, from 1933, looks simple enough, but what's going on here?
- Five cents normal surface rate international to France--on the Cunard RMS Berengaria--because there was no scheduled trans-Atlantic air mail yet.
- Then air mail from Paris (back cancel) to Frankfurt (front cancel). Apparently European air mail cost just three cents more?
- And presumably a couple normal trains: Frankfurt to Karlsruhe, then to Pforzheim.
The three cent European air mail leg is new to me. Seems very cheap. Can that be right? No sign of postage due. Heck if I know.
Added 2 April: The answer is in Wawrukiewicz and Brecher’s U.S. International Postal Rates, 1872-1996. The section on international air mail rates covers the extraordinary period, starting around 1925-28, when short-distance air mail began scheduled service, but long-distance, especially trans-Atlantic, was still in the future. A new rate had to be created for partial air mail service. The UPU was hyperactive hammering the details. For mail from America, this meant air mail legs between European airports.
At p. 142, the rate for an American letter, with an air mail leg from Paris to Germany: three centers extra.
This is exactly what we see below.
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rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Apr 1, 2024 0:13:12 GMT
This one stumped me. I bought a few Carl Seeg letters home to Pforzheim. Somebody in the family must have collected; taste for baroque postage. This one, from 1933, looks simple enough, but what's going on here?
- Five cents normal surface rate international to France--on the Cunard RMS Berengaria--because there was no scheduled trans-Atlantic air mail yet.
Interesting sideline RMS Berengaria Was larger than the Titanic wiki  |
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 1, 2024 16:26:49 GMT
@kasvik
The domestic (U.S.) airmail rate in 1933 was 8 cents for the first ounce.
Don
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Post by captphil on Jul 20, 2024 5:03:13 GMT
US Canal Zone to Paris, January 1935.  |
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