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Post by I.L.S. on Jun 24, 2014 9:59:34 GMT
June 24th 1939 Airmail N.Transatlantic New York, First Flight from New York to Dublin, Ireland .
The first airplane flight though was by a character named "wrongway Corrigan". Where we get the saying "flying by the seat of your pants" -unconfirmed- I don't think that there was any MAIL on that flight however...a little more research is needed here. 
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Post by Ryan on Jun 24, 2014 10:06:00 GMT
June 24 ... I came across this stamp from Canada the other day in a collection that was filled with stamps cancelled in the greater Vancouver area, with most from Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge. This town, Haney, was one I had never heard of before. It turns out it's now a neighbourhood / community in Maple Ridge, so I suspect the Haney cancellation is now obsolete, but I don't know when it would have turned into a dead post office. The Archives Canada online database has no info past 1981, and in that database there is no reference to the post office having closed (or, more likely, transferred to Maple Ridge).  Ryan |
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Post by I.L.S. on Jun 24, 2014 10:13:51 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Jun 24, 2014 13:25:25 GMT
June 24 ... I came across this stamp from Canada the other day in a collection that was filled with stamps cancelled in the greater Vancouver area, with most from Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge. This town, Haney, was one I had never heard of before. It turns out it's now a neighbourhood / community in Maple Ridge, so I suspect the Haney cancellation is now obsolete, but I don't know when it would have turned into a dead post office. The Archives Canada online database has no info past 1981, and in that database there is no reference to the post office having closed (or, more likely, transferred to Maple Ridge). Ryan  |
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Post by Ryan on Jun 24, 2014 19:46:32 GMT
And Zuzu claims to have the Google-Fu ... impressive work, Sir Rodney.
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Post by alanl on Jun 24, 2014 22:49:35 GMT
It`s June 24th in Bradford, West Yorkshire and Acton, Ealing, London.  |
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Post by vasia on Jun 25, 2014 10:51:15 GMT
June 25th, 1913
70k stamp from the commemorative series for the "300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty". Cancelled in Vindava, present-day Ventsplis in northwestern Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire.
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Post by I.L.S. on Jun 25, 2014 11:11:24 GMT
June 25th 1913 ~ PERFECTO Cigars, Cossayunga NY. 1913 F&D
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Post by alanl on Jun 25, 2014 22:48:40 GMT
Oslo, Norway on June 25th.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jun 26, 2014 0:54:09 GMT
June 25Postmarked with a 30mm red "BOSTON/Mas." CDS, manuscript "6" (the zone rate in effect for single letters not over 30 miles) and "Single" markings. Docketing on the reverse records receipt on June 27, 1836 and sender, James M. Oliphant. 
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Post by I.L.S. on Jun 26, 2014 11:08:50 GMT
June 26th J.S. Pa. RPPC (Real Picture Post Cards) It wasn’t until the Dec. 24, 1901, Post Card Act deregulated the mailing of cards that privately produced picture postcards as we now know them were allowed to be produced and mailed for a penny.   |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jun 26, 2014 13:52:55 GMT
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Post by alanl on Jun 26, 2014 23:19:52 GMT
Nairobi, Kenya on June 26th.  |
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Post by Ryan on Jun 27, 2014 8:08:06 GMT
June 27 ... here's a Canadian revenue stamp, a British Columbia law stamp that would also fit along with James' post of a much older issue of the same basic design. In my case, the cancellation is in much better shape than the stamp (which has been pierced in the middle by a staple), so I've put it here instead.  Ryan |
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Post by I.L.S. on Jun 27, 2014 10:05:05 GMT
June 27th Gulfport, Mo.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jun 27, 2014 13:03:55 GMT
June 27 (and July 2)The 3c light violet, perf. 11x10.5 Vermont Statehood, 150th anniversary commemorative on this cover (Scott 903) was issued on March 4, 1941. The cover bears two postmarks: Houston, Texas on this date in 1941 and Ferriday, Louisiana on July 2, 1941.  
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Post by vasia on Jun 27, 2014 15:28:51 GMT
June 27th, 1930
Cover from Тоцкое п.т. (Samara) to a location in nearby Orenburg oblast. Express sending with large “B” pink label (“B” stands for “ВАЖНОЕ” - “Vazhnoe” = important) and handwritten “speshnaya” = express. Franked correctly at the 70k express rate (20k for registered letter + 50k Express fee) with 10k definitive + strip of 3 of 20k "Industrial Loan" commemorative. The non-standard registration label is on cream paper, perfed, with a pre-printed registration number.
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Post by alanl on Jun 27, 2014 22:54:26 GMT
It`s June the 27th in Drammen, Norway and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.  |
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Post by I.L.S. on Jun 28, 2014 9:11:21 GMT
June 28th 1922- ornate (intaglio press) J.A. Rigby Cigar Co. bill-head.
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Post by vasia on Jun 28, 2014 15:00:15 GMT
June 28th, 1993
Post-Soviet Union letter mailed within Nikolaev in Ukraine. Apparently sent free-frank: the violet rectangular handstamp translates to "OFFICIAL Ministerial communication". Notice the use of Soviet stationery and postmark.
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Post by Ryan on Jun 28, 2014 20:53:24 GMT
June 28th, 1993
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Post-Soviet Union letter mailed within Nikolaev in Ukraine. Apparently sent free-frank: the violet rectangular handstamp translates to "OFFICIAL Ministerial communication". Notice the use of Soviet stationery and postmark.
Isn't it rather unusual to see a "CCCP" postmark in use this late in Ukraine? Especially considering the date is a year and a half after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and also considering that Nikolaev / Mikolaiv is a large city, about a half million inhabitants. It's hard to believe that the post office of a city that large would still be using old equipment emblazoned with symbols of the "occupying territory". Did diplomatic / ministerial offices have their own cancellation equipment to bypass normal postal channels? Ryan PS - I'm not overly old yet but I'm old enough that I still want to say " The Ukraine" and I have to stop myself all the time. I always say "The Sudan" as well! Drat and blast. |
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Post by alanl on Jun 28, 2014 22:32:37 GMT
June 28th at Kingston Upon Thames, London.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jun 29, 2014 2:50:01 GMT
June 28Registered letter sent from Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England in 1892.  
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Post by vasia on Jun 29, 2014 6:16:27 GMT
Isn't it rather unusual to see a "CCCP" postmark in use this late in Ukraine? Especially considering the date is a year and a half after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and also considering that Nikolaev / Mikolaiv is a large city, about a half million inhabitants. It's hard to believe that the post office of a city that large would still be using old equipment emblazoned with symbols of the "occupying territory". Did diplomatic / ministerial offices have their own cancellation equipment to bypass normal postal channels? Ryan, the use of Soviet postmarks was widespread practice until 1994 (see the cover I showed for June 9th with the use of a Soviet postmark from Kiev and for June 10th with a similar use + the use of an envelope with the USSR emblem from Kharkov). I guess economic hard times and the lack of the necessary funds made any bravado about "occupying power" a luxury. Not to mention the fact that common people in Nikolaev, Kharkov or Kiev did not think about the Soviet years along these lines (at least back in 1993-4). |
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Post by alanl on Jun 29, 2014 22:59:45 GMT
June 29th at Nairn, Scotland and Oldham, Lancashire, England.  And Tonsberg, Norway.  |
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Post by vasia on Jun 30, 2014 11:31:33 GMT
June 30th, 1922
Cover from Petrograd / Nikol. Vokz. (Nikolaevsky railway station - oval postmark) to Innsbruck, Austria, 12/7/1922. Registered with interesting “provisional” large ZAKAZNOE handstamp in place of registration label (this appears to be an official handstamp, rather than a privately-applied one). Franked at 400.000 Rubles with 4x10k revalued Arms – Imperial arms stamps had been revalued to rubles in 1920 and subsequently remained in use thus, following the huge leaps in the value of the currency due to inflation. During the period in question: 1k = 10.000 rubles.
Siegfried Graubart (1890-1963), to whom the cover is addressed, served as a soldier in the Russian-Polish front in 1914-15. Between 1915 and 1920 he was a war prisoner in Russia, first in Khita and then in Vladivostok, before returning to Austria through the US. Graubart’s future wife, Ada (Odea) Soloweitschik, mentioned as the recipient of the letter on the front, was a Russian, born in Khita, who left Russia in 1921 through Vladivostok-Singapore-Trieste-Austria.
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Post by alanl on Jun 30, 2014 22:52:22 GMT
Two commemoratives from Norway on the last day of June. Oslo and Tveita(Oslo).  |
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