Postmark Calendar

You know I was always fascinated by that thread also but the organization of my collection hasn't come as far as documenting the dates in chronological order as of yet but the thought is compelling however! So if you have a cover with today's month and day on the time/date slug in the CDS you post it here correct? So if I had one with an August 12th CDS it would go here?

I have an awesome one coming up on the 18th! but so far nothing from today.

Jay and Zuzu,

The postmark on your cover, card or stamp should match the Month and Day that you are posting it.

I included postmark dates in my cover and card inventory so that has made it easier for me to find covers to post.

I haven't done the same with my stamps yet but I'm considering it -- this thread could provide the forcing function I need to get that effort up and running.

I'm looking forward to you joining in on the 18th as that will fill one of my gaps.

I could use some help on the 17th as well.

Also, just because a date has been covered doesn't preclude others from piling on -- that is a good thing as we all get to see a wider range of material.

Today's entry is a postal card postmarked on August 14, 1968 in Fairview, Tennessee.

The 4c red violet Lincoln postal card, precanceled with 3 printed red violet lines (Scott UX48), was issued on November 19, 1962.

The domestic rate for post cards had been increased from 4c to 5c on January 7, 1968.

The 1c green Andrew Jackson stamp (Scott 1209), issued on March 22, 1963, was applied to satisfy the postage rate increase.




The year on the cancel was difficult to read but retroReveal proved beneficial in determining it to be 1968.

Hold on to those for the 10th -- it will be the beginning of August again in no time!

Steve: I just wanted to offer up some moral support for this idea. I have many, many covers, US & foreign, but they're all in storage right now. Until I figure out what else to do with them, I could use them for their cancel dates. (And this indeed may be their new-found highest and best purpose.)

But I am realistically a couple of months away, at a minimum, from being able to tackle that. (I have a project deadline in early October I need to hit first.) But I'm with you here in concept.

Thanks for doing this!

-- Dave

most of mine are in the fall months for whatever reason? It wasn't planned though. hmmm I just looked and next one I'll be able to post will be this month on the 18th. Don't let me forget as I have 2 beautiful cover to scan and share the....eeek I'm excited! lol  hahahahaha

Folded letter- Front: Postmark is Today August 18th 1846.


Un-folded:

Page 1.



Page 2.



Back:

It is August 19th and I'm back in the game with a lone entry that is not directed at anyone on this forum.

The first day cover from Washington, DC in 1981 is for the 18c blue & black, perf. 11 Alcoholism stamp designed by John Boyd (Scott 1927).  

August 20th, 1934.  I wish I had the whole cover, whatever it was, but it is what it is.   On the SS President Hoover to somewhere.

We at least know from the U.S.T.P. Sea Post postmark that the piece was being sent somewhere in the Pacific.

Here is a picture of the S.S. President Hoover pierside in Manila:



A caption accompanying the photo (see here on flickr) reads:

This made me curious so I looked up the history of the ship on Wikipedia.  Very exciting!  Among her adventures, she was bombed by Chinese forces led by Claire L. Chennault while trying to evacuate American citizens from Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese war.  Chennault later got his own stamp, so I guess there were no hard feelings.  ha ha



Ryan

For August 22 this "Soldier's Mail" cover with "Free" frank postmarked Saint Louis, Missouri in 1945.

The corner card shows the sender was assigned to Stout Field in Indianapolis, Indiana.

During WWII the Army based training and troop/supply transport operations at Stout Field so the postmark from St. Louis suggests that Captain Levy might have been on a cross-country mission when the letter was mailed.

Jacob Arthur Meeks grew up at Muncie and at the age of seventeen, in 1873, was graduated from the high school there. He then became employed as a clerk in the grocery store of Maddy, Burt & Kirby and was thus connected for four years, meanwhile taking time off to take a commercial course in Miami College at Dayton, Ohio. He then went to Toledo and became employed there as a bookkeeper, but in 1880 returned to Muncie and became employed as bookkeeper in the office of James Boyce, who then still was operating his bagging factory here, and in that same year he bought an eighth interest in that concern, which in 1885 was sold to the Warren-Jones & Gratz Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Following this sale Mr. Meeks bought a half interest in the Boyce handle factory and has ever since been engaged in the manufacture of handles, thus now being at the head of what probably is the oldest continuing industrial enterprise in Muncie. This mill was destroyed by fire in April 1893, but was at once rebuilt and much enlarged. Two years later, in 1895, Mr. Meeks secured control of the handle, rivet and machinery department of this factory and has since continued the business, also operating there on East Washington Street a well-equipped general lumber mill. In 1919, Mr. Meeks took into this business as his partner, his son, Erle G. Meeks, and the business has since then been operated under the firm style of J. A. Meeks & Son and has developed an up-to-date and thriving industry. Though still connected with this firm, Erle G. Meeks is now living at Connersville, where he is the Secretary and Treasurer of the P.H.&E.M. Root Company, manufacturers of rotary blowers. He married Esther Johnston and has one child, a daughter, Sylvia. It was in 1879 that J. A. Meeks was united in marriage to Lydia J. Gray, daughter of J. M. Gray and wife, of Anderson, Indiana, and the latter of who was a member of the pioneer Shoemaker family of this region. Erle G. Meeks is their only child. -

Although it is a bit difficult to make out it is indeed August 23rd.