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Post by smauggie on Aug 27, 2017 21:04:42 GMT
Duluth, Minnesota
January 6, 1937Nice winged globe etiquette with national colors. 
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Post by smauggie on Sept 10, 2017 6:52:50 GMT
Here is an unusual air mail envelope 5x6 inches. It is primarily blue with some white in the margins and bars of blue and red symbolizing the national colors. It has an art deco-looking font.  |
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Post by smauggie on Sept 12, 2017 2:29:33 GMT
Via Air Mail Etiquette
Via Air Mail in national colors with alternating red and blue diagonal bars on a field of white. The words have red "contrails".
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DouglasGPerry
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Post by DouglasGPerry on Sept 12, 2017 13:17:19 GMT
My current favorite air mail cover in my collection. The flying clipper appears grey, but it is actually printed in shiny, metallic-like silver ink. I wish my scanner could capture the effect.  |
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Post by Anping on Sept 12, 2017 16:49:43 GMT
My current favorite air mail cover in my collection. The flying clipper appears grey, but it is actually printed in shiny, metallic-like silver ink. I wish my scanner could capture the effect. Now that's a nice cover. By coincidence, I was looking at some of these about 2 weeks ago on eBay and was quite taken by them. I hadn't realised about the silver paint job as that didn't show up (as you found out). The odd thing is all of them have disappeared bar one. And that one is priced at $100. It has a just slightly different destination and route map. |
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Post by smauggie on Sept 12, 2017 17:03:52 GMT
That is an awesome cover Douglas. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by smauggie on Sept 13, 2017 2:49:10 GMT
Anchorage Westward HotelA rather more unusual US airmail cover. The lozenges are in the lower left and upper right hand corners only, and are colored in gold (looks tan) and red which as it turns out is the color scheme of the hotel. Also of interest is the cancel which is a slogan cancel which says, "Alaska Purchase Centenary - 1867-1967". 
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Post by smauggie on Sept 15, 2017 4:05:02 GMT
Red and blue stars and blocks and eagles in an arts and crafts style. This is my favorite general-use airmail envelope and the fact that it was made in Minnesota makes it all the more dear.  Back  Copyright detail  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 15, 2017 14:44:29 GMT
My current favorite air mail cover in my collection. The flying clipper appears grey, but it is actually printed in shiny, metallic-like silver ink. I wish my scanner could capture the effect. I agree with Anping and smauggie -- that is, indeed, a beautiful cover. I can easily understand why it is your favorite. I found a very nicely postmarked copy of this same air mail stamp, and recently posted a scan on the Postmark Calendar thread here: thestampforum.boards.net/thread/426/postmark-calendar?page=126I wish that this one had been left on its cover, too. I think I would have liked seeing that!  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 15, 2017 14:58:49 GMT
I already posted an image of this cover on the U.S. Auxiliary Markings thread, but it gets to do "double duty" as it is also air mail and sports an etiquette as well. In this case, the writer of letter was my father, and this was sent in 1956 (circular date stamp postmarks are on the back). I found this cover amongst his old papers during a recent trip back to Ohio on family business, and it was by far the nicest and most interesting one out of the many thousands of items I sorted through.  |
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Post by smauggie on Sept 15, 2017 16:10:35 GMT
It even has like a stock number on it. Looks like it came in a sheet or booklet pane. Nice item!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 15, 2017 16:16:48 GMT
It even has like a stock number on it. Looks like it came in a sheet or booklet pane. Nice item! Yes, the etiquette came in booklet-form, I believe. If I recall correctly, my Dad still had a booklet of those air mail etiquettes in his desk drawer when I was growing up in the 1960s. Unfortunately, the booklet itself is long since gone, and I did not find that while going through his things. He later switched to pressure-sensitive adhesive air mail labels, which came in roll-form in a small cardboard-box dispenser, much like punched-hole reinforcements do. |
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Post by DouglasGPerry on Sept 15, 2017 19:09:21 GMT
Here is my earliest airmail cover, an FDC of Scott #650 honoring the International Civil Aeronautics Conference. Nothing much interesting to see here, but I get a kick out of the explanatory panel. Apparently airmail cover markings were still so new that the printer felt the need to explain them. (By the way, this stamp is not an airmail stamp.)  |
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Post by DouglasGPerry on Sept 15, 2017 19:25:18 GMT
I would characterize this cover as having one of the "noisiest" airmail markings I've come across. It isn't pretty, but it certainly gets one's attention. The horizontally laid cachet refers to a route on Continental Air Lines, but there is no indication this is an inaugural flight cover.  |
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Post by smauggie on Sept 15, 2017 20:33:25 GMT
I would characterize this cover as having one of the "noisiest" airmail markings I've come across. It isn't pretty, but it certainly gets one's attention. The horizontally laid cachet refers to a route on Continental Air Lines, but there is no indication this is an inaugural flight cover.
Hi Douglas,
Wow that is loud! 
It is Contract Airmail Flight (CAM) 60 (note it says "Route 60" in the cachet). Contract Airmail Routes or CAMs were the air mail routes that were flown domestically. This first flight flown by G. W. Johnson leaving Kansas City was on March 1, 1944 which is the cancel date on the cover so it is a legitimate first flight cover.
Before you start thinking I am a first flight guru, I get all my information about first flights from Aerodacious.com which lays out all the information for you.
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Post by DouglasGPerry on Sept 15, 2017 21:40:00 GMT
Aha! Thank you for that information. I had no idea so much information could be found. You've opened a new door for me.
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Post by smauggie on Sept 16, 2017 17:26:03 GMT
Roseau Municipal Airport DedicationThis is a fun one, and obviously a later one that includes a helicopter in the design. The initials MACC are a mystery to me. There is no marking on the back to indicate who made this or where it was made. 
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 16, 2017 19:33:44 GMT
...The initials MACC are a mystery to me... I believe MACC was the acronym for the Metropolitan Airmail Cover Club which later became the Metropolitan Air Post Society. |
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Post by de61 on Jun 19, 2020 4:27:23 GMT
An unused U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Official Business airmail envelope with "postage" spelled wrong. No spellchecker back then!  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 19, 2020 13:09:41 GMT
I love it! Our government at work!
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2020 13:29:50 GMT
Perhaps that is why it is unused...
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jun 19, 2020 15:07:31 GMT
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jun 19, 2020 16:05:51 GMT
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Post by tomiseksj on Jun 23, 2020 15:49:06 GMT
I just received this first flight China Clipper cover for the eastbound leg from Guam to Honolulu (FAM 14-5a) postmarked on December 3, 1935. Per the American Air Mail Catalogue (5th ed.) only 3,543 pieces flew from Guam to Honolulu on that flight. This is the sixth such cover I've been able to add to my China Clipper collection.   |
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