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Post by Jeff Hayward on Jun 4, 2020 18:29:31 GMT
A. J. Warner founded the Elmira Business and Shorthand College in 1858 and it still exists today as the Elmira Business Institute (EBI). Sent from and to Elmira, N.Y on December 9, 1898. I also collect anything related to desks and this advertising cover shows a roll top desk. I had to outbid a typewriter collector, it was tough! 
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Post by Jeff Hayward on Jun 4, 2020 22:38:34 GMT
Part of my Statue of Liberty collection. August 20, 1912 sent from Albany, N.Y.
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Post by Jeff Hayward on Jun 10, 2020 16:03:14 GMT
This cover part of my jewelry topic. Buffalo NY September 17, 1926
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Post by Jeff Hayward on Jun 22, 2020 20:10:54 GMT
Niagara Textile Company, Lockport, NY August 3, 1936
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 29, 2020 15:52:06 GMT
It is my impression that collecting hotel corner cards was once very popular, but less so today. I have only a few, acquired mostly for association reasons. These two I bought for my advertising covers collection.
There is a small story behind the first one from The Plains Hotel. I actually stayed at the Plains in 1959-1960 when I worked as a substitute railway mail clerk. I made a few runs on the Omaha & Ogden Eastern Division which ended in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Plains offered a discount to railway mail clerks and many of us stayed there. It is, I believe, still up and running. This Plains cover is postmarked at Los Angeles in 1938. The sender must have stayed there and took the envelope for use later. I have had it for several years, but never written it up. The second cover from the Hotel Perry in Petoskey, Michigan, is a recent acquisition. I purchased it solely because the color and style of the corner card is so remarkably similar to that of the Plains. Perhaps, the two hotels were once owned by the same chain, or, at least, both had their stationery designed and printed by the same company. I wonder if there are other hotels with similar art work. Always something more to watch for. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 9, 2020 14:59:51 GMT
This cover from Sioux Skyways is a recent addition to my advertising covers collection. Its collecting points are the attractive, to me, Art Deco corner card logo, the clearly struck Sioux Falls handstamp cancel, and its addressee, the venerable Stinson Aircraft Corporation.
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Sept 9, 2020 15:47:12 GMT
Assuming others can post here as well...
While chickens are a popular and rather abundant advertising subject, that of the turkey is much less so...
 I picked this up last week, too neat to let pass.
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Post by JeffS on Sept 9, 2020 15:51:25 GMT
stamphinger - I was intrigued by your Sioux Skyways cover and did an online search. I figured it was the name of an airline but it turns out is is the name of the old Sioux Falls airport.
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 10, 2020 14:41:09 GMT
Hi Jeff:
Thanks for the info re: Sioux Skyways. I thought it was probably a small regional air taxi or the name of an aircraft service operation, i.e.,, airplane rental, flying lessons, fuel sales, mechanical services, hangar rentals, etc.
Don
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 26, 2020 17:02:05 GMT
After looking through my advertising covers, a witch riding the traditional broomstick across the moon seems to be the closest to a Halloween-themed cover I have. Anyone else have anything commemorating this special day? I find no trace of the company today, I wonder what this its products were?
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Post by ohnomrbill on Nov 19, 2020 19:58:01 GMT
Well it's not exactly a cover but I like this one out of my collection of FDC's for the Sagamore Hill stamp. This TWA postcard featuring a FDC cancellation. This picture is from when it was listed on Ebay. It doesn't really have that Ebay blob on it. Bill  |
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 13, 2021 15:30:34 GMT
This thread has languished for awhile, so I'm bumping it up with this 1910 advertising post card featuring a bear checking out a box of socks.
The essay contest mentioned in the message portion of the card may have been a hard sell. A 500 word essay about bears and Bear Brand Socks, a Bear Brand socks purchase coupon, a short two-weeks entry period, and a non-specific $25 prize (doesn't say cash). Let's hope the prize wasn't two dozen pairs of socks that wouldn't sell because of their garish colors! Nice card, though. It will look good in my illustrated advertising cover collection.
My guess is that Bear Brand furnished the card to retail sellers who put their own ad in the white space on the right. Bear Brand appears to be still up and running. It has a Facebook page.
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Post by smauggie on Apr 13, 2021 19:22:27 GMT
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Post by smauggie on Apr 13, 2021 19:33:07 GMT
Advertising cover with a nice Exposition machine cancel.  |
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Post by REL1948 on Apr 13, 2021 20:38:49 GMT
Thank you for sharing the cover from the Michigan stove company. They were located blocks from where I was born in Detroit, Michigan. Their company had a landmark that was known to every native Detroiter: "The Worlds Largest Stove". It was located on Jefferson Avenue along the Detroit riverfront just before the bridge to beautiful Belle Isle. I remember it well as I played near the feet of the stove many times. It was destroyed forever by lightning in 2011. Rob  ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED TO REPRESENT DETROIT at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Michigan Stove Co.’s 25-foot-tall world’s largest stove was restored and re-erected at the Michigan State Fair in 1998. It had been dismantled in 1974. It took about $300,000 to restore the stove. The money was raised by a collective of companies, unions and individual donors. Today, the stove sits on top of a mound at the Michigan State Fairgrounds and weighs 30,000 pounds. An antique replica of an old coal and wood burning stove, the monument is representative of the stove industry that Detroit was known for before the automobile. It is an icon of Detroit’s first industrial era. At the turn of the century, the city was known as Stove City, USA. The model that the monument replicates was produced by the Garland Stove Co. when stoves were used for both cooking and home heating. “It needs a good, visible home and it needs constant protection,” said former state fair manager John Hertel, who led the effort to resurrect the stove. “But it’s worth saving. It represents an era. It was built four years before the auto industry got rolling around here. It really is a symbol of how we can reinvent ourselves, and that’s a good message for right now.” Unfortunately a fire in August 2011 destroyed the stove. The previous article from Atlas Obscura |
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Post by smauggie on Apr 14, 2021 20:55:26 GMT
Mutual of Omaha advertising cover with CA1.1 Meter  |
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Post by smauggie on Apr 17, 2021 15:49:37 GMT
Chicks for sale!  |
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Post by smauggie on Apr 17, 2021 16:12:59 GMT
Donahue and Henneberry, Chicago These guys are advertising on the stationary they sold to the state of Illinois.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 12, 2021 18:44:58 GMT
A couple of recent acquisitions. The first a postage paid imprint from the Numismatic Company of Texas, Fort Worth. I bought this one for the illustrated cachet not knowing that the Numismatic Company of Texas was one of the most successful coin dealerships in the U.S. during the 20th century. It was owned and operated by B. Max Mehl, a pioneer in numismatic advertising. Mehl was an immigrant from Europe and began buying and selling coins out of his house in 1903 and was soon publishing and distributing a series of coin buying and selling price lists, one of which was apparently mailed in this cover. His business was based at 1200 South Henderson Street, Fort Worth until he moved to California in the 1960s.  Lawrence Paper Company specializes in cardboard shipping containers of which the baby chicken box was one. Hatcheries used to, and, perhaps, still do, use a cardboard box like the one illustrated to transport baby chicks to buyers. I remember as a farm kid in Iowa during the 1940s my parents buying baby chicks in the spring and bringing them home in a box similar to this one. Later, as a substitute railway mail clerk, I recall hatcheries using boxes like this one to ship chicks via railway express and the Railway Mail Service.
Lawrence Paper Company began in 1882 and is still in business. Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 22, 2021 22:47:32 GMT
I was looking for a Thanksgiving cover thread, but couldn't find one, however, this is actually an advertising item so it will fit here just as well. It is a fold-out card from International Tailoring Co with a Thanksgiving theme.
Don StampHinger The front
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The interior
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Post by stamphinger on Jan 25, 2022 20:37:19 GMT
I am fond of covers relating to radio shows of the 1930s and 1940s and found this one on eBay. It is from a kid's radio show about the Lone Wolf Tribe, a fictional Indian tribe that offered dramatizations narrated by one Chief Wolf Paw. The show aired out of Chicago in 1932/1933 with Wrigley's Gum as the sponsor. Listeners could become tribal members and receive a membership card and premiums such as bracelets, rings, key chains, and necklaces by sending in Wrigley's gum wrappers. This cover probably carried a membership card and, perhaps, one or more of the premiums. The phrase under Chief Wolf Paw's image on the cover was a greeting extended to those thought to be members of the tribe, The expected reply was "BA-NE-NA-NEE-NAH" which acknowledged tribal membership. Alas, the show only lasted for one season.
Don StampHinger
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Post by swvl on Feb 14, 2022 23:12:57 GMT
Here's a colorful example of this category that showed up in today's mail, containing a fundraising appeal for the New York Botanical Garden. I only wish they'd used the new Butterfly Garden Flowers nonprofit issue, or another suitably themed stamp, for postage. Nice to find this, even so! front: 
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 15, 2022 16:16:16 GMT
@swyl
I am glad to see that someone else is keeping contemporary advertising covers. I have several in my Advertising Covers collection, mostly solicitations for money. To me they are the equivalents of the now pricey 19th- and 20th-century illustrated advertising covers.
Don StampHinger
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Post by swvl on Feb 15, 2022 17:48:57 GMT
My thoughts exactly, Don stamphinger. I think of them as enjoyable pieces of future postal history - and they're definitely easier to come by than their counterparts from the past! |
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Post by swvl on Mar 3, 2022 22:22:44 GMT
Here’s an advertising cover that showed up in this week’s mail from the fine folks at Mystic. Funny to see those pricey imperfs depicted on the cover, with not even a standard presort stamp to be seen in the upper right corner… No stamps here, just pictures!  |
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Post by JeffS on Mar 16, 2022 14:51:20 GMT
Welding is not a common advertising subject:
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Post by swvl on Mar 24, 2022 21:08:08 GMT
If you’ve read some of my other posts on the forum, you won’t be surprised that the Guggenheim Museum is one of my favorite places in the world. This membership appeal came in a very nice envelope, and they even used an actual nonprofit-rate stamp for postage. That’s a mass mailing I can get behind!   |
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 21, 2022 15:58:08 GMT
I received this contemporary advertising cover in the mail last week. The obverse displays a photo of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight and contained a request for a contribution to support the National WASP WW II Museum at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. The reverse shows a B-29 crew with two of the WASPs and the WASP emblem painted on the aircraft. The WASPS were Women Airforce Service Pilots, a volunteer group of women pilots who ferried USAAF aircraft during WW II, thus freeing male pilots for combat and training. The "piece of WW II history" mentioned on the reverse include a WASP shoulder patch and a commemorative plate with an image of Fifinella, the WASP mascot, on it.
While I would have preferred a non-profit stamp on the cover instead of the printed mailing permit, it is still attractive enough to include in my Aircraft on Cover collection.
Don StampHinger
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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 Apr 24, 2022 0:00:20 GMT
Decided this was as good a thread as any for this postal envelope that was given out by the National Foundation For Asthmatic Children. It was probably an insert with one of the dreaded financial appeal mailers. This was the 1965 version of the Auth. Nonprofit Org. envelope Sc U547.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Apr 24, 2022 12:02:39 GMT
I posted this cover back in 2014 on the Postmark Calendar thread but it seems that very few of us take the time to perform deep dives into the now 8,000+ threads on the Forum. This cover sports a 2 cent black, perf. 12 Jefferson Jackson stamp (Scott 73; 1863) tied by a double circle Boston, Massachusetts CDS with 4-ring bullseye obliterator. The corner card reads: Paper & Twine Warehouse, EDWIN H. SAMPSON, 10 Exchange Street, Boston. On the reverse, Sampson touts " Every description of Paper and Twine on hand or made to order at short notice."
Had they been of the same era, Andy Pastuszak would likely have sought Sampson's services in his quest for the perfect album papers.  |
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