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Post by stamphinger on Nov 22, 2020 23:27:21 GMT
A recent acquisition purchased for the tied "Let's Get Associated" label produced by the Tidewater Associated Oil Company in 1938-1939. This is an international cover and is correctly franked with 5 cents postage for surface mail to Europe (Denmark in this case). The sender, Jack Silva, most likely was a collector as evidenced by the use of two Famous Americans for postage and the inclusion of the cinderella labels.
Tidewater Oil printed two series of these labels generically titled Stamps of the West and Roads to Romance. The labels were numbered consecutively. The first set released in 1938 was numbered 1--100. The 1939 set, 101--200. Both labels on this cover are from the second set. The bottom label is #188, "Rim of the World Drive," and the top label #200 "Walled City, Manila." Denmark was an occupied country in 1940 and there are German censor markings and tape on the reverse.
I have several of these labels among my unmounted cinderellas, but no where near a complete set of either series. They are seen on eBay from time to time and a set can be expensive if the labels are purchased individually. Better to buy them as a complete set. Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 19, 2020 22:02:12 GMT
Out of Mexico comes this registered airmail cover from a hardware and gift store in Mexico City., to the Kresge Corporation in Troy, Michigan, with a tied 1974-75 Mexican TB stamp. I'm not sure if the 10c TB seal counted as postage or not. If so, it probably doesn't qualify as a cinderella. In the mid-1970s, Troy was the headquarters for the S.S. Kresge Corporation. There is a 1974 Troy, MI, receiving cancel on the reverse. The 80 centavos airmail stamp on the left center of the cover is Mexico, Sc. C429, commemorating the Fifth Inter-American Philatelic Exhibition held in 1974. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 27, 2020 13:13:11 GMT
This under-inked February 4, 1986 postmark ties a label advocating the saving of the Social Security and Medicare systems to a personal, non-philatelic cover. I was unaware that SS & Medicare were endangered, but this organization certainly thinks so. The committee, (NCPSSM), is still active and has a website that cites the dangers and identifies politicians who are allies or threats in the fight. The Expect a Miracle label at lower right appears to be a cut-out with printed perforations. A somewhat different Cinderella on Cover. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 31, 2020 23:49:57 GMT
Here is an interesting recent acquisition with three WW II patriotic cinderellas affixed, one of which is tied by the cancel dial. Another is pasted over a corporate return address. Most interesting, though, to me is the addressee's location, the federal prison at Lewisburg, PA. The Lewisburg pen opened in 1932 and is still operating as a maximum security prison for hard cases. I wonder if the addressee A.J. Stefun was an employee or an inmate? Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jan 11, 2021 16:26:09 GMT
Lady Luck tied a WW II patriotic label to this airmail cover addressed to longtime stamp dealer Elmer R. Long. It looks like the cover made a pass through a canceling machine upside down and the label got canceled instead of the 7c stamp from the 1932 Washington Bicentennial set. Also looks like a watchful postal clerk hit the stamp with a dauber to cancel it at some point in its journey. The cover is overpaid by 1 cent. The domestic one ounce airmail rate was 6 cents in 1942. There is a V Club seal on the reverse as well.
I don't recognize the flag label on front, but the inscription at the bottom reads First Stars and Strips/Paul H Helm Private Collection. The V for Victory seal was widely used during WW II and may be seen for sale on eBay from time to time. The Northwest Airlines airmail etiquette adds color to a rather plain envelope. My guess is the two cinderellas saved this cover from Long's wastebasket.
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Post by stamphinger on Jan 14, 2021 22:38:22 GMT
A recent acquisition here of a 1935 American Philatelic Society souvenir label tied to a cover posted at Washington, D.C., the annual convention site on the first day of the meeting. This is one of only two items the APS produced for its 50th Anniversary. The only other piece was a small nearly square advance label. Seems like the society might have done a regular sized souvenir sheet for its golden anniversary, but 1935 was in the middle of the Great Depression and money was probably scarce. The image in purple at the top of this label is a reproduction of a Washington, D.C., one cent local post item from the 19th century. The cover is franked with the 3c stamp depicting Mt. Rainier and Mirror Lake from the 1934 National Parks set.
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Post by stamphinger on Jan 22, 2021 23:05:03 GMT
This cover is from the First World-Wide Philatelic Convention held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 17-21, 1939. Besides choosing a World Queen of Stamps, whose photo enhances the cachet, the convention issued two cinderella items. One was a large label with a globe showing the western hemisphere and a stamp album in the center, and a smaller label depicting Oklahoman Will Rogers. I have been seeking the Will Rogers label tied to cover for some time and finally found this one at a reasonable price. To date, I have never seen the larger label for sale, on or off cover. I would prefer a stronger cancel, but magnification and a little extra light shows that the label on this cover is tied by a May 20, 1939 cancel from the convention's philatelic station. Don StampHinger  |
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Feb 2, 2021 16:37:11 GMT
Cover from the "Friends of Saint George's" club in Barcelona to Ripoll (Catalonia) on April 1993. Cacheted cover with a Saint George's drawing by Josep Maria Subirachs (Barcelona, 1927-2014) and a cinderella with the same drawing.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 4, 2021 17:03:28 GMT
A rather "plain Jane" personal cover, probably carrying a Christmas card also franked with three Sister Kenny Foundation seals, of which the last on the right is tied by the cancel dial. Sister Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse. European nurses were traditionally referred to as Sister and her title was not of religious origin. She advocated heat applications and physical therapy to the limbs of those afflicted with polio, a controversial treatment in the 1940s and 1950s. The foundation issued seals annually as a fund raiser in the same fashion as the National Tuberculosis Association and its successors.
I'm not sure what the focus of the Sister Kenny Foundation is today now that polio vaccine, Rotary International, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have all but eradicated polio in the world. It, however, was one of the world's most feared diseases at the time this cover was posted. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 7, 2021 22:43:10 GMT
Another charity label tied to cover. This one from the Disabled American Veterans (DAV). The label is undated. I have seen others like it, also undated, except the man on crutches is wearing a hat. The turkey in the lower right corner suggests a holiday issue date, circa Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I suspect this is a philatelically inspired cover given the careful placement of the label in relation to the cancel and the return address sticker for the delivery address. Unfortunately, the year in the cancel dial aligned perfectly with the dark blue strip along the bottom of the seal making the cancelling date unreadable.
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 11, 2021 21:14:24 GMT
A carefully placed advance label inviting attendance at the 9th annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, October 19-21, 1938 at Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of the collecting points for this cover. It is also an association cover in that it is addressed to Oklahoma senator Elmer Thomas. Thomas was an attorney, originally, from Indiana, who served a couple of terms in the U.S. House of Representative (1922-1926) and in the U.S. Senate from 1926 - 1950. The cover is postmarked in Chelsea, Oklahoma, September 8, 1938. No information on the sender or the contents of the envelope. An item for my Cinderellas on Cover collection.
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 17, 2021 23:52:19 GMT
A first-day cover for Sc. 947, the 3 cents stamp commemorating the Centenary of the Postage Stamp in the United States, issued May 17, 1947 in NYC. Pertinent to this thread is the pair of Centenary International Philatelic Exhibition (CIPEX) cinderellas with the top one tied by the cancel dial. There were six different designs featuring different modes of mail transportation of these cinderellas issued in four different colors. CIPEX was held May 17-23, 1947, in NYC at the Grand Palace Exhibition hall with several different cinderella items, a souvenir sheet, and the commemorative stamp available to collectors. Price wise, the cinderella items turned out to be the best for price appreciation.
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 20, 2021 22:58:39 GMT
A Collectors Club of Seattle label commemorating the philatelic exhibition accompanying the Century 21 Exposition of the Seattle Worlds Fair. The philatelic exhibition was held May 28-30, 1962. The label features a drawing of Chief Seattle, the city's namesake. It was used on this cover eight months after the exhibition. I had not seen this label before. It was printed in sheets of fifty and presumably available at the show. A letter came with this cover in which the sender asked for information about a post office at Bay City, Washington.
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Feb 23, 2021 16:04:07 GMT
Cover from the 1st Stamp Gathering at Artesa de Segre (Catalonia), August 26th 2011 (26.08.11 on the postmark). The 2 first "starred flag" cinderellas issued by the organiser (Bernardí Moya) and a 1900 Catalan Nationalist poster stamp.
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 25, 2021 17:52:48 GMT
Here is a non-philatelic cover from Albert Steinfeld & Co with a 1939 Arizona Cuatro Centennial label tied by the cancel dial. It was posted February 28, 1939. To many 20th century residents of Tucson, Albert Steinfeld & Company meant the large department store in downtown Tucson and later at the El Con Shopping Center on east Broadway. However, Steinfeld's business interests also included the Pioneer Hotel, real estate, mining and banking as well. We lived in Tucson for ten years in the late 1960s and early 70s and and shopped at Steinfelds many times. A nostalgic addition to my Cinderellas on Covers collection. The label has a copper finish, appropriate for an Arizona commemorative item as the state had been the leading copper producer in the U.S. for many decades.
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Post by daniel on Mar 28, 2021 4:05:05 GMT
Georg Wimmer
This cover marks the first anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963. It bears an Austrian 20g definitive stamp (Old Courtyard, Morbisch) from the 1957 series depicting buildings and is postmarked Wien and dated 22 11 64. It features a vignette miniature sheet depicting John F Kennedy designed and engraved by Georg Wimmer who engraved many postage stamps for Austria.
 Scan_20210328 (2) by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 30, 2021 17:25:30 GMT
I'm not sure where I will put this cover, in my Cinderellas on Covers or my Religion on Covers collection, it would fit in either. It is a personal cover, but based on the "Philatelic Mail/Please Cancel Lightly" label and the liberal use of commemorative stamps, it has philatelic properties too. Either the sender, the addressee, or maybe both, may have been a collector. The cover appealed to me for the Bible Crusaders cinderella tied by the Walla Walla, Washington postmark. It is one of the more "urgent" sounding religious cinderellas I have collected so far.
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Apr 3, 2021 17:24:30 GMT
April, 2009, el Masnou (20 km NE of Barcelona) 10 years of the naval base.
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 7, 2021 17:22:05 GMT
A new addition to my Cinderellas on Cover collection, and a surprise. This is the first Mrs. Stewart's Bluing label I have see on cover, does anyone have others?. A halting trip of the envelope through the canceling machine fortunately tied the label, but left a somewhat messy cancel. It will do, though, until a better example comes along. The cover was posted at Minneapolis, MN, on April 2, 1940.
The label is from the lower right corner of third issue, 1940, of Mrs Stewart's advertising sheets. These cinderellas were free from the company for the asking and very popular at the time of their issuance. Dating back to the 1880s, Mrs Stewart's Bluing, a whitening agent for clothes, is still sold in grocery stores and places like WalMart & Target.. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by daniel on Apr 9, 2021 4:48:21 GMT
A nice first day cover, dated 2.10.1973, from Austria marking the 50th anniversary of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organisation headquartered in Lyon, France. They are now approaching their centenary.
The magnifying glass has been added along with a Bolt Post artistamp depicting Professor Moriarty, arch nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, and effectively undermining the whole cover.
 Scan_20210409 by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 13, 2021 15:46:36 GMT
Below is a 1936 souvenir sheet from the fourth annual convention of the Oklahoma Philatelic Society held in Shawnee, Oklahoma, tied to cover. The OPS is still active, though it has fewer members these days. It's annual meetings are now held in conjunction with the Oklahoma City Philatelic Exhibition.
Franking is a precanceled Sc. 706, the 1 1/2 cents stamp from the Washington Bicentennial Issue. Commemorative stamps were not to be precanceled, but the rule was widely ignored and the Washington Bicentennials were precancel favorites of the period.
Looks like the sender (Mrs. Doane?) asked to have the sheet canceled with a hand stamp. Magnification shows that the four killer bars of the hand cancel stop just short of the stamp. It's probable that the stamp was applied after the hand cancel.
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Apr 13, 2021 16:40:44 GMT
Tortosa, Catalonia. September 1951.
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Post by daniel on Apr 16, 2021 4:35:44 GMT
Two fantasy items from the Newfoundland Airship Company producers of Newfoundland and Labrador Cinderellas which probably originate from someone in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA with Canadian connections. They both have Canadian postage stamps and postmarks.
Firstly, an airmail cover, with a Labrador address but marked for return to an address in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Multiple Labrador fantasy stamps, front and back. Postmarked 11th November 2010.
Secondly, a postcard/boarding pass, dated August 2009, sent to Kat Halloran, Airship Pilot, Whale's Brook Aerodrome, Brownsdale, Newfoundland. Postmarked Deadmans Bay, NL. I can't trace this aerodrome but the postcode exists.
 Scan_20210416 (2) by Daniel, on Flickr
 Scan_20210416 (3) by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 27, 2021 23:21:07 GMT
I finally got these three acquisitions written up and placed in my Cinderellas on Cover album today. None of them tied, but cinderellas that I do not otherwise have. The first is a somewhat odd postal card. Odd in that the cinderella and the fancy cancel, its other collecting point, don't have an apparent connection to the correspondents. This is certainly a personal card from a husband to his wife. It looks like the husband was working in Claremont, California, and sending a note to his wife in North Hollywood. Perhaps, one of the two was a collector and was dressing up the postal card with the advance label and the Liberty Bell fancy cancel was a coincidence of mailing at the Claremont post Office. The card is UX28, a diminutive postal card issued in 1917.
I collected the second item, a first-day cover for Canada, Sc, 314, the 15 cents stamp commemorating the centenary of Canadian postage stamps, for the souvenir label from the First Canadian International Philatelic Exhibition used on the cover's reverse as a seal.  The third cover, and the one I find most interesting, is addressed to the Rebecca Lodge at Osborne, Kansas. I collected it for the 1903 Louisiana Purchase Exposition advance label in the upper left corner. To date, it is the oldest cinderella on cover that I have. The Rebeccas were the female auxiliary of the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), a benevolent fraternal organization.
Don StampHinger
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Post by tomiseksj on Apr 28, 2021 12:39:00 GMT
This cover was included in the recent gift sent to me by philatelia. The cover bears the 3 cent stamp from the Century of Progress issue (Scott 729; May 25, 1933) and received a Chicago, Illinois Exposition station machine cancel on June 14, 1933. June 14th had been designated as Connecticut Day at the Exposition and one of the scheduled events for that day was a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A blue and silver Exposition label secures the back flap of the cover. Given the addressee, I think it safe to assume that the cachet maker was Harry Ioor.  |
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Post by daniel on May 2, 2021 3:05:51 GMT
Two covers with some age to them.
Firstly, a wartime cover from Queensland, Australia to Johannesburg, South Africa dated 1942, on a V for Victory envelope, with stamps depicting the Queen and King. It has been opened by a censor in South Africa and marked as 'Passed by Censor' on the front and an 'OPENED BY CENSOR' label in Afrikaans and English has been used to reseal the envelope. On the reverse, there are two different Australian Cinderellas, both stating 'IF YOU CAN'T ENLIST LEND BUY WAR LOAN BONDS'. One of these has been tied to the cover by the label and a further purple censor mark.
Secondly, a window envelope form the Dominican Republic. Sent from The Royal Bank of Canada, Tujillo with an attractive Pitney Bowes meter mark dated 6th July 1955 and marked AIR MAIL. On the reverse there is a nice Dominican Republic poster stamp which reads 'Fair of Peace and Fellowship of the Free World Trujillo City Dominican Republic 20th December 1955-27th February 1956' printed by Lit. Ortega, Valencia, Spain.
The two covers are shown front front then back back.
 Scan_20210502 (3) by Daniel, on Flickr
 Scan_20210502 (4) by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by JeffS on May 2, 2021 23:39:28 GMT
Pro-Reagan and anti-Phone Companies. At least we know where he stands.  |
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Post by stamphinger on May 15, 2021 23:11:28 GMT
A 1929 American Philatelic Society convention souvenir label tied to cover, sent to a General Delivery addressee in Sitka, Alaska, and subsequently returned to sender. This cinderella was issued in four colors, red, purple, green and the blue on this cover. There is a Sitka September 14, cancel on the reverse, but I don't know if that is a receiving cancel (the cover would have gone surface mail), or the return date. Also unsure what the Aug 26, 1929 hand stamped date below the franking represents. The convention ran until Aug 25, so maybe these covers were held until the end of the convention before being placed in the mail stream, or the Aug 19 date stamp was used regardless of the date actually mailed.
I also wonder if the sender used a fictitious addressee in order to receive the "unclaimed" and "return to sender" auxiliary markings on the cover. Lots of questions about this cover.
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Post by kasvik on May 16, 2021 13:47:55 GMT
A 1929 American Philatelic Society convention souvenir label tied to cover, sent to a General Delivery addressee in Sitka, Alaska, and subsequently returned to sender. This cinderella was issued in four colors, red, purple, green and the blue on this cover. There is a Sitka September 14, cancel on the reverse, but I don't know if that is a receiving cancel (the cover would have gone surface mail), or the return date. Also unsure what the Aug 26, 1929 hand stamped date below the franking represents. The convention ran until Aug 25, so maybe these covers were held until the end of the convention before being placed in the mail stream, or the Aug 19 date stamp was used regardless of the date actually mailed.
Even for surface mail, over two weeks, maybe over three, was slow. I like your thought that these were held. That makes sense of the 26 August mark, but it still was a slow slow trip. Pity there are no return cancelations, although that's normal for Return to Sender. I guess it did not get back to Raymond Bahr until November. I'd like to think the Springfield, Illinois postmaster chewed him out. Add to the mysteries: Why Sitka? |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 11, 2021 22:03:55 GMT
In 1939, the North Dakota Philatelic Association issued a imperf souvenir sheet with eight labels to commemorate the 50th anniversary of statehood for North Dakota. The label tied to this cover is last of eight from the bottom right of that sheet. See my previous post here for another label from this sheet on cover.: thestampforum.boards.net/post/78672/quote/6336I have never seen a complete sheet of eight offered for sale. Does anybody have one?
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