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Post by stamphinger on Oct 28, 2019 21:03:11 GMT
My next category of airmail borders is Lines & Bars. This grouping, while having multitudinous variations, is a little prosaic so I have chosen one that is to the other extreme, an anomaly. Collecting cancels from towns with unusual names was popular in the 1930s, and this cover with its hand drawn border was designed to play on the Four Corners, Wyoming, town name. Using four 1 1/2 cents stamps to make the then current airmail rate of 6 cents doubled the play on the town name. While I have no evidence, I think that the addressee made this cover and mailed to himself.
Don StampHinger
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Post by renden on Oct 28, 2019 21:24:27 GMT
Always nice to see your posts stamphinger - I do not have any besides a few Airmail covers (no borders) - Thanks René
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 13, 2019 16:55:22 GMT
My next airmail border collection category is Bottom Bars, a sub-category of Lines and Bars. Bottom Bars usually include an airplane or other symbol in the design which is along the bottom edge only. This one has a nice image of a Boeing 314 Clipper first used on the Trans-Atlantic routes beginning in 1939 with the cover being used, in this case, for a domestic first-flight in 1941. Don StampHinger
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Post by de61 on Mar 23, 2020 20:55:02 GMT
A cover with a two-sided border, listed as Planty C23-56b with a Dayton, Ohio, first day cancel.
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Post by de61 on Mar 23, 2020 20:57:36 GMT
A C25 first day cover with a fancy border by an unknown maker.
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Post by de61 on Mar 23, 2020 21:00:05 GMT
Linprint's general purpose airmail envelope with a first day cancel for the C25 issue.
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Post by de61 on Mar 23, 2020 21:03:01 GMT
A star-bordered envelope by an unknown cachet maker with a first day cancellation for the C26 issue.
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Post by de61 on Mar 23, 2020 21:06:01 GMT
Another star-bordered first day cover, this one with a Jay Dee cachet, listed as Planty C34-17.
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Post by de61 on Mar 23, 2020 21:11:39 GMT
A first day cover for the C33 issue with a simplistic straight-line bordered frame by an unknown maker. I wish the envelope folding machine was registered better to provide more balanced borders.
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Post by de61 on Mar 23, 2020 21:16:02 GMT
I had to show this first day cover for the C36 issue, even though it does not have a fancy or unusual airmail border. It is a Sky-Rite envelope with a faux-watermarked plane and wavy clouds.
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Post by philatelia on Mar 23, 2020 21:30:26 GMT
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 25, 2020 21:47:26 GMT
The posts by de61 and philatelia in this thread has rekindled my interest in my airmail border collection. This one is from the category I call "one-of-a-kind," that is I have not found others of similar designs to group with it. This cover has a Halloween motif with an owl or bat sitting on a crescent moon that was pressed into service as a first-flight cover. There are multiple examples of interesting designs in this category, but I will post only one for now. I'll come back to it after posting an example from each of the different categories I have.
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Post by JeffS on Mar 26, 2020 9:40:56 GMT
Note the pilot autograph in the low left corner. Worth an internet search for aviation and air mail fans.
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 28, 2020 15:00:16 GMT
From my category of airmail borders with variations on the traditional parallelogram or "lozenges" border. This one with a double row of smaller parallelograms on a cover commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Wright Bros' first flight. These look hand drawn, which is not unusual. Some collectors made their own airmail markings.
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 30, 2020 15:14:24 GMT
de61:
Just noticed the clever play on words by the envelope mfg'er!
The not too quick StampHinger.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 30, 2020 15:39:55 GMT
Here is a square cover. Mexico's colors. I never did figure out what MACC stood for. An airport dedication cover from my Minnesota postal history collection. This cover makes me a little sad. Back in the 60's-80's, Anchorage was the major hub for flights going from Europe to the far east. When the USSR fell Russia began allowing planes on a limited basis to fly over Russia (which the USSR did not) so all that business left Anchorage. Paraguay airmail envelopes feature their colors (red, white and blue).
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 30, 2020 21:00:29 GMT
MACC in the border of the stars and aircraft border are the initials of the Metropolitan Airmail Cover Club formed in New York City in 1941. It later became the Metropolitan Air Post Society or MAPS. It looks like the society may still be active, but I don't see any dates on its home page. mapsnewyork.org/home.html
Don StampHinger
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Post by smauggie on Mar 30, 2020 22:30:05 GMT
Hey, thanks for letting me know.
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Post by kasvik on Apr 1, 2020 13:27:34 GMT
At first the border got my attention. It looks badly printed, not home-made.
The postage due is no less mysterious. With a 1949 stamp for 40 centimes and marked for air mail, it is underpaid, and assessed for 25 centimes more on delivery. This helps with the invisible cancelation year. That must be 1953 or after, after the Swiss trans-Atlantic air mail rate fell from 80 to 65 centimes.
How the New York clerk came up with 8 cents due is beyond me. With the exchange rate then pegged at CHF 4.375 to the dollar, the 25 centimes due would equal 5.7 cents. Sometimes receiving clerks doubled the amount, to be punitive. Something going on I don't get.
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 3, 2020 11:30:29 GMT
The next category in my airmail border collection is what I call "partials," that is the airmail designtion does not extend around the envelope, but is placed in one of the corners or along one or two of the edges. Some are hand drawn such as this one addressed to the executive secretary of the Jack Knight Air Mail Society. This cover includes hand drawn stamp frames in addition to the attractive airmail designator to the right of the address. Unfortunately, I don't know the artist, perhaps, Clarence Myers who signed the cover.
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 15, 2020 14:34:54 GMT
From my collection of variant airmail border is this first-flight helicopter mail on route AM 84 with the border composed of red, white & blue half circles. The design is repeated on the reverse along with a copyright notice implying that envelopes with this border were not philatelically inspired, but were produced commercially and available in stationery shops. The cachet includes a recognizable rendering of the first commercially produced helicopter, a Sikorsky S-51.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 24, 2020 21:59:40 GMT
I'm interrupting my airmail borders categories sequence to show this recent acquisition. I have been trying to add this design with helicopters on the top border and rickshaws on the bottom to my One-of-A Kind category for several years now. I saw one on eBay about fifteen years ago, but it was priced too high for me. A second appeared some years later, but I was outbid on it. I finally got this example a couple of weeks ago. It appears to be a commercially printed airmail envelope and I doubt that it was originally scarce. Commercial airmail stationery was usually used for personal or business correspondence and, consequently, of little philatelic interest and thus not saved. As I recall the other two covers I saw originated in Japan as well and this stationery may not have had wide distribution. I am grateful to finally have an example of this design for my airmail borders collection.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on May 11, 2021 22:41:01 GMT
It has been over a year since I posted to this thread. New collecting interests have pushed it to a back burner, but I still have many covers with variant airmail borders to show. Below are two from my "Shapes" category, both with rectangles forming the airmail border.
The first is a National Air Mail Week cover posted from Westerly, Rhode Island on May 19, 1938, national pick up day for NAMW. Its border is a simple one of red and blue rectangles. The cover has an added collecting point for being addressed to Amie J. Forand, a long-time (1937-1960) Rhode Island representative to the U.S. Congress. State coordinators for NAMW encouraged local postmaster to send examples of their town's cachet to elected officials and this is an example of that practice. The second cover is a typical 1934 first flight cover from Tyler, Texas with an envelope that also uses red and blue rectangles to form the airmail border, but with a corresponding red or blue line in their center, a little more ornate.
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Post by hdm1950 on May 12, 2021 1:41:07 GMT
When I saw the recent post on this thread I remembered this 1929 First Flight cover from Mexico City. When I got it in a job lot once I thought it was neat and might be rare. Once I searched though I discovered there are dozens of them on eBay and most any time. It was wonder the plane did not crash with the weight of all the covers.
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Post by JeffS on May 24, 2023 20:45:42 GMT
I'm doing some cover sorting today and came across this attractive air mail bordered cover.
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Post by armenin2000 on Oct 8, 2023 18:59:30 GMT
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Post by renden on Oct 8, 2023 19:23:02 GMT
armenin2000Why the french "recommandé or "récommandé" on mailings ?- Thanks - Merci - СПАСИБО
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Post by armenin2000 on Oct 8, 2023 21:00:53 GMT
Международный почтовый язык – французский
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Post by renden on Oct 8, 2023 22:22:12 GMT
Международный почтовый язык – французский Wish you would post in "english" - I am a french Canadian and write in "english" International postal language is French is your response - Merci ! René
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Post by rod222 on Oct 9, 2023 0:06:05 GMT
armenin2000 Why the french "recommandé or "récommandé" on mailings ?- Thanks - Merci - СПАСИБО RECOMMANDE : (Fr.) Registered
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