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 Oct 20, 2023 6:02:16 GMT
I fully agree with René. I don't see the point on having to translate Russian. A lot of us, haven't English as mother tonge, but make our contributions on that language. I think, this should be the rule. But, it's just my view.
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armenin2000
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I am 73 years old. I have been collecting stamps since 1963. My interests are Greater Russia. Stamps
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What I collect: Greater Russia. Stamps, covers , maxcards
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Post by armenin2000 on Oct 22, 2023 8:42:59 GMT
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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 Oct 24, 2023 10:09:16 GMT
Barcelona (Catalonia), February, 11th 1960. lettere with the Barcelona Airport (by then, called "Aeropuerto Muntadas") postmarks, circulated to Madrid (spain) to commemorate the 50 years sinc the first plane flight from our city.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Oct 25, 2023 1:58:20 GMT
I seemed to have kicked an "own goal" I was certain I had a collection of Postal Stationery "CHEVRONS" as I refer to them, Alas! just 1 scan resulted in my databasel search. I did find some attempt at "AIR POSTAL LIVERY" (The paper design INSIDE Australian air post letters)  Some "Chevrons" as found in a random lot. Australia Vietnam CV : $45        |
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armenin2000
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I am 73 years old. I have been collecting stamps since 1963. My interests are Greater Russia. Stamps
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What I collect: Greater Russia. Stamps, covers , maxcards
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Post by armenin2000 on Nov 16, 2023 12:22:47 GMT
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armenin2000
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I am 73 years old. I have been collecting stamps since 1963. My interests are Greater Russia. Stamps
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What I collect: Greater Russia. Stamps, covers , maxcards
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Post by armenin2000 on Nov 17, 2023 18:09:23 GMT
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 26, 2023 22:54:23 GMT
A cover with an airmail border of a horizontal propellor at the bottom and red and blue vertical chain links used by Pan American Airways. apparently. to test delivery times. There is a November 4, 1946 Pan Am receiving cancel on the reverse, so the cover took three days to travel from New York City to Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. I know nothing about this program, but have seen several of the test covers. The return of the cover includes airmail postage from the destination country.
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 29, 2023 17:57:29 GMT
A recent acquisition for the "Wings' category of my variant airmail borders collection. This one is curious in that the stylized wings and globe with orbiting moon appear to be printed upside down on both the front and back of the envelope. The reverse, turned upside down , shows them how I think they should appear. Don StampHinger Upside down border?
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 30, 2023 18:36:53 GMT
Another Pan American Airways Airmail Test cover with a twin-engined aircraft border, this one prepared by a a collector and bearing Brazilian return postage. The airmail border continues along the top and bottom edges on the reverse of the cover. The day of posting is missing in the cancel dial, but there is a Rio de Janeiro Nov 3, 1946, receiving cancel on the reverse. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by stamphinger on May 20, 2024 19:04:35 GMT
An airmail cover made up of the Morse Code symbol for the letter V. V's were frequently used to symbolize Victory during WW II. I have been collecting these variant airmail borders for 25 years and this is the first border using this Morse Code symbol that I have seen. The border is not continued on the envelope's reverse which is an indication that it may have been privately printed. Commercial envelope companies usually printed airmail borders on a cover's backside as well. Don StampHinger  |
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Hugh
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What I collect: Worldwide Occupation Stamps and Postal History; and, anything that looks interesting.
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Post by Hugh on May 20, 2024 23:57:12 GMT
Don ... a nice thread. You've got some great covers. I don't think I saw this one in the thread - a globe centered on the Western Hemishpere with alternating blue and red wings. Interesting use, as well ... Venezuela to Kapuskasing - a remote town in the middle of Northern Ontario. And, when I say remote, I mean boreal forests, muskeg, blackflies and seriously cold temperatures in winter. It was the site of a POW camp during World War I -- there was no place to go. In World War II it hosted a radar base, staffed by the USAAF, that was set up to watch for possible attacks (which never came) to the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan. The population then was about 3,500.   |
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Post by stamphinger on May 21, 2024 0:12:30 GMT
HughThanks, No, I have not posted the cover you show above, but I do have one in my collection. This border style is frequently seen posted from Venezuela. Yours, indeed has an interesting destination. I wonder what the addressee was doing there during WW II. Working at the radar site, perhaps?? Don
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Hugh
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What I collect: Worldwide Occupation Stamps and Postal History; and, anything that looks interesting.
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Post by Hugh on May 21, 2024 1:09:39 GMT
Hugh Thanks, No, I have not posted the cover you show above, but I do have one in my collection. This border style is frequently seen posted from Venezuela. Yours, indeed has an interesting destination. I wonder what the addressee was doing there during WW II. Working at the radar site, perhaps?? Don Hi stamphinger ... interesting question. I noticed this item in a box of aerophilately covers when I was looking for an interesting border for your thread. I probably bought it from a buck-a-cover dealer at some point long past. I haven't done any research on it. At the time, I probably just thought it was an interesting use and it looked like it had some interesting cancels. About 44,000 people from China came to Western Canada between 1858 and 1923 -- 17,000+ in the 1880's to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Their decendants had moved accross the country, some working the forestry industry. However, this was a sad time in our history and especially for Canada's Chinese population. A more fearful and racist Canada had passed a "Chinese Immigration Act" in 1923 which pretty much banned all immigration from China. It was not repealed until 1947 and some restrictions continued into the 1960's. So, I have no idea what Mr. Lee was doing in Kapuskasing in 1943 but I doubt it involved working at the radar site - not unless he was in the US army air force. I just did a quick search and I couldn't find any records with the name Jung Lee. And, the mail was addressed to a PO box, so that's a dead end too. Always lots of questions ... rarely lots of answers. |
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fazeman
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Post by fazeman on May 21, 2024 1:50:46 GMT
Hugh, It's strange that the globe and wings are upside down on the borders. Haven't seen that before.
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Post by stamphinger on May 21, 2024 16:19:42 GMT
fazeman: Yes, it happens from time to time. I can't say way, though. The upside down borders seem to appear on commercially manufactured stationery, probably the initial layout is cheaper to produce than making sure every image is right side up. See my post of Nov 29, just above on this page for another upside down example. I also include here images of my example of the globed wings border, also from Venezuela with a Canadian connection. I also agree with Hugh, lots of questions about covers and few answers. Don   |
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on May 21, 2024 16:35:05 GMT
I prefer to think that the borders are not upside down but rather outward facing.
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fazeman
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Post by fazeman on May 21, 2024 20:48:46 GMT
stamphinger, I apologize for not inspecting your November 29 post more closely. For sure, the wings are upside down. Your reverse shot of the cover turned upside down looks normal. As per the last post by tomiseksj, I agree with his preference that the globe and wing are facing out... At least on the top and sides. The bottom is messed up. To me, the red and blue bars shouldn't even be on the cover. The globe and wings would've formed a good border by themselves. But as Hugh stated, "Always lots of questions ... rarely lots of answers."
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Post by stamphinger on May 22, 2024 3:33:29 GMT
fazeman, tomiseksj, & Hugh: I cannot dispute whether the winged globe design is upside down or facing out at the bottom of the envelope because I don't know enough about the printing process to understand what happens when these borders are laid out for printing. I do know, however, that some designs are undisputedly printed rightside up and upside down on the envelope's bottom side. See these two covers with airplanel borders. Don   |
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fazeman
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Post by fazeman on May 22, 2024 4:25:56 GMT
stamphinger, I see the two borders and just have to say, I give up.😄
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Post by stamphinger on May 31, 2024 21:44:47 GMT
A recently acquired National Air Mail Week cover that I am going to add to my Shapes category of airmail borders. However, I don't know what shape to call it. Not really an oval, not really a rectangle, but I think that is what I will call it..
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Post by stamphinger on May 31, 2024 23:49:21 GMT
Should have posted this cover with the one above as it is another new acquisition. No doubt about this one, it is going in the Arrows airmail borders album. A first flight cover from 1934.
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fazeman
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Post by fazeman on Jun 1, 2024 0:57:58 GMT
Don stamphinger, Possibly a canoe border? It looks hollowed out from a tree trunk. |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 9, 2024 21:05:52 GMT
An addition to my Airplane Airmail Borders collection. The Wright Bros. flyer this one, with the the Flyers in blue and purple. My scanner does not show the purple well. I've been watching for the border for years. I have seen only one other example and I was outbid on it. That cover had the airplanes in red and blue.
The cover came with an Aero News subscription coupon inside. I also collect philatelic publication covers and I thought that title sounded familiar. I checked my shoe box collection and sure enough, there was an Aero News cover there. According to the American Philatelic Research Library Aero News was a short-lived magazine that published from 1928-1932.
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 9, 2024 21:31:25 GMT
This cover is for my Partial Airmail Border collection. It has s short airmail designater at the bottom with "Par Noiva" in blue. Noiva is Avion spelled upside down?? An unusual presentation that I have not seen before. The philatelic event commemorated is a first flight from Walla Walla, Washington. The cachet is weakly struck, but the post mark is clear. Franking is the 4c and 2c from the 1937 Army Issue, Sc. 786 & Sc. 788 respectively.
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 23, 2024 17:47:32 GMT
This is a homemade first flight airmail cover featuring a "lazy Z" airmail border of single red and blue lines and a handwritten Via Air Mail. It is franked better than most of these covers with a straight edge copy of Sc. C 4. The airmail rate changed in August 1928, but as of the posting day of February 5, 1928, .10 was the correct postage for a 1 oz letter.
While the red and blue lines are neatly drawn and equally inked, the spacing between the lines is not equal and they do not meet evenly in the upper left and lower right corners. The Via Air mail in the lower left is obviously hand written. Then as if to not trust postal employees to recognize the letter as airmail, the sender added two printed "Via Air Mail" labels. An interesting cover for my Homemade Airmail Borders collection.
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 3, 2024 17:17:27 GMT
A new acquisition for my Lines & Bars Airmail Border collection, an international first flight Boeing 707 Jet Service from Boston to Shannon, Ireland, posted December 14, 1960. An interesting design on what I used to call a contemporary philatelic cover. The posting, however, was 64 years ago and can hardly be called contemporary anymore. Difficult for me to believe 1960 was that long ago. Don StampHinger  |
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