zipper
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Posts: 2,649
What I collect: Classic GB, QV, France Ceres/Napoleon, Classic U.S., Cinderella & Poster Stamps
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Post by zipper on Mar 15, 2021 16:01:51 GMT
If you had to buy it because it made you laugh, post it here.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 16, 2021 15:16:49 GMT
Back in the 1930s and 1940s collecting postmarks from towns with unusual, weird, or funny names was popular. In 1939 The Western Stamp Collector commissioned cachet artist John Coulthard to draw amusing labels for 40 towns across the country. These labels have been shown in TSF's cinderella threads, but collectors took to affixing them to covers postmarked at the corresponding towns. I collect these labels on cover and have 32 of the 40. A couple examples are below. Don StampHinger
Horse Heaven, Oregon, was a mining/lumbering town in north central Oregon 18 miles east of Ashland. Its post office was established in1938 and discontinued in 1946 after the mercury mines in the area played out. It is today a ghost town with zero population.
A collector, probably the addressee, embellished this cover by adding a shadow box around the label making it the most creative application of this series that I have collected to date.
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