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wrw1943

COLLECTING CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS
by wrw1943( 5789)
BACKGROUND; From the earliest days of the war between the States, designs began to appear on envelopes sold to the public which expressed various kinds of sentiments of patriotism and/or negative...
Tags: Civil War | Correspondence | Mail | Patriotic | Envelopes
104 of 106 people found this guide helpful
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20TH CENTURY FANCY CANCELLATIONS
by wrw1943( 5789)
INTRODUCTION; Possibly as many as 2,000 different fancy cancellations exist from the period between the early 1920s to the mid 1930s, but this area of fancy cancel collecting is often misunderstood. It is the...
Tags: fancy | cancellations | postal history | covers | cancels
86 of 90 people found this guide helpful
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wrw1943

COLLECTING ZEPPELIN COVERS
by wrw1943( 5789)
INTRODUCTION; The carraige of mail by airship began almost immediately with the earliest flights after the turn of the 20th century. The Zeppelin company soon realized that carrying mail, which appealed...
Tags: zeppelin | airship | postal history | flown | mail
57 of 60 people found this guide helpful
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bobcat4214

Earliest Documented Use
by bobcat4214( 20528)
Earliest Documented Use Stamp collecting like all fields of knowledge has a history. One advantage to stamps is that some information is centralized so that records can be kept of vital information such as...
Tags: earliest documented use | first day cover | cover | watermark | EDU
40 of 43 people found this guide helpful
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NEW YORK FOREIGN MAIL CANCELS
by wrw1943( 5789)
INTRODUCTION; Some postmasters and clerks in 19th century U.S. post offices carved fancy designs to "cancel" stamps on mail they processed. Although the New York City post office had, by 1870, a long history...
Tags: Fancy Cancel | Postal History | Covers | Cancellations | United States
34 of 36 people found this guide helpful
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bobcat4214

Death in Office of United States Presidents
by bobcat4214( 20528)
Death in Office of United States Presidents Not only is an inaugural of a US president a collectible subfield of philately, but a term that is cut short is also. There have been nine presidents that did not...
Tags: cover | presidents | death | Kennedy | assassination
27 of 27 people found this guide helpful
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bobcat4214

Worldwide Postal History
by bobcat4214( 20528)
Worldwide Postal History Postal History is an exciting branch of stamp collecting that endlessly rewards the intellect. A single cover can teach you about geography, history, and culture. There are many...
Tags: worldwide postal history | postal history | cover | postmark | postal marking
26 of 29 people found this guide helpful
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wrw1943

CIVIL WAR SONG LETTERSHEETS
by wrw1943( 5789)
The Charles Magnus firm was the most prolific publisher of illustrated stationery during the Civil War, making envelopes, letterpaper, songsheets, maps, prints, games, playing cards and other items. The...
Tags: Civil War | Songsheets | Letterpaper | Patriotic | Covers
20 of 22 people found this guide helpful
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wrw1943

ADVERTISING AND ILLUSTRATED COVERS
by wrw1943( 5789)
INTRODUCTION; In 1845 an Act of Congress abolished postage rates based on the number of sheets used in forming a letter, thus began the widespead use of envelopes to send letters. Until that time envelopes...
Tags: Advertising | Illustrated | Postal History | Covers | Envelopes
18 of 20 people found this guide helpful
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bobcat4214

United States Presidential Inaugural Covers
by bobcat4214( 20528)
United States Presidential Inaugural Covers United States presidential inaugural covers are a fun field of philately. Any cover canceled with a United States postmark on the day a US president is sworn into...
Tags: inaugural | president | cachet | Roosevelt | Obama
14 of 15 people found this guide helpful
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