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Posted 09/18/2012   7:21 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add philb to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
i am no authority on U.S. stamps or covers..so when I see something I have not seen before it interests me...i have a thousand U.S. covers but have not seen this blue label before this Sunday !

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United States
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Posted 09/18/2012   7:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add dlawson281 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This should answer the question:

http://www.uspostalbulletins.com/PD...form%202978"

anybody have the July 1933 Postal Guide?
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United States
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Posted 09/18/2012   9:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't have the Postal Guide of 1933, but this except from the Postal Bulletin of 1935 provides a facsimile of the label in question:



Obviously the label itself identified as Form 2978 changed in design as indicated by the above scanned cover, which is dated to the 1940s.
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Posted 09/18/2012   10:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The post office at Ohio State University had this airmail label on hand in the late 1960s; I was there, using them on letters to Australia and France (instead of doing homework).
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Posted 09/18/2012   11:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It eventually transformed into the Form 19-A and 19-B labels we still use today, such as these which are still available at my local post office:

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