US Army Covers From 2ww And Few Others From The Same Period

Great CSA covers filipo!

filipo, Very nice covers. Staunton, Va was an important supply depot for the confederate army sometimes referred to as the "breadbasket of the Confederacy". It was captured by Union troops on June 6, 1864 and the warehouses were burned and the railroad destroyed.
CSA stamps an covers carry a substantial premium.

Thanks, Smauggie!

Russ, thank you very much again for your interesting observations!

I just got another journal, with stamps stuck on its pages... There is totally 2 pages, and this one seems to be more interesting...

And on this one are more recent stamps...

A seal "Opportunity for crippled children" is unusual? I didn't see it ever before, and on Google I can't find any information about it.

Thanks for posting the pics filipo.

That cancel on the German stamp in the upper right corner is interesting. I do not know German cancels but that is a beauty.

Any chance of getting a better scan / photo of the crippled children seal? Thanks!

Of course! On the bottom part is stuck other stamp, so I didn't want to remove it... it could damage one or another stamp.

Thank you, lovely.

I hesitate to mention this, as I am one of the last ones to use dial-up internet connection, and, I know, I know, upgrade why don't I, but your images for the full pages aonly load half way. I can only see the top half of them. Then it stops. This is because somewhere along the way some program has decided that enough time has passed for any decent computer to load the image and lets not take all day at it huh?

Well, I am slow and need smaller file size images or smaller images.

Two ways around this problem. Only display half the image at one time, crop away half the image so you have two images instead of one. Or scan at a lower resolution (100 ppi ? maybe?) or reduce the resolution or percentage size of the image by half or some reasonable figure while still keeping the clarity needed to view the stamps.

Someone suggested that I should just take the image URL and load it in separately in a new window after a CTRL-F5 refresh / reload. I have tried this different times and it doesn't work. Sorry. My computer is slower than newer ones and my connection speed in slower.

Gripe gripe. Not at you filipo, just general griping here. Well, maybe there is another way around this prolem that I haven't considered yet? I will work on this. Thanks for listening.

I can make smaller scans easily, but I used to make them larger, because I supposed that somebody would like to see a details on some stamps/covers.

If you fail to upload and see some of my previous images, and you still would like to see them, please, let me know which one you are interested in, and I will place them in zip folder, and upload them as a file on rapidshare or I can send them on your e-mail address.

Happy New Year! :)

Some interesting overseas covers from 1850's. I will be thankful if someone could tell me more about them. I marked names in photoshop, but will provide them in someone is interested.

filipo, Nice covers. The first has "Prussian Closed Mail" in upper left with handstamp "paid" and handwritten "30" which was the 30 cent rate to German States. The origination cancel is Allentown, Pa July 5 (1858) with New York July 7 transit in red. Red Aachen receiving July 18. Back has "Frankfurt" July 20, 1858 ?transit? and partial marking "RG" and second line "20." probably Heidelburg July 20?
Second cover has backstamp ?"PARIS A CALAIS"? with Oct 20? date. Front shows red handstamp for Am(erica) Service and Nov 9 New York receiving cancel. Handwritted "via Liverpool" to Allentown, PA.

Thank you, Russ.

I just found out one interesting thing. This little stamp was stuck in the 1868. diary of an preacher from New Jersey.

It looks like a cinderella or a little poster/sticker, but it seems that it is actually canceled "NJ"... so I am just not sure what it could be?

Your scan depicts a 1935 Easter Seal. Your cinderella, along with subsequent issues can be found at this web site:

http://www.christmasseals.com/index.php/easters

Hope this is a helpful link for you.

Wt1, this is a great link, thank you very much!

filipo, Nice cinderella. The postmark looks comtemporary for 1868 period. The postal worker probably thought when in doubt, cancel it. This would be a really early use of a cinderella on U.S. letters. Very nice message.

Thanks, Russ.

However, I can't be sure that cinderella is really from the year 1868. Diary is printed for the year 1868., and used mostly in that year, but there is also some messages from the next 4 years (up to 1872). Cinderella could be from the 1868., when the owner started to us his diary (and probably it is), but it also could from some years earlier (for example, if he preserved the letter with this c. and just stuck it when he find appropriate place in his new diary. I am just not so sure.

I suppose that someone who is familiar with the New Jersey cancellations could find out the right period when this c. were used.

It is very interesting that I tried to find out in Google where the quotations from the c. came from, but I didn't get any single positive result. It looks that saying ("SPEAKING otherwise than well of an absent person, is almost always breaking the golden rule, & usually a mean slander") is so original and, odd, and it seems that it is not used before or after anywhere else. However, I also tried to Google the "Opportunity for cripple", and also didn't get any result, and that Easter c. was issued in millions.