Visiting a friend this weekend, she hands me a plastic shopping bag full of old envelopes. Nothing valuable, but certainly interesting postal history. Here's an E17 special delivery with a C32 airmail, postmarked 1947.
There is an old semi detached house in downtown Toronto, number 666. Needless to say it received a lot of undesirable attention from the lunatic fringe (you know, graffiti, dead bats etc.) After much petitioning from the owner, the city finally changed the number to 664 1/2. Guess there's something to be said for doing things in half measures.
Lovely covers! A great gift. I won a lot of stamps on ebay and the seller emailed me to say many of the stamps were still on the envelopes, would I like them cut off? I politely (and very quickly) replied No, thankyou, I was happy to have the envelopes too. Amounted to about 200 worldwide covers! Mostly 1960s. Again, nothing of huge historical value, but I love them anyway!
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Posted 04/09/2011 10:28 pm
I politely (and very quickly) replied No, thankyou, I was happy to have the envelopes too. Amounted to about 200 worldwide covers! Mostly 1960s. Again, nothing of huge historical value, but I love them anyway!
