Does Anyone Else Collect Business Reply Covers

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else collected business reply covers. They are another onr of those things I don't avtively seek put , but I do get them when I see them.I just like the way they look more than anything else. The cover for the National Cloak & Suit Co. still has an order enclosed for a ssize 39 petticoat for the price of $1.19 plus 5c for insurance. That cover and the John M. Smyth cover have advertising on both sides.
Thanks
david

I am like you, I don't seek them out but I also have a few put aside... mostly motorcycle related ones I have come across.

Regards
Gavin

Hi augustanz, I think it's just another great collecting area.
Thanks
David

I think if you wonder if anybody else collects anything
in stamp collecting, you have no idea how large or widespread philately is.
There are billions of stamp collectors and we collect everything,
people collect bus time tables to body parts stored in formaldahyde.
Nothing escapes the collector.
Return address collectors are very common.

Come to thnk of it, last week on time team
archaeologists were digging a roman cess pit in England
and were collecting 2000 year old poop.

I wonder if the poop was postally used???
Gavin

Here are the ones that came to hand...
Brag is the "Buell Riders Adventure Group"
The Ducati one is the front and back...

Regards
Gavin

agustanz,

Yep, Stamp collectors do collect everything. I also collect pictures of places I have been while riding my 2000 Yamaha V-Star 1100 Classic with 73,000+ miles on it.

Art

I love those old time advertising covers. The one that fincbob2451 originally posted from the John M. Smyth Mdse. Company of Chicago, revealed this biography taken from a Chicago Magnet School named in his memory:

http://www.smyth.cps.k12.il.us/JohnMSmyth.html

Likewise, the cover from National Cloak and Suit Co., would have to predate 1920 according to this summary of the company:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/spcol/exhibi...h/iotm_mar11

Hi wt1, Thanks for the great links. You are correct about the National Cloak and Suit cover, the order form is dated 1908. As for John M. Snyth, it is too bad that ethics like his don't still hold true today.
Thanks
David