I keep seeing them on ebay and else where. What exactly are IOOR Covers? The are first day covers obviously, but what is IOOR? Is that the desiger? publisher? It's driving me NUTS! please help.
Here's the reason I was curious about Ioor covers. Got this to go with my mystery 'essays'. Since Harry Ioor died in 1940 this would have been designed by his sister Travilla.
Not that this has anything to do with the Ioor Cachets, but when I saw the 1947 Centenary of Postage Stamps Souvenir Sheet, it prompted me to post this. I can't say that I ever realized that Cinderellas depicting essentially the same images as Washington and Franklin as on the "official" US stamps had been issued at about the same time:
Here are some Ioor examples -- the first two, coincidentally, were cancelled on the day of his death. As the bio wt1 posted in the other thread noted, Harry died before completion of the Famous American set. I'm not sure if he was involved in the design of these cachets or if they are solely the work of his sister.
Ahh I really really like those Famous Americans cachet covers. Are they Loors? I can't see the initials but it don't matter they are beautiful to my eyes anyway. Thank you for sharing those. You know I still don't have any of the Famous Americans in my collection yet? or the overrun countries series either.
These are all Ioor cachets. It is my understanding (per the referenced bio) that it was Travilla who began signing the cachets with "Ioor" after her brother had passed.
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