Is It Rare ?

hi !

First of all I would like to present myself. I'm Ludovic From France so i'm sorry if is some mistakes when I wrote

I got 2 letters from my mother some years ago and I would like to know if they have some value or not.

First one is a classical letter



The second one is different. The personne that send to my mother say is something rare and can have value...

Front


Back


thanks you for all.

Ludovic

I would not say that what you have is rare. They probably have more value to you as a memento of your mother.

Is true is important for me and I keep it in a good place. I don't want to sell but my mother was curious to know what could be the value of it because the personne that she send to her said was a treasure

Welcome to SCF Ludovic!

Your second one is known as a First Day Cover because the stamp on it was issued on the date of the cancel (September 9, 1969).

The stamp is the U.S. air mail Moon Landing issue and the cover (envelope) had a Scott catalog value of $5.00 in 2011.

Steve

Of course, were you to try to sell it on ebay, you would be lucky to get $1 for it. Especially since the envelope is addressed.

Or you might actually get $5.00. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-FIRST-...em2320cea6ca

I will tell you a little story. For many years, since 1840 when stamps first started to be printed, there have been stamp collectors. The hobby had its ups and downs. There were times when it was wildly popular (1880s-90s) and times when it was not. At the time when your letter was sent, stamp collecting was very popular. People believed stamps could only go up in value, and everyone at the time was saying that stamps were great to collect, or would even be a great investment.

Fast forward 43 years. The number of stamp collectors are much fewer. The availablility of items produced in the 1960's was great. A great many stamps and first-day-issue envelopes were created. Demand is low.

Do you have a treasure? Absolutely. It is a beautifully recorded piece of your own personal history and the postal history of the United States.

I hope this explains why your mother was told what she was told and why it is still not much of a treasure in strictly monetary terms.

SMAuggie

Very nicely written! Thank you.

Thanks you very much for your explication smauggie.

The things was about the frank? (obliteration ?) because is 2 dates importante. Anyway i'll keep it because is a good momento for me.

Now i'll try to do something impossible, find who is the personne who send this letter...

ludovic

May I conclude that the cost to mail to the moon was only 10c back then? no wonder the USPO is going under...

Read baudax posting this morning which included his Moon Landing cover... and in the afternoon's post came a brochure of sale items which had double-dated Moon Landing covers also.

Thanks you very much for all. now is really clear. Now i'll try to have more informations about this personn and that will be really hard to do.