My Favorite Post Card Cover

This is one of my favorite Post Card covers. A while back a co-worker said I could have the stamps on the postcards her Grandmother had sent in the early 1900s. Among others that she let me have with the stamps, I specifically asked to keep this one.

A wonderful card, but... This is for EVERYBODY, not just the OP, and especially for newbies.

There is virtually no "postcard" stamp worth destroying a classic postcard for, and that includes steaming off. Probably 99% are 1c Washingtons and Franklins still existing in the hundreds of millions, and maybe 1% Trans-Mississippi, Louisiana Purchase, Jamestown, and Panama Pacific, some of which have valuable exhibition cancels listed in the U.S. Scott Specialized; valuable, that is, until the stamp's removed. Doubly true for foreign stamps.

A postcard is a COVER, an illustrated cover with a design or subject matter (PLUS a sentiment) you are likely to never see again, and you would not remove an old stamp from such a cover.......would you? Just my opinion.

I agree. This was some time ago and I have learned better since then. I just thought to give some history about how I got it.

I have a post card from the Crazy Horse in Paris..but I don't think it would fly here

i kind of like these even though my Grandfather and Great Uncles fought for the Austrians since they were born somewhat North of Verona !!

Nice card. The cancel is American Postal Machine model B14 with a value of about $5.00.

Russ, I have early U.S. postcards...where do you get the postmark information ? phil

I am totally amazed that you just know that!

What's a piazza?

A Piazza is like a Plaza, could have a gazeebo. Possibility of romance in the moonlight!

I've always learned that a piazza is an old-time reference to a front (or back) porch, usually connected to a house (as in the second reference noted below).

Either would be good for romantic moment!