My Weekend Find

Paid a whooping $3.00 for this post card.

2013 Scott Value $150.00. Nice little find.

Nice - did you buy it in the Red Hook, NY area? I think I recognize that dealer mark.

Yes I did buy it in Red Hook, NY. - Cool

I was digging through post cards, thousands of them. I like to travel around a hunt for stamps. always on the look out for a 316 or 318.............LOL

It looks like they restocked recently as I was there not too long ago. SE has some nice cards here and there. I pulled out a 1930's German airmail stamp and an early 1949 Israel coin stamp, both on postcards.

There weren't too many places to look for stamps up that way. I tried all the antique shops. but came back with just a few items.

A 316 or 318 would be nice too. I've seen so many 300's and the best I was able to find was a mis-perforated one - also found in Red Hook.

A nice find!

Incidentally, here's a link to another postcard sent to Mrs. Hevenor of Salt Point, NY around the same time period:

http://www.rhinebeckhistory.org/RHS...6.04.002.asp

And to Mr. Hevenor, a bit later (1950):

http://www.rhinebeckhistory.org/RHS...4.02.002.asp

Probably addressed to the wife of this man:

http://crestleaf.com/p/50ba973a651a...bert-hevenor

Here's a biography of Ethel Hevenor and her grave site (also a link to her husband, Robert A. Hevenor and son, Robert B. Hevenor):

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...Rid=64806334

Can you imagine if we did not have e-mail or texting and still had to communicate that way? The post office you be flooded with post cards.

Very Interesting, I love the mis-pref, very cool.

I don't think it would be as big of a deal as one would think. If we didn't have the technology we have today we wouldn't miss the need for instant communication. Without e-mail or texting, we'd be limiting our communications to the important issues and not all of the mundane data we generate today.

In fact, back in the day, many households did without telephones and those that did have them were very conscious of the cost and would not make too many unimportant calls because of it. Fast forward to today and I was just in a supermarket and the woman in front of me used her cell phone to communicate with her daughter elsewhere in the store who was getting some other food items! (Talk about needless communication...)

Wow! Very nice!

That's a pretty cool card. Scott's does list that on cover at $150. But I'd assume that would be for regular usage, as a postage due. Scott's states that after July 1, 1913 Parcel Post Postage Due stamps were allowed to be used as regular postage due. But this one is being used as straight postage. Isn't that a no no? I wonder if there's a bigger premium for improper usage.

Was it used as postage or did the sender put the Postcard through the Mail system with no Stamp ? It's a NY cancel.

Also if you look at the card the date (stamp) is under the postage stamp so I am assuming that the sender dropped it in the mail without postage.

Here is a close up of the stamp & cancel

I assume that this is the Red Hook, NY. in Dutchess County, not the one in Brooklyn.

@Rev - correct Red Hook, NY just north of Rhinebeck, NY