1937 USA Stamp On Mini US Airmail Pouch

Can anyone give me any info on this item? I don't think the stamp is worth anything but I have never seen one mailed on a US air mail pouch. I cannot seem to locate any info on line on this item so hopefully someone on here knows some details on this. Is it worth more as it is on the pouch? The top brown part is real leather, the rest fabric and fully addressed and postmarked.

The stamp is of minimal value, but it's a neat item. It was probably something sold as a tourist item back when the postal service was more accepting of odd things in the mail. One couldn't mail anything like this anymore.

Novelty item then I suppose, would there be many left still around? Thoughts as to a value?

It was mailed to a "San Diego Club". I'm betting that was a stamp club. I've never seen one, but they could be out there tucked away along with Grandma's knickknacks. Value - hard to say. If the stamp and postmark was on an envelope it would be less than $1, but this is more unique. Start low and see where it goes as I always say.

I fear starting such a unique item to low and someone steals it for nothing and resells it for thousands. I'd rather see if anyone can find an example of a similar one being sold somewhere for a better idea of price. There's got to be a better starting price than 99 cents. I think several collctors would be interested to own this piece of history.

I actually googled "Mini mail pouch". They were used to mail mini-postcards. One is selling on Etsy for almost $20 and another sold at an auction house for $5.50. One is from New Orleans used in the 1920's and the other from upper Michigan. I think they were more widespread in the day. Usually if you describe something well enough the starting price doesn't matter - it will be seen if it's in demand item.

Maybe $20 is a fair start price then and as you say see how it goes based on demand.

Actually, mailing odd items is a (current) hobby in its own right.

http://www.improbable.com/airchives...tal-6-4.html ... Postal Experiments, from The Annals of Improbable Research (formerly published as The Journal of Irreproducible Results)

http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/145255 ... Mail Strange Objects- 13 ounces or less!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/michellepor...actuall-mu8x ... 21 Things You'd Be Surprised You Can Actually Mail

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I have a beer coaster mailed from Germany to Canada in 1972. Someone just put the semi-postal Olympic set on with a label and sent it.

I think, here in Canada anyway, that once something is dropped into the mailbox with postage attached, the PO is obligated to deliver it, regardless of what it is (explosives and toxic material excepted of course).
I had a design teacher many years ago who just HATED those prepaid subscription cards that fell out of his magazines. He would take them, tape them to a brick and drop them in the box. The post office would have to deliver, and the publications would be on the hook for the postage.
Bit of a vindictive fellow. And no doubt partially to blame for the state of publishing these days.

HI all,

What a cool display item & talking point the pouch would make in any collection.

Can't help but wonder if the coaster was full when it left, but got taxed on the way :)

Great to hear about the brick gent, that just cracks me up.

Thanks for sharing the laughs, you made my day.

Cheers....Jad

The 'brick' story has been kicking around the internet for many years, some consider it an 'urban legend'. Here in the USA, it shouldn't work due to USPS regulations. In the Domestic Mail Manual section 917.243(b) says, "when a business reply card is improperly used as a label the item so labeled may be treated as waste".

So in all likelihood the brick would never get further than the local post office. This assumes the local post office would be paying attention but I assume that a brick would catch their attention. Does anyone have a brick that has actually been delivered? Would make for a cool mailed item but I suspect none exist.
Don

These sorts of knick-knack mailing items are popular. I'd retail this at $25 if I owned it.

This may be a spin-off from the brick urban legend, but I read/heard that it is/was cheaper to mail a brick to the remote parts of Alaska than to ship them any other way.

Believe it, or not.

Robert

Bricks etc by post... http://home.bt.com/news/odd-news/uk...363897878186

The bricks were to help the UKIP political party built a wall to keep out immigrants (Donald Trump please note).
Basically UKIP are a right-wing racist party (Donald Trump please note).

Sold it last night for $100 a collector saw it in my ebay shop and could not resist it

I don't have a spare brick or I'd list one and see if ebays awake