34c 911 Stamped Stamps?

I was going through my stuff the other day when I found these. I remember my brother was a postman then and he stamped them on that terrible day. ... Do you think that these stamps would bring a premium?

I doubt it, though it brings up questions of the kind of mail that was recovered that day and later delivered. There is a pretty good interest in such things from crashes of mail trains and planes.

Rather ghoulish, the collecting of crash mail, non? The Uncle Fester approach to philately.

It is ghoulish. I've stayed away from it though I can see the interest in monumental moments in history. Was anything saved from the Hindenburg fire for instance?

I suspect that there are as many relics from the Hindenburg crash as there are fragments of the true cross!

Hahaha!

No, there are certainly Hindenburg crash covers out there. They used to bring about $20,000 each, but I have heard the market is somewhat lower now, perhaps $15,000.

I have a crash cover from the "Air Mail Fiasco" of 1934. I wish it was worth what a Hindenburg cover is worth. I'd put a value of $300 on my crash cover.

Paperhound, the stamps would probably bring a slight premium. I don't know much about the myriad flag stamps, but I presume there is nothing special about these, and if not canceled would be worth no more than face value, and probably somewhat less. It would only appeal to a narrow range of collectors, I imagine. Knowing nothing else, I'd put the value at five to ten dollars.

Sorry but I have some bad news for you. These stamps were not issued until October of 2001. The United We Stand Flag stamps were printed and released in response to the events of 9/11. You have to remember, in 2001 the workhorse definitive issue was actually the 34c Statue of Liberty stamp. After 9/11 the public wanted flag stamps as a show of patriotism, and so the United We Stand Flag issue was printed.

The cancel that you have on these stamps was actually created as a favor by changing the date on the cancelling device and backdating these stamps to 9/11/01, prior to them actually being printed or released. These stamps were actually not cancelled or even available on 9/11/01.

Michael

Michael, good catch! I assumed these were regular flag stamps. This puts the item into a kind of postal Neverland!

I'm not doubting your word pnc5 but I will look into this further. Thanx for the heads up.

Released rather quickly after 9-11: http://arago.si.edu/category_2044947.html

Several years ago a damaged mail item from TWA flight 800 was offered on ebay. It sold for around $200, which I thought was quite reasonable.

You could try posting in on ebay; you might get some symbolic interest for the US flags and posted date on that terrible day.