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Plateflaw
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Posted 09/20/2010   04:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Bump

Here is a nice and colourful first flight cover (FFC)



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rod222
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Posted 09/20/2010   05:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Are you able to exlain "FAM" covers please?
I see FAM 14 covers San Fran to Guam in 1935
How do both have the number 14 ?
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Plateflaw
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Posted 09/20/2010   06:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
FAM = Foreign Air Mail route

FAM 14 was the first Pacific route, originally from San Francisco to Manila. FAM 19 was the route to New Zealand and the south Pacific.

Lots of useful Clipper information here:

http://gracephil.com/Pacific-Clippe...rs-home.html
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jubilee
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Posted 09/20/2010   07:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jubilee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A few more offerings


Tangier commercial usage



Cancelled cinderella



Full British Empire Exhibition cancel, commercial usage



Lovely Bermuda KGV portrait cover, defaced by the address being scratched off (grrrrr)



South Africa to GB registered



Paquebot postcard, GB stamp, Egyptian cancel, to Australia



New York paquebot postmark on GB stamp

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rod222
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Posted 09/20/2010   11:28 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Plateflaw.

Jubilee, may I have a scan of the other side of the
Port Taufiq PPC please?

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jubilee
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Posted 09/20/2010   4:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jubilee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It and I are separated by about 300kms at the moment Rod. I'll try to remember on the weekend!
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rod222
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Posted 09/20/2010   8:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks
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Cjd
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Posted 09/21/2010   12:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Great covers, all, but this thread could use a few more stamps.





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jubilee
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Posted 09/21/2010   12:29 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jubilee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Never mind the thread, I could use those myself!!
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rod222
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Jubilee, are you aware that the models for just
about every British George5 stamp, was created by an Australian?

He was born in Melbourne, but we can forgive him for that.
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tonymacg
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Posted 09/21/2010   03:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well, if he'd been born in Perth, we'd never have heard of him - would we?
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rod222
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jubilee
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Posted 09/21/2010   04:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jubilee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
"He's a Victorian!" - Bill Lawry

(watch our cousins over the ocean try and figure THAT one out )
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Plateflaw
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6,000 printed
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Plateflaw
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