Show Off Your Crosby Covers

I finally dug out my only Crosby cover. Kind of a neat photo on this one, so I'll include a blow-up.

Here is a recent acquisitions that purports to be "The Original Crosby Photo Cover," see scan of reverse below. I purchased the cover for its corner card inscription claiming to be the inaugural meeting of the Cover Collectors of America, Chapter 2, in Washington D.C on May 5th, 1940.

Is this a bona fide Crosby cover?

What about the claim to be "The Original Crosby Photo Cover? Surely there were Crosby photo covers before May 1940. Does this inscription appear on other Crosby covers of the time period, or, perhaps, the language of the back stamp is imprecise and it should read "An Original Crosby ... ."

Any insights from Crosby cover collectors?

Thanks.

Don

Hi Don,
Yes, there are a number of them in this thread.
Don

here is a box lot find from a club auction last year.

I don't think this one has been posted yet. A Christmas cover postmarked at the San Diego Naval Hospital branch. I bought it for the photo of the three Douglas TBD-1 Devastators. The Devastators were a 1930s torpedo bomber. They were still operational at the beginning of WW II and suffered heavy loses at the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.

Don Sellos

The legend "The Original Crosby Photo Cover" is abbreviated from "The Original Crosby Photo Cover Album Manufacturer." In the 1930's Crosby marketed an album that held 800 covers on 50 pages (8 on each side of the page. I don't know why it was abbreviated this way since it was no longer obvious that it was referring to Crosby's album for covers rather than covers themselves.

Crosby's philatelic activities began in the late 1920's. His first thermographed cover with a photo is believed to be for Scott #683 issued April 10, 1930 (postmarked April 11, but still considered a first day cover at the time).

So, would anyone know if I have 1 or 2 here? The application of the stamp on the hawaii fdc is pretty messy, even to the naked eye.

blcjr:

Thanks for your explanation of the Original Crosby Cover. Most helpful.

DonSellos