Show Us Your Airmail Covers World Edition

Don, in your post with the China cover (October 6th) you said 'Not sure how to categorize the airmail symbols on the top and bottom edges'. I reckon they must be aircraft tails (vertical stabiliser and rudder).
Regards
DavidR

Hi DavidR:

Yes, vertical fin and rudder, a good possibility. That will do for my album write-up.

Thanks for your comment.

Don

A 1962 cover from Indonesia with an airmail border of red & blue chevrons separated on each edge by a blue aircraft. The design is also on the reverse with the aircraft in red.

This July 2, 1946 post-WWII airmail cover from Pannarano, Italy to North Bergen, NJ, USA features a thin, somewhat crudely printed security paper. The inside printing shows a group of people looking up at an airplane in flight. Pannarano is a small municipality (pop. ca. 2000) about 45 km northeast of Naples.

Don't have a clue of the meaning of the numbering on the lower left of the cover.

bookbndrbob:

The numbers at the lower left are from the North Bergen post office.

For some reason, the letter could not be delivered as addressed. I see what may be a number "70?8" on Broadway as an address, but apparently no one with the addressee's name was found there.

I can't make out the two words to the left of the numbers but it likely said something like "Route" or "Carrier". The list of numbers represent the carrier routes, and someone (probably the original carrier) at the post office went to each carrier and asked if they recognized the addressee name. When a route could not identify the addressee, their number was marked off. Apparently the addressee was found, and the letter delivered, since there are no "Return to Sender" markings.

Thanks mml1942! I will put this information with the cover.

The scope of knowledge on SCF continues to impress.

A first flight cover from New Zealand with back cancels.

This postcard used was on my Philatelist bucket list(lower regions). it just arrived.

British India Airmail Postcard. used, Lahore 22 feb 1934.

A 1978 non-philatelic, registered cover from Trinidad & Tobago with a combination of red and blue shapes and vertical bars for the airmail service designation. The shapes on the top and bottom edges are on the reverse, the bars not.

A 1959 personal cover from Isreal to West Germany with an airmail border of red & blue very "fat-winged" aircraft. An unusual aircraft airmail border variety.

A couple of covers out of Africa with similar, but different partial airmail service designators. The first, a 1982 cover from the Ivory Coast Republic and the second a 1986 cover from Gabon.

Here is another Post-WWII airmail cover. This one is from Tasin (?) Romania to Philadelphia, Pa., USA. It was mailed from Romania on March 26, 1947 and arrived at NYC Registry Division on April 1. The next day, it was in Philadelphia. I am guessing that the "02420" marking on the front is the Romanian registry marking. There are light blue, perforated PAR AVION labels on both sides.

Franking is 29,700 lei, indicating a serious inflation problem.

Two more, 1981 & 1986 respectively, from the Ivory Coast Republic with partial airmail service designations:

A 1973 non-philatelic cover out of Lormont, France, with partial airmail service designation of red & blue chevron with trailing lines.

And, here is one more Post-WWII registered airmail cover. This one is from Frybork, Poland to Philadelphia, Pa., USA. It left Frybork on October 16, 1947 and arrived at New York City Registry Division on October 23. That same day it was in Philadelphia.

45 Zloty franking (9 x 5 zl. stamps).