Show Us Your Airmail Covers World Edition

This is a non-philatelic 1962 cover out of Poland to Canada. For those of us who collect variant airmail borders, it is interesting for the border of slanted parallelograms with a maple leaves. The design is repeated on the reverse and is an example of commercially available stationery mfg'ed by the Provincial Envelope Company.

Philatelic commemorative cover for the first year anniversary of the Berlin airlift. The cover has an interesting border.

A commercial airmail cover circa 1954 posted at Caracas, Venezuela, Its airmail design includes a winged globe displaying the western hemisphere. Winged globes as airmail designators were popular during the 1930s. The design repeats on the reverse.

A philatelic cover posted at the 1950 International Stamp Exhibition, at London, England. The blue & white airmail border repeats on the reverse.

Here is another post-WWII airmail cover. This one is from Athens, Greece to Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Postmark is October 8, 1946. Security lines and airmail indicum (backwards) are printed in dark blue on the inside of the envelope.

Here is a May 1, 1948 first flight cover from Frankfurt A.M. Germany (U.S. zone of occupation) to New York, N.Y. It was flown by Pan American World Airways.

The recipient of the cover, Charles Merz, was editor of the N.Y. Times for 24 years until his retirement in 1977.

Several collecting points for this 1944 philatelic cover out of the Dominican Republic. It is a first-day for the four-stamp Communications Building set, Sc. C49-C52; a censored cover; a registered cover with New York Registry Division cancels on the reverse; and addressed to a Nassau Street stamp dealer. I collected the cover for its variant airmail border.

A 1994 airmail cover posted at Marrakech, Morroco, apparently seeking information about permanent residency cards.

A 1947 first-flight from Manila, Philippines, to Calcutta, India. A partial airmail border continues on the reverse with a June 30, 1947 Calcutta receiving cancel.

My first cover purchase. First flight México City to Matamoros México 1929. My Family is from Matamoros. Not too much out there for Matamoros.

If you can take your eyes off that bisect (I'll give you a moment), this cover also features a very elaborate airmail etiquette livery along the lower edge.

I usually assiduously remove stamp catalog numbers & prices, but I've left these in place, for now, lest any artifacts of erasure cast doubt on that GPU (Genuinely Postally Used) bisect.

And, yeah, too bad about the torn stamp.

https://susanfrost.org/index.php?op...3&Itemid=222 ... Susan Frost has an informative note about Lito B Zadik & Co, the company that produced this cover, on her website.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

An attractive cover, Ikey Pikey, especially the art deco airmail designater along the bottom edge.


Below is a 1942 Canadian first-flight Sidney to St. John's Newfoundland.

A simple motif of top & bottom rows of poorly-drawn alternating red & blue aircraft sillouettes.

15 & 50 piastre Lebanese airmail stamps, issued 19510609, postmarked 19510905 in Beyrouth (Beirut).

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

A lovely envelope, produced by VIGAMIL and postmarked 19581107 in Santiago, Chile.



Received 19581110 at PECK SLIP STATION in New York, now closed.

https://forgotten-ny.com/2013/04/pe...e-condemned/

http://www.postallocations.com/ny/n...slip-station

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Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey