What's Your Favorite Over The Top Cover?

I am sure everyone has at least one of these, usually prepared and sent by a dealer, or a philatelic friend or even by someone who just knows that you collect stamps. If push came to shove, this would be my favourite, though there are several close seconds. How about you?

I acquired this one a few years ago. Started collecting covers soon after that. Focused on non-phlatelic, but do have a few philatelic covers.

I don't think that anyone sets out to collect these philatelic covers. It is just that they crop up and are so, what's the best word, exuberant, that they are irresistible. Like yours. I love it!

All six Australian Colonies stamps on a philatelic cover.

Not part of my collection, but definitely my favorite over the top cover.

This one has me seeing red.

Amerika, Saxony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika,_Saxony

There's my "new thing learned from here" today!

Another one here with a color theme. The green star is an Esperanto symbol. The rubber-stamped words on the back mean "Long live Esperanto! Use green postage stamps!"

erilaz - even your avatar is green!!!!!

@Bobby




This site needs an Amerika postal history forum. We have one as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika,_Netherlands

What does "Over The Top" mean? It's not in the glossary.

Outrageous, whacky, wild, etc.

Thanks, Paddle, I thought it was some philatelic expression related to covers.

This one is send to Nairobi, unfortunally the backcower is missing with the Nairobi postal stamp, not many of these cover exist and I found it in a hoard of covers that I bought.



QR Code to the Cover

Over the top and out of this world carried from from a small (under 10,000 folks) town to the post office and from the post office onward to Washington D.C. Not a bad journey for 16 cents in postage, even if overpaid by 8 cents.


The USPS, a major stamp dealer and postal history creator started on July 1, 1971. Just four weeks and four days later they provided the illustrated FDC cover. As a citizen of the USA, I am part of the US Government and in turn have about 1/300,000,000th ownership as do many of you.





If you want to watch it being created see here:

Thanks NSK - more interesting information