Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

I love that cover, ILS, but I'm surprised they didn't issue that stamp on Mothers Day!

Actually, the perforated stamp (#737) was issued on May 2, 1934 (for Mother's Day) but the cover shown in the last scan was the imperf. variety (#754) that wasn't issued until March 15, 1935.

Thanks, wt1. Having not done much lately with non-revenue U.S. stamps, I didn't even think about the regular vs. Farley versions.

Either yerterday or today, but for sure March, this is my earliest Puntas Arenas cover Postmarked with the appropriatly Rare Puntas Arenas's first postmarking device an oval measusing 28.5 mm long and 19.5mm high. Mar 18, 1865

Since it's kinda quiet here in this thread right now, I'll try to catch up with postcard postmarks.
Mar 1.. Wendling





Mar 5th....Caspar and Mendocino









Mar 7th....Elk & Fields Landing










Mar 8th...Fort Bragg




Mar 12th...Loleta





Mar 13th.. Elk



Mar 15th..Fort Bragg & Wendling









Mar 16...Ukiah





Mar 18th...Fort Bragg

I think that I'm all caught up, just the one postcard postmark to show for today from Elk/

Just the one postcard postmark from the abandoned fort..

Today we have another postcard, this time from Mendocino's "famous" Ghost town, Casper! Sorry folks, I just couldn't resist any longer!

Another postcard from Caspar...a War rate card

This morning's cover is from Fort Bragg, Cal, but 16 years after my 1935 cut off year. It's a part of a pair of The Advocate News corner cards ( the 126 year old local weekly newspaper, still in print )so I'll show them both. The 1903 cover is interesting, appears the newspaper needed new type. Quite a difference is the Advocate's logo in the 48 years between these two covers, really like the 03. First, a link to the paper's website and then today's cover...

http://www.advocate-news.com/

It's interesting that the Advocate-News is still around today! In fact, a web search found this entry of July 4, 1963:

The Advocate News is one of two coastal newpapers, the other paper is the Mendocino Beacon, now owned by the same person or group, I think the Beacon had been in print longer than the Advocate. Further south down the coast at Point Arena was another local paper, the Point Arena Record, began in 1888, but I don't know when it stopped printing. About ten years ago, Point Arena converted Gilmore's General Store into the Point Arena libary, which has the records from the Point Arena Record.

A couple of postcards and a cover this morning, all out of Humboldt County. Both of the postcards are from the same town, Mckinleyville, and are addressed to the same person, same day, same year. The town was named Dow's Prairie but was re-named. Opened Jul 24 1903, closed Dec 31 1921, re-opened Oct 1 1955 and is still open.










This Maple Creek cover is a bit scruffy, but its a little town and wasn't a very busy post office. Alan H. Patera's California Postmaster Compensation lists only odd numbered years, 1903 was $74.18 and 1905 was $85.70. On thre back of the cover is an unlisted Korbel,Cal Rec'd postmark.

Darn! Knew I had something to do before I left for my grandson's baseball tournament up in Stayton OR yesterday! Forgot to post this cover from Orleans, Humboldt county Cal, missent to Boston Mass where it was recievied a Boston Rec'd and small Boston Numeral 6 and re-entered the mail stream back to Indiana. This is one of seven covers that I have from this writer to Mrs. Ballenger.





Today's cover is 364 days earlier from the town of Mendocino bearing that towns octogon postmark in purple, poorly struck as usual, but readable, except for the state. Almost every example I have of this postmark is struck pretty much the same as this one is. I wonder why?

Here is a post card from Germany with a "due 2 cents" dated March 30, 1913. The card front has Easter greetings.

Vince