Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

The claim in that postcard for Cape Mendocino as the most westerly point in the (contiguous) US is not correct.

Nice Shelter Cove, Randy. From the looks of the CDS, it is Shelter Cove's first postmark (26.5 mm dia, 4mm between first letter of town and first letter of state), last known use was Nov 14 1905, office was open from Jul 12 1892 to Mar 15 1933. It was not a busy office. Alan H. Patera's compulation California Postmaster Compensation only lists odd numbered years, Shelter Cove's PM was paid $21.20 in 1897 and $27.61 in 1899. That postmark is rated 3 ( Scarce ) on the Williams scale of 1 (common) to 8 (Extremely Rare).

Today I have a registered cover from Cuffey's Cove, Cal, which would be lovely except for the ugly stain on the lower left. Still a nice mixed franking. I also have a postcard from Point Arena.

April 6 cover Scotia Humboldt County

Very nice Scotia cover, really like that postmark, Scoita's only ornate CDS Hum 4490 (2c 33.5 31.5 16L) EKU (Earlist Known Use) Jul 19 1895 and LKU (Latest Known Use) was Apr 6 1896! It is rated a 3 = Scarce. I have a couple of those pms on Pacific Lumber Co. corner cards, but they are July dates, and its far too early to show them in this thread. You'll see your addressee's name often on Humboldt county covers.

For today's postmarks, I have an Easter card and a pse cornercard, both out of Rohnerville, formerly known as Eel River (another July cover) name changed to Rohnerville Jan 26 1874, office became branch of Fortuna on Nov 30 1959. The addressee on my Rohnerville cover is another commonly seen name. See my Mar 31 post.

tomiseksj - I enjoyed your post of 12/02/2011 08:24 am on p. 49 of this thread showing your Bohemia and Moravia postcard dispatched to the U.S.A. on Dec. 2, 1940 and censored by the German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. The cautious message reads:

Dear Friends,
We send our best regards and remember you kindly, wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. George already goes to school, sometimes he is sluggish but he likes play-acting best, he is said to be fidgety, entertaning all the boys but he will grow out of it. He leaves home as all the other children do while it is still dark (it is still summertime here /one hour ahead of standard time - imposed by the Germans/ at a quarter to 8 (a quarter to 7). Well, after the holidays it may not be so bad. How are you? And what about Helen? Is she OK again? George eats a lot now, he is tall, but /no worry/ while there is still something /to eat/. T.G. /Thank God/.

When I am writing a letter, George will add a few lines, too. Farewell and look after yourselves. Greetings from Venda, Mary and George.

For today's date I have another cover from Cuffey's Cove, Cal. A fairly busy shipping point, the preceding year earned the postmaster $296.61 and the following year would be the office's highest compensation of $380.75. Although the post office was busy by Mendocino county standards, these postmarks are rated scarce.





This is the view of the coast from above the slide chute, which is shown in the photo below. The postcard view is still one of the most photographed spots on the entire Mendocino coastline. That is Elk in the distance.

A busy day for me, a postcard from Mendocino county and two Humboldt county covers. The postcard is from that "Friendly Ghost" town, Caspar. The first cover is from Oreleans, one of six covers written to a single person over the span of a year. The second is a nice cornercard, franked with a 2 cent Trans Mississippi from Fortuna.

This really brings your last cover into focus. Here's a photograph of the business noted in the corner card (Newell & McIntyre of Fortuna, California):

Thank you wt1! Wonderful photo, I've saved it for future use in the cover album. You continue to amaze!

kehess - Quote from your post of 10/14/2012 6:39 pm on p. 77 of this thread:

"October 14 1872, I don't know what country produced this and I can't read the address."

Yours is the first-ever postal card in the world issued by Austria-Hungary on October 1, 1869.

As far as I can make it out (transliterating the script with the help of a dictionary not being a German speaker) the address reads:

An die Herrn
Gebrüder Freunds Söhne
Gross BeschKarek
im Banat

The message on the back:

Wien am 14ten Ok. 1872
Ich weiss nicht was ich denken soll dass Sie mich nun schon zum 4ten mal schreiben lassen um meine Rechnung von 2 1/2 Jahr zu begleichen. Sie waren seit dieser Zeit gewiss sechs mals in Wien ohne zu bezahlen und versuchen nahens u. zwar zum letzte mal in Güte um den Ausgleich.
Achtungsvoll
Ph. Schwarz

Here's an attempt at a translation:

To Messrs
Freunds Bros and Sons
Grossbetschkerek
in the Banat

Vienna, Oct. 14, 1872
I do not know what to think as you now let me write to you for the fourth time concerning the settlement of my 2 1/2-year-old bill. You have certainly been to Vienna six times since then without making the payment and trying to approach me, that is for the last time by fair means, about the settlement.
Respectfully,
Ph. Schwarz

Gross BetschKerek is now known as Zrenjanin, in Serbia.

florian and kuhli,
Thank you so much! That is very helpful!

Tough to reply after the first post card ever has been discussed, but I'll plug away with today date on a Fort Bragg, Cal war rated postcard. Postmarked with Fort Bragg's new cds (Men 1330, Williams lists EKU as May 11, 1918, this is Apr 14, 1918, almost a month earlier.

littleriverphil - The above item issued in Austria-Hungary was the first-ever postal card in the world, not the first postcard.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_card and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcard

See also Postal Card on http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=3&letter=p

By the way, the first-ever postal card was issued in two versions on the same day, Oct. 1, 1869: one in German for the Austrian part bearing the inscription Correspondenz-Karte and the coat of arms of the Empire of Austria (shown by kehess on p. 77) and the other in Hungarian for the Hungarian part bearing the inscription Levelezési lap and the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hungary.

This morning I present a registered letter from Eureka, on U385 with Scott #306 paying the registration fee. What is odd is the lack of the Registry package/bag number. Eureka used their Registered CDS (Williams # Hum 1790), rated average, but they did strike it in a magenta ink.