Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

I'll post more of the political covers but unfortunately many of them are unsent or are bulk mail and have no date. Most of the older ones are postcards, I suppose because they would have been cheaper to send.

The boundaries of this collection are kind of loose because when I see something I like that's even close I'll include it. For example, there are some inauguration philatelic covers and covers from politicians (mostly obscure) while they were in office.

More than likely. In a small election, cost would have been an important factor. The postcard was quite the workhorse, for a penny and the cost of the card you could communicate with friends and relitives, campaign for office, advertize products or services, or show folks where you've been!

An amazing amount of information is presented by a postcard. Like you, the boundaries of my redwood logging collection is rather flexable, as I never really sure what subject may be presented next.

Now, after saying the above, all I have for today is two rather generic postcard, with out any Redwood tree, logs, trains or ships. Comic cards of the day. So its just postmarks scan, today from Dyerville and Pepperwood, both common, both in Humboldt county.

Wow, there is a two day hole in my postmark calender! I'd better fix that!
May 21 1931 Alton Cal. I'm getting close to my end date with this cover. But it shows a Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co corner card, addressed to the Cattle Protection Service Department of Agriculture in Sacramanto California.

Today's cover was mailed May 22 (of course) sometime before the domestic letter rate was lowered to two cents per 1/2 oz on Oct 1 1883. There are no contents, and no external docketing on the back. I can't date the cover by the postmark because Men 3700 was used from 24 Feb 1879 to 22 May 1893. So sometime between May of 79 to May of 83. A nice PSE, except any one have an idea on how to remove the oliy stain on the address?

As for the last cover, I believe the addressee's name should be H. A. Deming, who advertised heavily in period newspapers for a number of years selling dressmaking patterns, as in the example below:

More great cyber sleuthing, wt1! Thanks. I knew that Butterick had been in the dress patteren business for a long time, but am suprised at just how old a company they are. This cover rather fits with the Meussendoffer Brothers Hatters in a new cover catagory..Clothing.
Please excuse this cover, its four months late or 8 months early. The brothers must have been masters of Their craft, for the New York firm of Moore and Sealy Bros to order 5 cases of hats at $1664 in Aug of 1868!

Whoops, got lost in dress patterns and hats, and forgot to post this odd looking cover, odd looking because of the stamp being folded over the top of the envelope. Any one have an idea why someone may have done this?

The simplest explanations are often the closest to being correct...the sender may have done it accidentally, perhaps being distracted from his task (or maybe not sober enough to put it on straight ).

I have seen this quite a bit with early French postcards. Then the stamp could be placed on the front or the back, so some people placed them so they could be seen from either side.

Unusual for a cover though.

Chatham, New Brunswick MY 24, 1852 to 18 Beaver Street, NY

This is the fouth cover of this correspondence that I have shown, one each in March and April and another earlier this month. Still two more to show.

Today's postmark is from Mendocino's northernmost coastal town and sawmill, Usal. A very nice mixed franking on a 2 cent entire pays most of the registry fee and postage using a 5 cent first Bureau and a 2 cent Columbian. There should be 1 cent due, unless the 5 C Grant didn't originate and replaced a 6 cent Garfield? It isn't tied.

Today I have a single postcard... with four postmarks! This card took a stage ride over two mountain ranges ( small mountains, but bigger than hills )as it was routed over Sherwood Road, through Willits, where it recieved an as yet un-recorded Willits, Cal Rec'd postmark, through Hardy and finally into Monroe. This is one of two to the same addressee, both of which have four postmarks, but the January card originated in Ukiah, a little more common that this Hearst post card.

Neat postcard photo too.

I remember the statement from the Lord of the Rings books, but perhaps known before that in gold mining circles.

May I ask wahat dioes PAW Office mean? I have seen it before years ago but my memory is scattered now a bit.