Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

Guatemala 3-PM JUN 8 1931

Sometomes I'd forget my head if it wasn't firmly attached.This time it was a RPO the Willits & San Fran that should have had a black border, a mourning card.
For today, I have a postcard from Elk, another from the Boyd Eglin postcard group.

Today it is a postal card, mailed from San Francisco on the seventh, the card was struck twice with Mendocino's town and county postmark Williams number Men 2360 two days later when it was recieved. From my "Other Covers" accumulation I have a cover from Providence R.I.

US Scott #26 on June 11 Civil War patriotic cover from Elmwood Illinois to Philadelphia Pennsylvania - "Our Compromise"

Nice patriotic cover, love the cannon and flag.

Today's cover from Iaqua in Humboldt county shows another familar addressee, the county Superintendent of Schools. Postmaster compensation for Iaqua in 1897 was $50.13. How large do you think their school was?

Doesn't seem to have been such a large one at the time. The populace would have used a lot more letters and corresponsance at that time than now.

The ' Postmaster compensation ' you mentioned; what exactly does that show? The mount of money the Postmaster earned from the sale of stamps and other products like money orders or just stamps or the actual turnover of stamps for that Post Office? I think you mentioned this earlier on in the thread.

An extensive biography of the addressee of the last cover posted, one James Berry Brown, Superintendent of Schools in Humboldt County, California, may be found on pages 290-294 at the link below:

https://archive.org/stream/historyo...290/mode/2up

This paragraph from Alan H. Patera's introduction of his compilation California Postmaster Compensation may best explain what the pm's compensation tells us. I use the figures as an indication as to the size of the town, and as Alan says, the scarity of covers.





As for Iaqua, it never did get very big. What are the odds of finding an 1880 or 1881 cover? The earlist cover that John H. Williams knows of is Apr 26, 1887. There are towns in Humboldt
county that record less than $1.00 for the year.





Wt1, Thanks!

I do have an incoming Wells Fargo cover for today, bearing a nice purple WF San Francisco oval/

Thank you.

You're welcome. A couple of postcards today, both out of Mendocino county. the first card has a 5 cent WF.

GB Crown Free Frank Front dated JU 15 1837 signed by the Earl of Falmouth.

Another political cover, no stamp. The Luther family must have had a collector.

16 June 1924 Northern MI to Jackson MI

Ive shown this cover before (Oct 2914) in another thread and since I have no other cover with today's date in the postmark (not that this one does) but John's (?) docketing does date the cover. Its missing a stamp, but retains a nice irregular block of three Nationals. Without lifting them from the cover to examine then for grills, 147s. If the name sounds familar, it is addressed to the co-founder of Cadbury Chocolates. By this date, John had been retired for about 10 years, and his sons were about to change chocolate to what we know now.

littleriverphil, Is this another of your Mendocino covers or is the CDS too illegible to know? Fun cover to have!

Unfortunatly, no, just can't read the postmark, although I do think it is from Pennsylvania, as I have another cover addressed to Elizabeth Cadbury (or Emma) in Bushhill, Pa. It is also where the Cadbury parent company Hershey is based. These covers were is an old shoe box I picked up at a flea market probably 25 years ago. All in slightly "less than desirable condition, cover fronts, illegible cancels, torn, etc, but they are interesting and I keep finding gems among the chaff. Here's the other Cadbury cover, a little less than a month early for this thread. See what I mean about the condition?