Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

It's the Hawaii State Flag, although it incorporates the Union Jack said to be a remnant of the period in Hawaiian history when it was associated with the British Empire.

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hawaii

Littleriverphil, you are right it is a stiffener. I just keep it because that's the way I found it. WT1, I did not know it was one of Bruce's first. Thanks.

Sure enough! Even says so under the flag I saw the colors and assumed..




The left side being trimmed made me think that. Is that a current disaster plan?

A postcard from Eureka and a cover from Mendocino city are the two items I have with today's date in their postmarks. Is there any way to remove scotch tape remains? I hate that stuff! This card has an un-recorced postmark, a doane cancels used as a transit mark and a postmark from one of Del Norte county's ten towns, It still a bit wild and unsettled up at top northwest corner of the state! What a stage ride that must have been, it is still a beautiful drive. This 1866 cover addressed to South Franklin, Mass is one of a pair from the author to the same addressee, the other is from Jan of 1868, I'll save that for another time. Wish I had several more just like it!

Today is a postcard from Salsig, a little short lived logging town built along side the Elk Creek railroad. Salsig had a very interesting trestle, it was curved and then divided. That is the Post office on the upper right. Unfortunately, if this photo was ever put on a postcard, I haven't found it. Photo, postmark and, view side.

Here is a Scott 114 from the pictorial series. One of my favorite series. Posted August 1st, 1870.

Kind of hit the jackpot with Aug 1st, two rather unusual postcards, and two covers all have today's date.
The first postcard is a rather clever advertising ploy by the photographer, I have to wonder if he ever sold many as postcards, his use of his own card is the only one I've ever seen. As samples of the quality of his work, he had used three images of the Point Arena Hot Springs. It was mailed from Point Arena, so W W Fairbanks may have been back to do a photo shoot.







The second card has Sherwood's doane postmark, and it looks like the postmaster should have had that other cup of coffee before he set the new date in the device, he's got the CDS inverted, the bars should be to the right of the CDS.





The first cover has a corner card and Mr Carothers also typed his return address. My last cover for today was sent to Ireland, a very scarce foreign usage from the tiny mountain top community of Cahto,Cal

August 3, 1843 - Transatlantic GB to Canada

1843 letter to Montreal - carried by British packet, the Cunard Line 'Hibernia' out of Liverpool on 4th August arriving Halifax 16th August 1843.
The handstamp, applied at Quebec, is a double/triple strike of Arnell A.13 '1/4d Cy' recorded as used at Quebec 1843-1844.

A couple of postcard postmarks for today, both from Mendocino county, Fort Bragg (stamp missing) and Mendocino.

A postcard from Potter Valley.

Every so often I go off on a tangent unrelated to stamp collecting when I see unique town names in postmarks. In the case of Potter Valley, California, I came up with this photograph of a restored building located in the town. Totally unrelated to stamps, I know, but quite an impressive structure (architecturally speaking):

Nice find wt1. I've seen this home, and have to say it is impressive, but looks totally out of place among the all the wood frame houses near it.

Today's postcard is from the opposite side of the county, back over on the coast, Fort Bragg and features a view of Main street, now California Highway 1. You may recognize the Hotel Winsor up the street.

This earlier view of Main Street shows a large open frame water tower behind the Winsor Hotel.

I'd never noticed that of the two Main Street Fort Bragg cards above that the card I showed first was postmarked two years before the second card with the earlier view was mailed.Someone had a older un-used postcard?

Four postmarks todays, two Mendocino county postcards, Fort Bragg (missing stamp) and Ukiah, and a cover from Blue Lake with an unrecorded Arcata, Cal Rec'd used on the back as a transit marking.