Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

A postcard postmark for Point Arena and a cover from Caspar for today.
The Caspar postmark is Caspar's fancy oval town and county postmark. The earlist recorded use of this device was Jul 28, 1882. This usage is 11 days later, on a double weight letter to Frank Cooper at the U.S. mint in San Francisco. It is also one of five cover I have from H.B. Phillips, the Caspar mill superintendant to his friend Frank Cooper.Four of which bear the Caspar town and county postmark.

August 9, 1910 - Russia Registered Cover from St. Petersburg to London, England – Forwarded to Deal

Letter was sent by Alexander Samoylovitsh (Samoylovich) who was persecuted by Stalin and the NKVD, arrested and executed in 1938. According to Wikipedia, "From 1907 he (Samoylovich) taught Türko-Tatar languages at St. Petersburg University". Samoylovich was most known as a Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences for his work in writing major works on the language, literature, folklore and ethnography of Türkic peoples.

Letter is addressed to Arthur Denman Esq M.A., F.s.A. 29 Cranley-gardens, South Kensington who was an Honorary member of the ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON in 1910.

Here's an interesting cover from the "City by the Bay". Cover says it all.

Forgot to mention this cover came in to me with the Hawaii first day on page 122 of this thread.

9 August 1921 Pas de Calais France to Minneapolis MN
Summer Fun

Today's postmarks is an unreported doane cancel from 1909 Little River, Cal. The previous postmark, Men 2130 is a 27.5mm circle with 10 mm between the first letter of the town name...L and the first letter of the state..C This new CDS is a circle with a diameter of 29.5 mm with 15 mm between the first letters of town name and State. Of course, the John H. Williams book was published in 1997.

Four postmarks for today.A postcard from Ukiah, a cover front from Vernon CT, a 3 cent National bank note 136 with a split grill, and a very early Upper Mattole double ring CDS





An interesting cover front;





The split grill 136;




This double circle CDS is cataloged as Hum 4910 in the John H Williams
book California Town Postmarks 1849-1935 with an EKU of Jul 24, 1888. Mine is a bit earlier..Aug 13, 1883 4 years and 11 months earlier!

The postmark for today is Mendocino's second Octagon postmark Men 2350. The EKU for this postmark listed in California Town Postmarks 1849-1935 is Apr 14 1879. This one was struck on Aug 14, 1875.

After two back to back very early postmarks, I'm back to postcards one from Mendocino and another from Albion

Aug 15 1941 Huy Belgium

My postmark for today is from the town that my maternal grandmother's Uncle Nels Iverson founded, Iversen, Cal. It was a shipping point for railroad ties and tanbark, and never got very big. The highest compensation paid to the postmaster in the 20 years this office was open was $69.00 in 1909. But today I present a registered letted, sent on today date 1907, postage and registration fee paid by a pair of Scott U.S. 304. The cover had a couple of interesting auxiliary markings, A purple straight line "Delay in Delivery, if any, caused by insufficient address" on the front and a purple Santa Cruz Reg.Div. two ring time dial on the back. I'm not sure that those are called as this is the only one I've seen.







To show how small Iversen was, I've included this photo (taken in 1907) of a busy day at Iversen, and a photo of the loading chute. The large spoked wheel raised and lowered the chute, that is cords of tanbark stacked along side. Note how close the ship is to the rocks!

jimjung That one is 2nd August, 2:00-3:00 in the afternoon, not 15th August. :)

The 16th... two war rate postcards, Fort Bragg, and Fortuna.







The 17th...Redwine and Piercy on the 18th

Aug 20 Erquelinnes Belgium

Manchester, Cal 1884. The population of Manchester in 1880 was 84, eight of them members of my family. No luck here, this handwriting doesn't match any of the samples I have. :D But no matter, I like the cover.