Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

Here is an entry for August 5. It's a nice clean cancel, rather unusual for India, on an Airmail letter.

A first day cover for August 6th:

Here is kind of an interesting one. When the colony of Gold Coast gained independence in 1957 and changed it's name to Ghana, quantities of the older stamps were overprinted with the new name using a large crude hand stamp. I am not sure whether this was done centrally or at individual Post Offices, but it was soon replaced by the more common official overprint. Note that the overprint was applied to the stamp but the country designation on the cancel remains the same.



And for the same date, another New Zealand Charity Issue.

My submission for August 8th. A low point in US politics to be sure, but it still made for an interesting cover:

The companion cover for August 9th (1974), showing the Inauguration of Gerald R. Ford as President of the United States:

A first day cover for August 10th:

A nice U.S. Official Prestamped envelope with an FDC Cancel.

A few minutes early perhaps, but while I think of it, here's a FDC for August 11th:

August 11th must have been a good day for letters. I have three to add to the selection.

The first is quite unusual to find. It is a Thomas Cook and Sons perfin on cover from their New York Office and cancelled August 11, 1937, Grand Central New York.



The second is a prestamped envelope mailed in 1943 with a nice slogan cancel of "Buy War Savings Bonds (And?) Stamps".



The third is an FDC all the way from Hong Kong.

Here's another for August 11th (sorry I'm late).



And just in case I get tied up over the weekend, here are ones for the 13th and 14th.

And for the 13th, what has to be one of my all-time favorite covers. These are OHMS perfins in the proper stamps (Registration and Airmail) on an Airmail Registered cover from Ottawa to the U.S.

Nice cover! Interesting form of address. Not in the "green book" that I recall.

A style book of some sort? I am not sure of the reference.

The "His Excellency" would have been a formal address for either the position of Governor General of Canada or the Lieutenant Governor of any of the provinces. Both those positions are pretty much ceremonial and are not elected positions. Perhaps just automatically awarded the title to the word governor?

I am still trying to discover the identity of the individual who used the hand stamp (Assistant Secretary to ....) that you can see under the Air Mail stamp. If it had been going to a Canadian Address, that hand stamped signature would have been all that was required on the envelope for free franking.

Yes, a style book from the early 70's (in emerald green and gold cover) in which the proper social address etiquette for both US and other countries was used by social (aka likes of Perle Mesta, etc.) circles in DC....

I think it quite fun the Canadian sender chose to use their form of address for a US Governor... obviously forgetting, or overlooking the idea that we'd revolted against the throne. :)

Late post for the 10th - but how can we overlook Herbert Hoover?



and always a nice reminder! for today




and for our coin collector friends