Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

More critters... like the Joint offering

Today is October 5th and here is my submission -- two 5c Grants (Scott 281) on an 1898 registered cover from Pierceville, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky. The addressee, J. M. Robi[n]son, Norton and Company, was a wholesale drygoods dealer.

For October 7th:

A postmark issued this very morning in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a town close to Barcelona, for its 2011 stamp exhibition. It commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Extremadura (West of Spain, on the Potugal border) immigrant association of this town. The map of Extremadura, with the colours of its flag (green, white, black) is portrayed against a background of the Catalan flag (four red stripes on a golden field). The stamp is a personalized one, issued also today.

Note: To avoid misunderstanding just to say that, as I live in Barcelona, we're 6 hours ahead of the SCF time, so (for me) when I first wrote this post, it was 15.12 h, not 9.12 a.m.

A nice 1914 flag cancel from Newport, RI for October 8th:

For October 9th (both front and back of cover shown).

Does anyone find it interesting that the Philadelphia post office apparently burned the midnight oil while getting this cover to its destination, as the front is postmarked 1 AM and the reverse postmarked 4:30 AM?

Also, for anyone well versed in postmarks, at first glance I thought the round Philadelphia postmark was virtually the same type of imprint on both the front and the back, but upon closer examination you will see that there are variations in the dial type with the front being 6.5mm between the "19" and "01" and on the reverse 9.5mm between those numerals.

A couple of more, not nearly so studied as wt1's
... nice too I think.

Ok, it's not a cover, but it's got a stamp, and is dated October 9.
Hey, it's Thankgiving here in Canada. Give me this one.




Part of a hoard of cheques with stamps I got yesterday at auction. Will probably put some of these up for sale here later, if anyone's interested.
Happy turkey!
James

wt1, both postmarks were from American Postal machine Co.. The Station G was from a model B38 and the Station B receiving was from a Model S31. The S31 was used for service markings (Transit, Received, Train Late, etc.) and that receiving marking is a service marking type 23.

I just love this thread. Something new every day.

Thanks for starting it Stamperdude! Wonderful idea.

Love that octagonal cancel on the chewue (check) and the tree FDCs.

Written on October 10, 1893 and postmarked in Liberty, Missouri on October 11th, this postal card is Scott UX10, issued December 16, 1891.





I found interesting that the 8-hour day was a central demand of the Chicago labor movement when it emerged in 1864, that the issue remained unsettled as of 1893 when the writer of this card sought information from the American Federation of Labor, and that the 8-hour work day didn't become a reality in the U.S. until the New Deal's Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. See http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohist...ges/417.html

The writer's professor, Dr. Charles Lee Smith, became the Chair of History and Political Science at William Jewell College in January 1891, but resigned in 1905 to accept the presidency of Mercer University, Macon, Ga. See http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/gr...ith179bs.txt

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to identify the writer (appears to be James John S. Shouse) -- any thoughts would be appreciated!

Wait a minute! Am I missing something? The writer of that postal card is a college student looking for the AFL to send him a list of publications, but yet didn't think to provide the AFL with any address in which to forward the information!?

Or maybe back in that day a letter addressed to the writer in care of William Jewell College would be enough of an address?

That was my assumption.

According to "History of William Jewell College", published in 1893, the student population for the 1891-92 session was 250 so it is conceivable that mail addressed by name c/o the college would find its intended recipient.

This card, postmarked October 12, 1903, was addressed to one of the proprietors of the Galbraith Springs resort in Tennessee.



Some background on the resort, a popular "water cure" or hydrotherapy site, is available at http://www.tn.gov/tsla/exhibits/tnr...Pamphlet.pdf