Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

First Day Covers for June 22, 1943 (Scott 909) and 1956 (Scott 1078):

Let's move to the back of the book for June 23rd. A 1988 cover bearing the Igor Sikorsky airmail stamp (Scott C119) with a First Day cancellation from Stratford, CT.

Another repeat for June 23.
Canadian excise stamp used as postage (tsk tsk!) on this day in 1933.

...and something a little different (for me anyway) an O.H.M.S. official cover postmarked from the Government Buildings in Fiji in 1977.

June 23 1948 airmail from Union Pacific



Complete with perfins

and another, same day, same year, but postmarked two hours earlier...to our good friends at Traveler's Insurance.

Just curious: Isn't 1948 a very early use of Zone Codes for cities as in "New Haven 10, Conn."?

ZIP Codes started in 1963, I believe. Zone Codes were used prior to that in the 1950s, but I don't recall seeing many examples dating back into the late 1940s. Does anyone know when Zone Codes were first used in the US? Does it have something to do with the mail being addressed to a larger city (New Haven) or perhaps specifically to a major company (Travelers Insurance) within that city?

(EDIT: I've answered my own question. The "Postal Zoning System" (forerunner to ZIP Codes) was established in major US Cities in 1943, thus the scanned cover is not a particularly early use of a postal zone number, as in 1948 it would have been in use for up to five years already.)

found this on wiki answers:

1943: The United States Post Office Department divides cities into zones. This was a precursor to the Zoning Improvement Plan Codes, or ZIP Codes.

In some if not all areas, the zones wound up as the last two digits of the new ZIP codes.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_...xzz1yflXCh8l

Thanks, Jamesw. I think our responses crossed in posting. It might be an interesting idea to find some of the earliest uses of zone code from 1943 as in written addresses or even envelopes or letterheads showing its use.

I'd venture to guess that it wasn't easy to get the general public to start using the system, given that public attention was given to other things, most notably, the war effort, as the US was in the midst of World War II at the time.

Wt1. I have a number of covers addressed to Travelers Insurance. The earliest hand written cover is addressed to New Haven 10 on October 1, 1944. There's also a printed reply envelope dated November 24, 1944, but as that was provided by the Company, I'd say that on wouldn't count

June 24, 1954, Albany NY to Minneapolis MN, Liberty FDC

It certainly makes you wonder why the USPOD chose Albany (instead of NYC) to issue a stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty.

Incidentally, did you see these fascinating pictures of the Statue of Liberty being assembled in Paris? The photos are at this link. It really puts into perspective just how big the statue really is!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-people.html

Thanks for the fun link, wt1!

I was hoping someone was going to pick up on the name of the recipient. It's one that I recognized from a childhood of listening to the Golden Gophers on the radio with my dad. I bought this cover because of that name.

Ike Armstrong was the athletic director at the University of MN through the '50s. I looked him up to see if he did anything else of note and read that he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his performance as coach of the Utah Utes.

No sports fans in our Family?

Okay, I posted this awhile ago on another thread, but here's my contribution to the June 25th date, along with a good reason as to why a seemingly mundane cover and cancellation for June 25, 1920 turned out to be much more when studying the cover:

Here's the cover (front and back):




I had this cover in a box of "stuff" for quite awhile before I related the return address on the flap of the cover is that of Neysa McMein, the commercial artist that was the subject of a US postage stamp herself!



Here's a brief biography along with examples of some of her artwork:

http://www.americanartarchives.com/mcmein.htm

It just goes to prove that one should never discard a seemingly plain cover, as you may never know what you could find out about the sender.

In fact, even the addressee had quite a history, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Codman

Very cool, wt1! It pays to be a pack rat!

Here is my contribution for today:

June 25, 1958, Mackinac Bridge MI to Minneapolis MN



I found this inside.



I never knew that new issues were announced in daily newspapers. Obviously there were many more collectors in those days.