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Someone went to great lengths to create the set. Do you know their origins?
I'm afraid I don't. I assume that the covers were all prepared by the addressee --Charles H. Hermann. Wait until you see what he did for tomorrow... |
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I couldn't find much of anything on Charles H. Hermann in terms of a biography, but I do find a great number of cover-related items for sale on ebay and other auction sites with his name on them. I also found an auction house where some of his covers were being auctioned off in lots. It seems he was a cover collector back in the day (circa 1928). There were also a few obscure references/acknowledgements to him in Meekel's Weekly Stamp News (circa 1917-1919). As to his specialties, it seems that covers in general were his interest, as there are regular covers, air mail covers and even local post covers referenced with his name/address on them. He was located in Los Angeles during his early years and in Farmington, New Mexico as shown on some covers through the mid to late 1940s. Here's a link that shows a small lot of covers that were handled at auction in 2011. Small value (relatively speaking) but as we collectors would say, the value is not in the monetary return but in the enjoyment one has in acquiring and collecting these things in one's lifetime: http://www.ericjackson.com/auction/...+Local+Posts(I also found references to Charles Hermann having been a State Revenue Collector and his expertise has been recited in the Springer Catalog. He was also said to be working on a Trading Stamp Catalog (never published) at the time of his death.) |
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Some of the covers addressed to Hermann in the Jackson auction lot were postmarked in 1974 so I assume he was relatively young when those last day of air mail rate covers were created. As you'll see in my post for August 1st, he was quite prolific. |
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Love that Aerogramme (Air Letter Sheet). Is it UC32 (back inscription in 3 lines) or UC32a (back inscription in 2 lines)?
Also that Idlewild Airport Mail Facility machine cancel is very attractive. I don't recall seeing one before! |
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I'm impressed by the quantity of August 1st covers you were able to post.  I'm afraid to ask how many covers you own. I must say my favorite is the very first one. The colors of the cancel in combination wit the stamps has me hypnotised. Quote:
Why did he put the 5˘ stamps on a slant? I'm wonder if the sender was replicating a plane tacking off by positioning his stamps this way  |
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Why did he put the 5c stamps on a slant? Perhaps he enjoyed hand cancels more than the wavey-lined machine obliterations and wanted to have the stamp free, as much as possible, of the wavey lines to see the design better? |
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Is it UC32 (back inscription in 3 lines) or UC32a (back inscription in 2 lines)?
The back flap is sealed so I don't have access to the back inscription but when shining a bright light through that portion of the aerogramme it appears to be three lines. Per my 2011 Scott Specialized, that would make it UC32a. The back is also interesting. It has a nice, clean Frankfurt receiving stamp and I assume the annotation about the 1c stamp being added at AMF Idlewild was made by the clerk who added the stamp. EDIT: The aerogramme rate had increased from 10c to 11c on July 1, 1961.  |
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August 4, 1967 First Day of Issue of the 6c Air Mail card (Scott UXC7) postmarked Farragut State Park, Idaho.  Did you know that...? Quote:
The Farragut Naval Training Station, located near Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, was only operational between 1942 and 1946, but during that time it was the largest city in Idaho, the largest business in Idaho, and the second-largest U.S. naval training station. Named for Civil War hero Adm. David G. Farragut, it trained sailors from 23 different states and by June 15, 1946, the day its doors closed, a total of 293,381 recruits, or "boots," and over 25,943 service-school sailors had passed through its doors. At least two Medal of Honor recipients and one Navy Cross recipient, along with a future governor of Idaho, spent time at the station. After its decommissioning, it served as the Farragut College and Technical Institute. Today it is the site of Farragut State Park and a small U.S. Navy acoustic research detachment. |
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And who could forget my lucky win from Huckles888's giveaway late last year! I still haven't. Dated August 6, 1892  Where have you gone Mr. H? It's been a while! |
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