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US Scott #26 on an April 25 1860 Burlington Vermont cover with an inverted year plug in the CDS, addressed to Albany, New York.  |
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US Scott #26 on an April 27 1859 Burlington Vermont cover, addressed to Mrs H. L. Sumner, Moriah, Essex County, New York.  |
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US Scott #11, plate position 15L6, on a 29 April 1857 Boston Massachusetts cover addressed to E. R. Wright (Postmaster), Middlebury, Vermont.  |
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Here's more history on the addressee of that cover, E.R. Wright (a/k/a Emerson Ransom Wright): Quote:
Emerson R. Wright of Barber and Wright. Wright's law practice with Edward D. Barber; as lawyer, justice of the peace, and grand juror, in Middlebury and other nearby towns such as Bristol, New Haven, and Weybridge, Vt.
Military duty as adjutant with Vermont 6th Regiment (1st Division) in the 1840s and subsequent representation of veterans and their families seeking pensions and/or land.
Graduate of Middlebury College, service as postmaster (1849-1853), and involved with local politics and Young Men's Democratic Society.   |
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Thanks for the history, wt1! Once again, you were able to dig up facts I wasn't able to find.  |
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US Scott #65 on May 6 Burlington, Vermont cover addressed to Reverend Henry Allen Hazen, care of Stephen Hand Guthrie, Zanesvilee, Ohio  |
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May 10th 2014 (yesterday) philatelic exhibition in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, personalized stamp and postmark commemoratives of the 160th aniversary of the city's railway station.  |
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Ripoll, Catalonia, May 17th 2014. 43rd Philatelic Exhibition, PM commemorative of the 175 years of the defense of the town in 1839, during the First Carlist War. Faint ordinary pm of the town. Personalized stamp showing the claim of the town for the front of its Romanic monastery to become Unesco World Heritage. Official cover from Ripoll's City Council.  |
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May 19th. 1938- Wrights, Pennsylvania. (Scott #C23) In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the advent of airmail, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Postmaster General James Farley established National Airmail Week for May 15-21, 1938 to celebrate and promote the fact the U.S. Postal Service moved mail reliably and with speed.
Postmasters were directed to bring to the attention of the public "the wonderful network of air lines operating day and night throughout the country, and the speed and economy with which letters and parcels may be dispatched over immense distances..."
Every citizen was encouraged to participate in the week's celebration by sending an airmail letter. In addition, each town was invited to create its own "cachet," a commemorative design to mark the event printed or stamped on the envelopes mailed that week. Today these envelopes are prized by collectors. Postmaster General James A. Farley During National Air Mail Week, 1938. The birth of the Eagle - Scott #C23
On May 14, 1938, the Post Office Department released a single blue and carmine airline stamp featuring an eagle which was taken from a sketch made by the President.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's original design for the 1938 airmail postage stamp with the annotation: "red border, blue eagle, white background ... Franklin D. Roosevelt, fecit." The designer at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing reworked the eagle and wording but as indicated by FDR's hand-written "fecit," this was the one postage stamp design that the president felt he had created from scratch and for which he took credit as the designer.
The red and blue bicolor stamp featuring the American eagle helped distinguish airmail letters from regular mail. The first day of issue coincided with National Air Mail Week, a nationwide campaign to promote the use of airmail. |
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Nice information and story, human interest. Thank you.
I didn't know that before.
Makes stamp collecting human.
Perhaps the eagle was made to be red as that colour is more eye-catching, draws the attention so to speak? |
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Barcelona, May 25th, 1952. International Eucharistic Congress. Bus Mobile PO.  |
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