Got Any Motorcycles??

Agustanz
I see what you mean you do cover all bases and I need a better book.

Al.

Al,
If you send me a message off the group I would be happy to e-mail you my master list in word format which has all the content of the encyclopedia I mentioned with dates of issue and Scott and SG numbers and a short description of over 900 pre year 2000 issues.
Regards
Gavin

Here are a couple more obscure issues.
The Haiti stamp has two very small motorcycles and the Guatemala stamp is interesting as it was used for Motorcycle Messenger delivery route between Guatemala City and Coban.





Regards
Gavin

Here are two that predate the first motorcycle stamp issue in Mexico in 1919. Perfins for the USA made Thor motorcycle. I also have two of these used on cover one each from 1919 and 1917.
Early covers are my sideline to the Italian collection.
I have the Thor the right way and revered so it can be read...






Sorry they are a bit out of focus!
Regards
Gavin

Here is Rod222 on his Z900







This was the first bike I could do a wheelstand on,
I rode from Perth to Adelaide a few times
and it never let me down once.

One day, not paying attention, I nearly hit a trailer
someone had left out on a busy road, I went between
the trailer and the kerb and shot out the other end.
I had it up for sale the next day,
and haven't rode since, apart form 200cc in Thailand
where I lived, that was just as dangerous

Nice bike Rod
Original paint if it had the original exhaust it would bring big money today.

Here is my favorite Italian motorcycle postal item...

It's postmarked 13/8/1916 and send from "Angelo Baldwin Motociclista"
Meaning he was a dispatch rider in the Italian army in the first world war. The letter was checked by the military censer in Milan.

It's posted to Gauiglia(?) Baldwin.... was it his mother?, wife, girlfriend or sister? She was she lived in Lugano only 5 miles into Switzerland from the Italian border. Why did she keep it all those years? What did he say in the letter it contained? Did he survive the war or was he one of the 700 thousand Italian deaths in WW1?
Was it the last communication she had with him and it was a treasured memento of her lost love??

This item is my favorite piece because it talks to me.

Regards
Gavin

Here is an image of my favorite motorcycle stamp: Motorcycle Messenger, a special delivery stamp engraved and printed by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co, London, and issued by Ethiopia on April 18, 1947, Scott No. E1, Stanley Gibbons No. E1. Perhaps a Wehrmacht WW2 surplus Mercedes-Benz?

- nethryk

That's a good stamp indeed...
Just out of interest here is what my records say about that stamp...

Ethiopia
sc E1 sg E357 30c 24.Apr.47 Express brown (No Wmk)
sc E3 sg E449 30c 1.Dec.62 Express yellow/brown (Wmk)

I have both and they look the same to me!

Regards
Gavin

Here is for me a nice motorcycle postal item... philatelicly it's probably worthless but as it's addressed to a worker at the Moto Guzzi factory in 1947 it's priceless to me as I collect.....
"Any philatelic material that depicts a motorcycle, or part thereof, or name of manufacturer, recognisable as being of ITALIAN ORIGIN."

The name IS on the cover up taken out on the image for the auction I won.

Regards
Gavin

Just bought this motorcycle related item. It beats my previous oldest by 1 year. This one is from France in 1899.
Even comes with the letter inside
It's not Italian related, but it is very old!

regards
Gavin

Collector of "Any philatelic material that depicts a motorcycle, or part thereof, or name of manufacturer, recognizable as being of ITALIAN ORIGIN."

What a super cover Gavin,
you must have been pleased as punch, to secure that one.

Thanks Rod, yes I was very pleased to get that one!
It has taken me 20 odd years to get one that old...
The search for something pre 1899 is ongoing...

Regards
Gavin

Thanks for that Rod, I had googled it but not found any pictures so thats great to see!
Regards
Gavin