How Many Of US Collect Expo/Fair Related Items

Here are two cards from the 1907 Jamestown Exposition. Both have Norfolk, VA postmarks. One has the standard promotional exposition cancellation, but the other was cancelled on-site at the Exposition Station. The first is a better card, the second is a better cancel.

Looking at that card, I think it strange that it is titled that way. If I was going to church I do not think I would be toting a rifle with me. Artistic liscense maybe?

No1philatelist

Maybe they were worried about Indian attacks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India...acre_of_1622

I don't really collect them specifically, but I do have a nice accumulation in with my other Cinderella stamps. I also have a few cards and a couple programs/flyers. I usually get them mixed in lots that I've purchased.

That's exactly right. And since they weren't the best new neighbors, they had reason to be fearful.




Anything related to the topic is welcome. I'd love to see what you have!

Pilgrim were in Massachusetts, about 500 miles from Jamestown. so a mighty long walk to church.

I don't have my Cinderella's very organized yet but here are a few. I can post move later after I do some digging.

1926 International Philatelic Exhibition

1934 National Stamp Exhibition

1947 International Philatelic Exhibition

Ah, these are beauties and I have some of them myself. But before we veer off into *stamp exhibitions*, just a reminder that this thread is intended for *expositions* such as World's Fairs and trade fairs, etc. I'm not knocking your contribution, jconey, only trying to keep things on topic.

Understood, not a problem I'll also look for world fair and other expo stuff as I dig. I know I have some, somewhere...

A bump and move back on track. Here is my latest obtained PPIE item:



Note the PPIE perfins as well.

A registration postmark from the PPIE model post office! Now that is something you don't often see -- thanks for posting!

You are welcome GregAlex. I have one item I need to find to post a photo that is even less often seen. Some day I will find it in my stuff and post it here, a sender's receipt for sending a Registered item from the PPIE Model Post Office complete with the PPIE Model Post Office postmark.

PPG,
Great cover and cancels indeed. 400(a) with Expo Sta cancels!!!
And PPIE Co perfins

One can only imagine what was enclosed from "Department of Official Coins and Metals".
Probably not this.

As a "relaxing" sideline to US and France I collect the 1939 New York Worlds Fair (NYWF).

Like Don, I went to the 1964 NY World's Fair as a child. As a lad of 7, I was unimpressed with Michelangelo's "Pieta," but I enjoyed the half-scale(?) dinosaur models in Sinclair Oil's "Dinoland." Perhaps I should have collected that fair.

But for stamp collecting, the 39/40 NYWF is just great. The Trylon and Perisphere are visually striking on US 853, which I find one of the more arresting US issues ever given the degree of abstract clarity, for its time and since.



But that's just the beginning. There were dozens of international issues on the occasion, so many so that the NY Sun newspaper issued a rather lengthy, but slightly incomplete chart enumerating them.

Here is just a tiny tidbit. It seems that every one of these international issues leads to fascinating historical background.

In this case, a somewhat ordinary business cover from the Dominican Republic bearing several of the Dominican Worlds Fair tribute issue. one Sc.343, two of the 3 centavo #344, and two of the C33 airmail. The return address is in the capital city of "Cuidad Trujillo," which the dictator known as "El Jefe" renamed after himself in 1936. Trujillo's visage is on the stamp in the lower center. The NYWF stamps depict the Trylon and Perisphere of the NYWF and a proposed Columbus lighthouse featured on a number of other DR stamps of the day.





Then there are dozens of interesting overprints on various of the the international issues. Some are often forged (Portuguese and French colonies in particular).
Here are two Ecuador 437 (a two centavo #388 from their multi-stamp NYWF issue, but overprinted to five centavos). These with a doubled overprint, a known variant not separately numbered in Scott (as of the 2009 and 2017 catalogues I usually use).