Show Us Your Oldest Stamped Or Stampless Cover.

jamesw..very nice cover...By the way, is that your first girlfriend's lipstick mark on the back...???

JUST KIDDING.....

No Wert, this was back in the '70s. She used a much darker colour.

This one is NOT mine, nor is it Canadian, but it is REALLY cool.
New York, July 4, 1776, addressed to John Hancock, who, at the time it was being mailed, was off signing the Declaration of Independence.
http://www.aripex.org/wp-content/up...k-Letter.jpg

I would imagine chipg, every American stamp collector would love to get their hands on THAT cover...I know I would...

wert:
I don't think you have to be American to covet that one.

I do wonder what it said inside. Hopefully it wasn't "John: Whatever you do with that note you're working on, don't call attention to yourself."

C.

Oldest...

Nice 1874 cover koala...Dang that heavy cancellation..

I find this subject very instructive. Some covers have 2 cancellations like the one I have sent. Why?

Here's the answer I think... or at least, a part of it (highlight in green). Hope I'm not the only one who didn't now

The link : http://www.rpsc.org/Library/SmallQu...l_Queens.htm

Paragraph four :

"...And of course there are the postmarks. This period (1870-1875) was particularly rich in its variety because the regulations required that postage stamps were to be cancelled with a killer, or failing that an ink cross, that the sending post office's postmark – generally circular but there are several types – single ring, split ring, double split ring, skeleton, three ring are some of them – was to be applied to the envelope, not the stamp, and the receiving office was to backstamp it, as were all offices it passed through en route if any."

You want to see examples of obliterators, go here :
http://www.die-briefmarke.com/empir...-stamps.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel...n_%28mail%29
The Wikipedia links gives many other links at the bottom of the page

Enjoy

Here is a part of a 3c queen tied to cover. Surprised this was allowed to pass.
London April 1st, 1875. On back is a Sandwich April 2nd. Seems the mail back then moved faster than it does now.

Hey nodeli

Cut some more off and make it a "diagonal half"...It is worth more.

JUST KIDDING....Nice cover.

Thanks wert,

I am willing to accept it is a diagonal, with a drunken postal clerk tring his best 'freehand' bisection.

Not sure if this is admissible in this category. The only marking on the cover is "dry dock". The letter inside is from May 24th, 1873. With no cancellation on the cover, where does this fit in the philatelic world?





Found some history on this establishment and the owners(on cover).
http://www.walkervilletimes.com/lagoon.htm

Goes to to show you, live in an area all your life not knowing all its history, and it takes a piece of old mail to make one dig into the past and find the wonders that were.

Nice red guide line in selvedge (1992)... and 2 postmarks in front of envelope, one more on back!

My oldest stampless folded letter is this one to Albert Smith of Hanover, MA that was postmarked in Boston on November 2, 1803 -- docketing on the letter seems to indicate the sender was a James Prince. Sadly, it is beginning to show its age.

This is my oldest Canadian cover:

Mitchell, Ontario, March 8, 1873

Wow tomiseksj...That is an OLD cover.

BeeSee...Now that is a pretty cover and stamp...