Please Show Us Your Classic Advertising Covers!

Here's a few I have. I doubt the Rock Lake Hotel still exists, but I would have loved to tour it.

The building is still standing.

Robert

Was on the market in 2021-2022 with the following description:

Fencing, not the sport but the boundary indicator, how does one best advertise ones fence products when that is what your company makes. Advertising cover maybe?



Oh how boring. Perhaps add more illustrations?









Illustrations are just so.... ...flat. Lets add embossing.



Advertising covers can be so limiting with their only one or several pictures, even with embossing.

If one picture equals a thousand words, then one real item must equal a thousand pictures, right?
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Now that is advertising.

Not a great cover but I like the postmark and the image of the old factory with the horses and carriage's.

Picked up a nice classic gun cover at Wiscopex. John Pritzlaff founded his hardware store in 1866 which became the largest hardware company in Milwaukee eventually became one of the largest wholesale hardware companies and iron supply houses in the Midwest. It was known for selling hardware, sewing machines, and toys through mail order catalogs to wholesale accounts throughout the United States.

Not heavy on the advertising, but commercial from Studebaker to a newspaper in Nova Scotia. Wonder what was in there.

My Dad bought Studebakers until they stopped making them. Then he switched to Rambler.

Hmm, I think I see where Hoover got their logo in 1950...

Jack

Here are a few examples from my Texas collection.
Thos. Coggan Piano & Organ Postmarked "Galveston Tex Feb 1 1888"



"The Driskill" in Austin, TX. - Postmarked Jan 27, 1898

Thanks to our daughter's xmas giftcard to us, we stayed at this historic hotel, a few years ago, where our room ceiling was at least 25-30 ft high. Should you visit Austin, TX and want to be pampered, this is the place to stay. Check out their website, where the doorman opens the door for you to get a glimpse of historic elegance.

I found another interesting cover in my collection. Austin, Texas - State Lunatic Asylum Envelope (Circa 1870s), "Official Business" envelope of the Treasurer.
Ex Alice Erickson Collection. Thinking wording may be currently applicable to the various layers of government, of course, at your own discretion.

I really like that Texas Lunatic Asylum cover, and I agree with your sentiment.

Over on Stamp Smarter, we have a section with examples of many of these state and local official business envelopes, from a wide range of states. I also have material for states not included at present; I simply have been distracted and not completed putting them all together.

The home page is found here:
https://stampsmarter.org/learning/S...vCovers.html

The compilations were put together primarily in the hope that they might encourage state postal history collectors to consider starting a similar collection from their home states.

There are two sets of covers from Texas.

Covers from various Texas State administrative offices are displayed here.

https://stampsmarter.org/learning/S...20Covers.pdf

I would like your permission to add your cover to this presentation.

Many of the Texas State and County covers are from my collections. Those examples from other states were mostly harvested from ebay or provided by other state collectors who contributed examples to be included.

Mike

Mike, please feel free to use whatever images I post. Didn't know permission was needed as I've seen my pre -1900 Hawaii covers posted in various personal websites by individuals. Thanks for asking, though. Thinking images may have been harvested from major auction houses' catalogs. (I have an assortment of Hawaii & Galveston, TX covers posted in SCF).
I found yet another cover in my Galveston collection, that may suit your project.
From Columbus, TX (Colorado County) to Galveston, TX, 1884. Note: Cover reduced 3/4" at left. Good luck in your project and thanks for viewing.

hawaiianbrian:
And thank you for that permission. The cover image now in my "bucket list" of projects.

I harvest many images from ebay and auctions, primarily for research or projects like the Official Business covers, and occasionally to remind me of items I should have bought. I also "try" to record their source when I do. Some get used in study projects that make it into a digital format, and when they do, I provide the credit there. I can't identify the buyer or current owner, but I can credit the seller. I think that is only common courtesy.

In virtually any field of philatelic or postal history study today, it is nearly impossible for one person to accumulate "everything" necessary for serious research, and the digital images from the major auction houses, ebay and other internet sources, become valuable resources, and places much of that information at our fingertips to supplement our actual collection.

Mike