My First Cinderellas

Hi all, I would appreciate any information on these. I normally do not pay any attention to Cinderellas but these caught my eye and were inexpensive. I suppose that the Hussey is a repro/fake? The Pan American expo from the event of the same name in Buffalo in 1901? The WPG verified receipt is some type of Ham radio item? The war relief and the Nickel plate line mystify me. The via airmail sticker seems to be self-explanatory. The problem with this stuff is that if I get interested in them then it will be one more topic to add to my growing list of interests. Oh well . . .

I don't know about these but they are pretty cool. I see why you bought them. DD

The Nickle Plate Line was the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yo...uis_Railroad

There are stock certificates out there for the scripophily collectors.

Not Ham radio, but commercial radio. The printing indicates "Verified Reception" and the initials in each corner spell out EKKO. We've had a few previous threads on the very subject as shown at the link below:

https://goscf.com/t/27663

The Buffalo one is yes, from the Pan-Am expo there in 1901. I have one here somewhere to give to my aunt who collects Pan-Am stuff- they seem pretty common.

Thanks, anyone have a thought on the hussey's?

Apparently WPG radio, Atlantic City, is still in business today. I found this link to it's historical past.

http://www.eht.com/oldradio/history/wpg/wpg.htm

The Hussey's looks fine to me. It is 87L75 from 1880. After the POD suppressed the local posts Hussey's continued as a messenger service. Hussey's and Boyd's were the 2 most common of the local posts and many of their stamps are quite common. The value for mint is a couple bucks and normally about doubled for used copies. Used copies on cover have a nice premium.

Would the air mail label be considered a cinderella? Aren't those called etiquettes?

Zuzu


Another new term - I thought etiquette was which fork you picked up first.

Always go for the one shaped like a spoon!

Although Air Mail Etiquettes is the correct term, they do loosely come under the category of "cinderellas". Here are some examples:

http://www.cinderellas.info/columns...t/index.html

Thanks everyone, everyday is a learning experience, which I really enjoy.

yakboomer - very nice start to your collection. All new to me

Ah, thank you for the link, wt1. Those are beautiful!