What Was In Your Mailbox Today??

I received a can of Prinz Super Safe watermark fluid. Very exciting.

This came in as junk mail from Dish TV. It had a simulated stamp and cancellation. It was not addressed.

The stamp image was dark as shown - seems like even fake stamps are bad too.

I got a notice from the Michigan revenuers that my 2016 refund is taxable.

Short-wave UV lamp with long-wave UV bulb (in the white tube).




Pre WW-2 stamps from a dealer in Croatia.

I got this 1911 postcard from Iran in today's mail. In addition to the interesting picture, this postcard has three things that make it particularly attractive to me:

1) The message is in Esperanto, which makes it a candidate for my most important topical collection.
2) Esperanto postcards and covers from Iran are quite uncommon, and this is the earliest one I've found yet.
3) The delegate of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio who wrote it has an Armenian name. I'm half-Armenian, so that's definitely a plus!

The Earliest Known Use To Me (EKU2M) of the US flag stamp issued 9 February 2018, on a commercial cover. It looks better on cover than the image in the USPS' original announcement of the issue.

I got a few Esperanto congress cinderellas from ebay today, and they were mailed in this interesting envelope:


Is such a combination of New Zealand and Ross Dependency stamps even a legal usage? According to Wikipedia:


But this cover has no such cancellation.

got the new Illinois issue today celebrating 200 years

Received a 1938 Scott Modern album chock full of world wide stamps that I won at a local show blind auction for $30. Unfortunately, I think I may have overpaid!

A copy of Jim Mehrer's upcoming mail bid sale. I spied three lots I'm interested in.

This will be the second sale of his that I bid on at least one lot. My first win was in December 2017.

-MV

How about outside the mailbox? Some kind soul left it by the apartment mailboxes since it was reported delivered by tracking but misdelivered. In the lot of Navy covers was:

What I found particularly striking was the 2-color address style which I saw yesterday in a bumped thread on the forum:

(image from post by Jenny2U)
I think it could be the same writer, but your mileage may vary. Compare capital W, C, P/R among other points. Turning everything upside down can help in comparison, if you care to do that. Both are naval covers. There's nothing on the back of mine to help determine who the writer was.

Still, people back in the day were taught to write in (I think) 2 major styles so similarity is indeed possible that way.

I agree with you that they were written by the same person. My guess would be that your cover was sent by Chester Knowlson to himself. Note that his address is in West Philadelphia, then note that the USS Kane on the FDR cover was decommissioned in Philadelphia.

I came home from work in Brazil this afternoon to find this nice letter waiting for me. Filled with a lot of Canadian stamps, all with nice readable postmarks, handpicked as a giveaway for a postmark collector.



Thank you very much René!!

@Eiger,
Your letter was waiting for me as well! Nice cover with lots of machines with clear Dorset strikes, probably as good postmarks as is possible these days:




More importantly, inside was the prize I was fortunate to win on this site. https://goscf.com/t/58846&whichpage=2



Thank you very much Eiger!! The miniature sheets are in "post-office- fresh" condition, and will light up my kiwi collection.

Anybody knows what the 'A1' in bottom margins indicate? Seems impossible it can be sheet serial number 1, so what else?