What Was In Your Mailbox Today??

Got this earlier in the week... It's in pretty decent condition, just needs ironed.

I finally got my hands on a few examples I needed for comparison
Took a while to find and definitely seemed longer to arrive but there here now
I'm Extremely happy with them!!!

Several lots of stamps I won on ebay, mostly older ones, since that what I'm interested in… now, to read up on those Washington's, and Franklins. LOL

Today I got this wonderful Esperanto postcard, mailed from Wallachisch Meseritsch in Moravia/Austria on 23 October 1902. It's now my oldest piece of Esperanto postal history, though I do have earlier postcards written in Bolak and Volapük.

I feel uncomfortable posting in this section. Feel like it's bragging, but I have to share this one. Heavy thin in upper RH, but when it's only the 2nd copy known, there's no waiting for a better one to come along.





The first #314 with Schermack control marks was recorded in 2013 on a political postcard from 1910. This copy, with the stamp control pattern and identical cancel was used by the Tax Payers League. They were an anti-prohibition political lobbyist operating from Detroit.

kcaramat, very nice! We know there were more of these at one point, but you are correct. Waiting for another one may take another 100 years!


Peter

A bonus (to me, at least), the mailing envelope from an ebay purchase:

Cancel reads: DIPLOMATIC MAIL at top, bottom reads DPO AE 09828. Date is largely not there, with 2021 showing. The security envelope throws off the cancel color, which is red.

France may be off the menu, but I can console myself with a glass of Calva -

This is Finley, born in mid-April, he arrived here 2 weeks ago.



(Boxes from a southern Ohio office.)

I received two space covers today: one of the space-flown STS-8 covers and a Colorano silk cachet cover depicting members of NASA Astronaut Group 8.

Got a shipment of stamps and not only did the post office not cancel anything on the cover, they plastered a bar-code sticker across all of them.

Thank you to the USPS.

Two packs of 55 Scott mounts and 11 MNH airmail booklet panes.

Are they not easily peeled, and can be repositioned?

This is one of a group of covers I bought recently. The others were all Great Britain postal stationery, but I thought it would be fun to have one addressed to a famous movie star of the 1940's. One of his best known roles was Captain Louis Renault in the classic 1942 film, Casablanca. Paid a buck for this. I am shocked - shocked that I got it so cheaply.

Postman delivered our "vacation mail". Included therein were two packets of attractive French colonial material from Rod222, valued correspondent from "Down Under".

Thanks, Rod.