Was A Single Stamp Your Gateway Drug?

For me it was US Scott #C1 and a realization that it wasn't terribly expensive to acquire. I aviation themed stamps appealed to me, so collecting US Airmails was a natural. I completed the bulk of my US airmail stamp collection within a few years. Only recently was I able to acquire the last four...the Zepps (of course). Still collecting airmail covers, though. And there are a few things left to acquire, if the money is ever there (a couple of booklets come to mind).

But nothing has really ever surpassed the thrill of that first MHN C1.

Are all of the kind of monogramed symbols, laid over one another in a way, symbols of the different societies that inventors and scientists might belong to?

The cogged wheel would be the mechanical engineers or even machinists, while the lightening bolt representing the electrical susyems or engineers and the grain some sort of society that represented the farmers or envestigators of biology and/or lining plants?

Puzzler replied:




Actually, that's not too far off.

AND THE ANSWER IS...

The symbols are:

(1) Cogwheel;
(2) Uplifted Wings; and
(3) Lightning Flash

And the meaning is:

(1) Power;
(2) Flight; and
(3) Electricity

It's documented here:

What a cool thread! Thanks to ikeyPikey for starting it!

I hope that this thread goes on & on & on and that new members find it!

This is it: 1963 8c Amelia Earhart - Catalog # C68. The stamp can be viewed here:

http://www.mysticstamp.com/pictures/stamps/C68.jpg