Cover To Adolphe Manjou

I found this in a dealers box today at the Merchantville Stamp Club Bourse. It is addressed to Adolphe Menjou, the actor, and has a back stamp from Gimbles in New York. I remember Gimbels stamp department in their Philadelphia store.








I picked up about 18 free frank covers I will post as I get time. Most are from the 30's to the 50's but I have a few 19th century covers with the earlest being from 1832.

Interesting in that Adolphe Menjou almost certainly didn't like Will Rogers. Polar opposites politically.

Lots of interesting items all on one cover. Nice find, vinman.

Kirk

PS to RevCollector... yeah, but Will Rogers liked him

Of course Will Rogers liked him, Menjou was probably good for comic inspiration.

Nice cover. Menjou was a well known collector in the 30s and 40s.

Nice association cover from the standpoints of addressee and sender.

Don

Wasn't Will Rogers famous for saying: "I never met a man I didn't like."

I never knew Adolphe Menjou was a stamp collector, but then the actor's popularity was well before my time.

In any case, I found this brief newspaper article rather entertaining (and surprising) as his stamp collection was said to be worth as much as $100,000 in 1942, which is the equivalent of $1.45 million in today's dollars!