Un Stamp Club Cover Question

I am new to this group, although I have been a member of coin community for a while. I started collecting stamps as a kid in the 1940s and off and on since then. I have really been quite inactive for the last 20+ years, so I have lost touch with everything. I have pulled out a few items to ask this group about. One of them is this UN Stamp Club cover. I have no memory of ever seeing this type of cover discussed anywhere. What I know is that I organized a United Nations Stamp Club in my school and that our club was designated a Charter Member (I still have the certificate signed be the Chief of the UN Postal Administration and the Director of the UN Stamp Clubs {original signatures}) on April 15, 1954. I was the club secretary, so I was the one who received correspondence, which I still have. Back then we did not know that it might be better not to remove stamps from covers, but I left these on anyway for some reason. I will post some more of these later as a matter of interest.

Has anyone here seen any information about these covers or know anything about them? Any help at all would be appreciated.

First of all, welcome to Stamp Community Family!

As far as the topic of United Nations Stamp Club (UNSC) covers are concerned, I have not seen them before but as I look at the images you scanned, it appears there is no date in the postmark, suggesting it was probably a "bulk rate" mailing to UNSCs across the country.

Frankly, I didn't even know UNSCs ever existed until a Google search uncovered several items (i.e. membership card and pin) being offered for sale on ebay.

The key to the UNSCs are probably the joint affiliation with Scholastic Magazine as a means to bring the subject of United Nations into the schools. Curiously, I did find this letter to the editor that appeared in a 1959 Recreation Magazine on the subject:



On a personal note, I have several boxes of UN stamps and covers and for whatever reason there seems to be little interest in even discussing them not only here, but on most other stamp-related forums. I'm not sure if the reason is political (both the UN itself and the subject matter of many of the stamps) or it lies in the fact that most UN stamps have never appreciated much in value over the years. In any case, it never seems to spark much interest with collectors, although these rather old threads on the subject may be of some interest:

https://goscf.com/t/10581

https://goscf.com/t/21861

Thanks for the info wt1 and the threads....interesting!