Some New US Modern Covers

I just picked up some new ones as my local stamp club. Not much of value, but some of the Company logos were interesting.

This one certainly looks like a phone company flier. They are certainly appealing to the talkers:



Here is an older Disney item, though not cancelled. Anyone have a date on this?



The owners of this company seemed to put a lot of thought into the company name. I guess they were trying to imply a Quality Good delivered on time?



This is one of your standard mailings returned due to lack of postage. I like the message, though. "Place Stamp over Fist" ... and that is exactly what they did.

Thanks for posting. Very cool postal history and great to see it and that it has a home. Intriguing.

You have to figure that the Disney was 1982 since the others were that year.
Tom

They are a Fluid Power Valve and Hose Fitting Manufacturer...for airplanes. I assume that marketing quality is/was important to them and their customers.

And, since the cover was addressed to 'Accounts Payable', I'm thinking that they wanted to be paid on time, too.

From the same box, here is one that was mailed on September 4, 1981, for 15 cents, when the rate changed to 18 cents on March 22, 1981. (Darkened to make the cancellation stand out.)

I guess someone at Mellon Bank was on the ball ... about (4) months late. They added 3 more cents to get to the correct rate, using a different PB meter and a day later.

This company logo from the same group is interesting. I guess if you want to see towels (or rags), you have to advertise them somehow.

And lastly, an FDC was snuck in there somewhere.

Partime:

I am an avid saver/collector of contemporary covers, especially those that match my topical collections. Below are three that I show as examples.

1. First is a great find of a contemporary cover fitting into my Aircraft on Stamps & Covers collection. It is a non-philatelic commercial cover from an appropriate business franked with a contemporary definitive stamp that has a fantastic reproduction of a Bristol F.2B WW I fighter in RAF colors.



2. Here is another Aircraft on Cover that I got in the mail in 2014. It is a solicitation for money from the Commemorative Air Force
with a photo of a Curtiss Model 84 Helldiver.




3. This is another solicitation for money from the Gettysburg Foundation. It would fall into the Junk Mail category, but I save these fully illustrated covers because I see them as contemporary examples of 19th- and early 20th-century advertising covers.



Don