Amateur Hand-Painted FDCs

I like the covers Don

I like them - simplistic but very effective

I have been a little reticent to post this item as it does not quite fit the title. First, it is not painted, just hand drawn and; second, the artist is unknown (to me). However, since I would really like to know the name of the artist, I decided to post.
Any information would be appreciated.
I have seen this same drawing perhaps half a dozen times or so, not all were on FDCS. At present, my best guess is Grace Cheek, Prairie City, Illinois. Thank you...
Respectfully submitted:
jrc531

jrc531: I second that this was made by Grace Cheek. I have seen other examples in the 1940's, and all don't quite relate to the stamp - kind of odd. For instance, I've seen a copy of #971 Volunteer Firemen, and it has a cachet of a red Cardinal.

jrc531, Greetings:

Re: the subject of this thread.

I chose the word 'hand-painted' thinking mostly about the 'hand', so 'hand-drawn' fits nicely.

I chose the term 'FDCs' as this is where most of the action is, nowadays, but the emphasis in 'FDCs' belongs on the 'C'.

Great (and eminently suitable) cover!

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Those are wonderfull

Thanks for sharing everyone.

Dianne

an area I want to expand

blcjr,
The second cover you posted on 11/8/15 is addressed to Mrs. N.P.Swayne of Malvern PA. I have a few covers in my collection addressed to or from her. It appears she wrote to the local boys that were in the armed forces during the war. It looks like she kept the boys updated with goings on in the town and towns people. I will bid on any letters I find related to her during the war. I noted some of her covers on ebay lately and a few other covers from the surrounding area with correspondence by local woman to the boys in the service. I am making a guess that she may have been in a letter writing campaign during the war to keep up the moral of our troops.
Vince

Vince

mcgeesorg ... You're in !

Consider the topic title re-engineered to "Amateur Hand-Crafted FDCs"

Meanwhile, on a yet-more-tangential note:

http://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps...day-cov.html ... 2016 U.S. stamp program: great potential for combo first-day covers

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Q/ Is it my imagination, or did they always manage to put a level slogan cancel on an FDC in the good old days?

First guy to promise "Make Slogan Cancels Straight Again" gets my vote.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

ikeyPikey, it's not just you. I sent in twelve, and this was the best of the dozen! Only a third were even vaguely collector-quality. Very frustrating!

How bizarre. The Costco Cafe uses a cutting frame to make sure that their pizza slices are identical ... Pat Herst once sent me a positioning mask (cut from an index card) that would allow me to reliably create SOTNs on my outbound mail ... and that was the best of twelve?

Okay. Lemons into lemonade: use IrfanView to isolate & level the slogan cancel.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey