I Just Got A Bunch Of US Covers With Some Interesting Stamps...

The early airmail covers to Denmark are particularly nice, especially if the fall during the 1924-1927 period when those airmail stamps were intended for use.

Q/ Does one often see (what looks like) that Danish equivalent of a USPOD "Officially Sealed" label?

Q/ Is the second half extant on the back of the cover?

Nice lot!

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I like the naval cover from the USS Wickes (DD-75). She served in WW1, was laid-up during the 20s naval austerity but was brought back in the 30s as America struggled to balance isolationism in the face of Japanese aggression in the far east. She was on Neutrality Patrol within days of the start of WW2, and was one of the destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940. Tired and worn out after five years on Atlantic convoy duty, she was scapped shortly before the end of the war.

Posting pictures of the backs for the two Registered covers would be appreciated. The airmail cover does appear to be in the appropriate time period but I do not know much about the rates so hopefully someone will chime in on that. I am also with ikeypikey in wanting to see the back of the Danish-sealed cover!

Hi! I don't know why you think that Airmail covers are not sent in the right period... both are from 1926/1927...

I just have made scans of the back sides of all covers + also I have scanned another 4 (both) sides from the same collection, but which are not so interesting.

Thank you for all replies!

Oooooooh, like the Charleston 1934 cover with the tied Christmas seals on the reverse.

Sorry, I have changed the order when I (later) have scanned reverses of the cover, so, the Airmail with 3 stamps, sent to Denmark in Dec, 1926, is actually the cover which have tied Christmas seals on reverese. Indeed, that is a really cool cover.

A cover which has a handstamp "Charleston, SC" on reverse is the one which celebrates the bottle of the Fort Sumter (sent April, 12).

I'm still looking for a Warm Springs, Ga postmark dated 4/12/1945. If anybody has a nice cover with this date, please let me know!

Jack Kelley

I would like to try the SCF auction system... any suggestion which of these covers could be of interests to someone here?

Or any from my another topic:

https://goscf.com/t/49314

Just a clue which could be of major interests (if any)... after that I will proceed to try the SCF auctions.

I also am in the group that finds the cover with the seal interesting. Since it was applied in the receiving country is it a censor label / tape ?

Hello Stallzer!

It is some kind of seal applied by postal service in Denmark...

It looks that the letter has been opened and examined by the Danish Post Office for some reason, so that could be considered as a some kind of censorship...

"Lukket af Postvaesenet" means exactly: "Closed by the Postal Service".

The label is well preserved, so here is how it looks:

The two Milwaukee Wisconsin covers look interesting...

Hi Filipo.

You asked "I don't know why you think that Airmail covers are not sent in the right period... both are from 1926/1927..."

The answer is that by the time these covers were sent, the U.S. airmail stamps of 1923 that were used on these two covers had already been replaced with newer issues. Specifically, these were the two biplanes flying over a map of the US. The 10 cent issue, C7, had been issued to post offices on February 13, 1926. The 15 cent issue, C8, had been issued to post offices on September 18, 1926. And the 20 cent issue, C9, had been issued on January 15, 1927. So, the 10 and 15 cent issues were already available at the time of the sending of both the December 8, 1926 cover, and all three were in the post offices at the time the January 27, 1927 cover was mailed.

In the US, postage stamps retain their validity over time, so one could of course use older stamps to pay for postage in the same way you could use those same very old stamps for ordinary postage today. The point though, is that the propeller stamps of 1923 (C4, C5, C6) that were used on these covers had already been relegated to be relics by the issuance of the new airmail stamps of 1926 and 1927. In this sense, they were used "out of their right period" where they would have had a premium on their use on covers. They are very nice stamps and are very colorful, but they are more in the area of philatelic usage rather than current usage of the day.

I understand the point, Kimo... however, I am pretty sure that these 2 covers are not philatelistic, probably the sender still have the rest of the old stamps and just wanted to use it.

I have placed both covers as a set on the SCF auctions.

Yes, that is possible, though it is also possible that they are philatelic in that either the sender or the recipient or both may have been collectors. Ordinary mail that is not sent by stamp dealers or otherwise overboard with add-ons and obvious philatelic trappings can be philatelic when the sender or recipient or both are stamp collectors and use stamps that were not the ones that were available at the post offices of the day. Many collectors used to obtain additions to their collections from their mail. I am sure most of us who are collectors today try to use interesting and attractive stamps on the mail we send, including older stamps that are out of the regular usage period. There is no way to tell for sure one way or the other about these covers, but since these stamps are used outside of their regular availability the chance that these are philatelic is a possibility.