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Posted 07/06/2018   11:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add truefreight to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello, I am new and am just curious if any of these have value....

























































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Posted 07/07/2018   12:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rdavid to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, some more than others. If there is stamp club near you, go to a meeting and ask around for someone who can help you further. Some of these covers are quite nice.You can find the stamps and maybe something about the covers in US Specialized Scott catalog. See your local library?
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Posted 07/07/2018   01:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Laurie 02 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They are a great collection of covers
And even a few I would like!
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Posted 07/07/2018   08:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add truefreight to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you David and Lawrence!
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Posted 07/08/2018   2:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kimo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Value is relative term. And with covers there are many factors that go into determining value. Are you asking what someone might pay you for them? If so then there are very different numbers depending on whether the buyer is a private party who very much wants one or more of these, or if you are going to sell them in an auction such as ebay (a lower number) or if you are going to sell to a dealer (most dealers would not pay very little or pass on your offer). The majority of these seem to be in the 10 cents to 25 cents range that you find in dealer's "junk boxes" but there are a few that an eager collector might pay from a couple of dollars to more. From what I can see of the flight based ones, the most "valuable" one would have been the 1931 Charlevoix emergency airmail - the first one in your posting but unfortunately it is addressed to A.C. Roe who has a checkered past of creating flight covers "after the fact" i.e. forgeries. Some of his covers are fine, some are forgeries and it is next to impossible to tell the difference. As such it would have been something that some people might have paid as much as $20 for it, but with the Roe address my guess is that you might be lucky to get $10 for it. The other flight related covers are in the 25 cents to $5 range with the 1926 ones being at the higher end in the $3 to $5 range. If someone offers you more then my suggestion is to jump on the offer as these sell everyday on ebay for these prices when they sell at all.
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Posted 07/09/2018   3:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kimo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
One other airmail one that could have some value above a couple of bucks is the 1930 National Air Races covers with the autographs. Unfortunately I do not recognize any of the autographs as being famous air racers during that meet so unless you can determine whose autographs those are and whether they actually won any of the races that year then it is not worth more than a few dollars. For example, the winner of the Thompson Trophy that year was Speed Holman, second place was Jim Haizlip, third was Ben Howard and fourth was Paul Adams. Women racers are even more valuable. The first through third in the Women's Pacific Derby were Gladys O'Donnell, Mildred Morgan and Jean La Rene. The Women's Dixie Derby first through third were Phoebe Omlie, Martie Bowman and Laura Ingalls. And the most valuable, going for hundreds, are covers that were actually flown by these pilots in the races - those tend to be hand inscribed by the pilots as having been carried by them. Normally they would only carry a couple of covers like that for personal friends and family, if they even carried any at all.
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