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An airmail border incorporating words for use with the Army and Navy series of stamps issued in 1936/1937, pressed into use here for the dedication of Marquette County Airport, Marquette, MI.  |
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A National Air Mail Week cover with a special border promoting the use of air mail.  |
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National Air Mail Week inspired several different airmail borders on envelopes, here is another posted at Indianapolis:  |
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And another NAMW border that incorporates two key cities, Dayton, OH, the home of the Wright Bros., and Kitty Hawk, NC, site of the Wright's first successful powered flight. The reverse has a brief bio of Earle L. Ovington with his photo.  |
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Yet another NAMW cover on which a listing of the towns in Du Page County, Illinois, form the airmail border.  |
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Above on 12/12/19, Zepman posted an autogiro airmail border cover commemorating the auto giro first-flight between Philadelphia and Camden, NJ. Here is another cover commemorating the same event, but with a variation on the auto giro airmail border.  |
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A 1940 cover commemorating the opening of a seaplane base at Salisbury, MA, with an appropriate airport dedication airmail border.  |
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A first flight cover from Leopoldville, Belgian Congo with an airmail border listing destination countries.  |
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A "Keep 'em Flying" cachet by John Coulthard and a First Day Cover and Via Air Mai border make this one a colorful patriotic first-day cover.  |
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An airmail border probably designed by the Metropolitan Airmail Cover Club for special flights and airport dedications.  |
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Another first-day cover specific airmail border, this one pressed into service for a 1945 domestic first-flight Boston to New York City.  |
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A traditional border of parallelograms with a sub-border of "via airmail" in different languages.  |
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A 1952 personal cover on hotel stationery with small "via air" forming the border. As with most commercial stationery, the border is repeated on the reverse.  |
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Posted 12/17/2019 11:03 am
