Show Me Your Airmail Covers, Envelope Designs

This recent acquisition for my Words & Phrases airmail border collection is actually a folded letter sheet with the border printed on front and back. The printer is identified on the inside of the sheet as The Meter Digest of Waukegan, IL.

Don

Another recent acquisition for my Airmail Borders collection, this one destined for the Arrows group. Aside from its very original border design, the cover has a couple of other desirable collecting points. It is a National Airmail Week cover posted on May 19th, national pick-up day, and it features a cachet by my favorite cachet artist, John Coulthard. Plus, there is an enclosure written by the sender to the addressee explaining the cover's significance.

Don

A non-philatelic cover on commercially manufactured airmail stationery with a distinctive border that will fit into my Words & Phrases category. The border continues on the reverse and is unusual enough to show.

The cover is overpaid, however. It is dated January 1946 and the domestic airmail rate then was still 8 cents per ounce. I don't know why the sender added the Martha Washington 1 1/2 cents.

Don Sellos

A National Air Mail Week cover out of the "Shapes" category of my Airmail Borders collection. Its border consists of small red and blue squares divided diagonally. It is a little unusual in that the printer of this piece of airmail stationery is identified on the front and it is from Canada.

Don Sellos

Here is an example of one that I believe has not been posted yet. If it has, my apologies.

Here is another I don't believe has been posted.

Another in the same theme.

Continuing the theme.

One final cover with this theme. No markings on the back of cover.

Why would this airmail cover have an RPO cancellation?

Nice batch of covers, gslaten! Great cancel from USS Mindanao.

Don

Another on the recent theme of aviation borders.

A favorite of mine is the use of Zeppelins in borders.

The first-day of issue cancellation for the Lindbergh 10c airmail commem is what gives philatelic value to this cover, I bought it, however, for the unusual and different airmail service designator in the lower left corner and I am placing it in my One-of-a-Kind Airmail Borders collection.

As for the first-day status, according to the Scott U.S. Specialized Catalog, Detroit was one of three first-day cities. St. Louis, Missouri, and Little Falls Minnesota, were the other two.

Don