Show Me Your Airmail Covers, Envelope Designs

Hi Ciletaliph:

Thanks, yes, that is one of my favorite border designs. The owls sitting on the moon do give the design a Halloween look.

I would like to know who designed and printed that border. I suspect it was the addressee, Maurice Petty. He has an entry in the [i]Blue Book of Phlately[i] listing his occupation as "Head Railway Clerk" and appears to have been an avid collector of airmail covers who also wrote for several of the stamp collecting publications of the 1930s.

Below is another cover addressed to him with a similar design, this one of orange and blue anchors and with the same font for "Via Air Mail."

The partial airmail border on this philatelically inspired aerogram consists of red and blue rockets. The design continues along the bottom on the reverse.

The horizontal bar is found in some of the earliest covers. I classify mine with the air mail slogan below the bar, in the bar and above the bar.

A treasure trove on ebay from a prolific designer. I unique and done by a professional. I wonder how many more there are?

Another batch by the same designer.

Those are really outstanding airmail designs. Who is the designer, the addressee, Beuchel?

Where are they for sale? The ebay link only goes to a general Noble Spirit page.

Don

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1434033378...l_noapp=true

The seller did not have any information and they are priced $40 - $70. I want them all.

Zepman:

That seller has some nice items! Wish I had the dollars to scoop them up. Hope you get some of them.

Don

It's difficult to compete with those hand drawn airmail designs above, but moving to my "Variations on Parallelograms" category, here is a hand drawn airmail border on a first flight for an extension of AM 9 to Pembina, ND, with airplane and signpost. The artist continued the parallelograms on the reverse.

Got one like it, I've seen a few.

An ordinary red and blue border to this 1930 cover for the Second National Airport Conference, Buffalo NY.



And I know this one doesn't say 'Airmail' anywhere, but the subject matter and the blue and red colours suggest it.

Another that really should be an airmail cover, but isn't!
Nice booklet pane FDC.

Hi Zepman:

Different addressee on your cover, same surname, but first name and address different. I wonder if one of the addressees did the art work. I have not seen others by that artist.

Don

Hi DavidR:

Nice covers, thanks for adding to this thread.




Back before the U.S. stopped charging airmail rates for domestic airmail service, if a mailer put an airmail stamp on an envelope postal employees considered it airmail even though there were no airmail markings on the envelope.

Don

A 1933 philatelic event cover with double rows of thin red & blue parallelograms.

Don
Thanks for your nice comment. It was quite probable the booklet pane cover had gone via airmail to Scotland, but again it could have been surface mail.
Regards
DavidR