Show Us Your Airmail Covers World Edition

Battlestamps:

That street sign airmail designator is, indeed, different and a clever usage. I have not seen one like it before.

Below is a commercial cover with a familiar design of airplanes flying along the edges of the envelope out of Kingston, Jamaica. The design continues on the reverse.

Don

These two covers continue the theme of aircraft flying around the border of the envelope. In this instance the alternating red and blue aircraft face in different directions. They are different in that the French cover was posted in 1954, prior to jet airline service while the Thai cover was posted in 1994 and the border depicts jet airliners. The aircraft images continue on the reverse of both envelopes.

Don

Dutch pre war exemple.




1933 Mermoz flight Brasil Senegal.

I believe only crewmembers carried covers. Mr Manuel, the person mentioned in the adres, was the Radio Operator.

A rare cover, which I did not know at the time. I found 6 of these, 25 years ago in an airmail cover collection that I bought at auction.

November 18, 1984 airmail cover from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico to Research Triangle Park, NC, U.S.A. The national colors replace the usual red and blue on the border.

Not exactly a cover, but I could not refrain from adding this Taiwan originated aerogram with paper airplanes flying around the border to my collection.

Don

Here's a questionable air mail cover from Iraq -

That's hilarious! But what's it supposed to mean? "Maybe by air mail, maybe not"?

Re: Battlestamps post, perhaps an Arabic language symbol for airmail.

Then there is this one with question marks. This cover explained here: https://goscf.com/t/65686&SearchTer...stery,flight

Don

I initially thought the border on this Singapore cover was red and blue hash marks, but closer examination identified them as images of the Condorde supersonic airliner (compare with etiquette in upper left corner).

The design continues on the reverse of the cover.

The latest.

A variation on the lightning bolt theme from Cremona, Italy.

A 1958 commercial cover to Somalia from the Algiers office of Monsavon-L'Oreal.

A non-philatelic cover from Kuwait. Familiar theme of aircraft flying around the border, different colors.

More airplanes around the borders out of the Mid-East, Bahrain in this instance>