Hawaii FDC Service & Souvenir

I found the below items inserted in this unsealed FDOI cover. I thought they were interesting, so I'm just sharing them.

Thanks for sharing. I have a large collection of US airmail FDCs, and like to have as many of them with plate blocks as possible (or panes in the case of booklet stamps, and line pairs in the case of coil issues). I had not noticed those inserts before, so I went and got my album with the Hawaii 80 cent issue and found them in the following Artmaster cacheted cover:

Looking to see if I had a Fleetwood cacheted cover (like yours), I did find one (three, actually) but not with those inserts. And I found this:

Note that the Fleetwood cachet in this one has been tinted. Curiously, the album page at the bottom right has the Artmaster insignia. I've not seen other Armaster album pages like this. Hand tinting like this is often one-off, so this Fleetmaster cover on an Artmaster album page may be one of a kind.

I have a lot of other FDCs of this issue, as I do for most US airmail stamps. In fact, I have FDCs for all 150 US airmail stamps, but just one each, with singles, of C1-C6. After that, I begin to have FDCs with plate blocks (except for the Zepps! -- though I did acquire FDCs of the Zepps with singles last year).

Basil

Very nice,
a cover with a thematic "Connie" on cover
The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner

PS : The surfboard in the Cachet is interesting, it's huge, solid wood?

Rod, you have sharp eyes, making that out to be a "Connie." In 1961, at the tender age of 14, I transited the Pacific aboard a MATS Super Constellation en route to Formosa (as it was still known back in those days). We took the classic transpacific route from Travis AFB via Honolulu. Midway, Wake, and Guam to Clark AFB in the Philipines. On one of those legs (I cannot remember which one) my Dad talked the flight crew into letting me into the cabin up front where I sat in the right right seat for about half an hour. I think the only thing that could have surpassed that flight as a memorable experience is if it had been in one of Pan Am's flying boats a couple of decades earlier.

Basil

Hi Basil, I can spot a Connie from a 100 paces
just love those airliners, you lucky devil.
One of the world's great classic designs, alongside the Coke Bottle at al.

I was in Formosa and the Philippines, in the 1960's
Travelled in a more sedate fashion, on a destroyer.

Well, Hawaii lost the vote in one or the other houses of Congress to become a state in 1953 (again).

I like the souvenir sheet that appears to be a reproduction of a real 1c pane, plus the ad. Along with the planned FDC, it seems that Alhambra had a connection with printers or may have been printers. Does anyone have something else to show printed by them? Did they last until 1960 to do a 50-star flag FDC?

I'm scrolling down for Connie in Hawaii, and all I see is a silly plane. Harrumph. I was expecting




[I'm not actually that old. I collect jazz recordings from 1957 to 1960, give or take, and ancillary items cross the transom from time to time.]