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A U.S. Catalogue.

If you ever come across a Cover from the 1700s you are researching. If you want to enter your old covers in a show you need all the right information. The Important  question, when it left and when it arrived. These were missing ship records I found nobody new existed. They kept all the records of ships  and who was on them here is an example.

Hand Cancels that were Purchased and used by post offices.

The New Haven Beehive and the Passion of Arthur Warmsley.

    The Mask Likely over inking is the second earliest dated UX8         1847, 10¢ black (Scott 2),[/b][/font][/color][/b] three margins, just into frameline at top, tied on small piece by red "10" in double rim cancel found on cross-border covers, Fine and rarely seen with this cancel     UX8 Earliest date used, Just arrived in the mail

Found this stamps in a pile that I am sorting.  The pictures show how different from the 'normal' version.  It has a waxy look and the ink is very visible in the back of the stamps.

Any information is welcomed.  
Fake or variation?

SL SongPa1 Seokchon-dong. Seol Korea Air letters Korea Post Aug 14 2017 100 paid To Kingston Canada no arrival cancel

Here's an interesting feldpost card from 1916 with censor marks from Frankfurt am Main.

   

It appears to be addressed to:

Fräulein
Kätha Krieg
Frankf. a/M. Preungesheim
Kreuz-Stras. 11

It was sent by a solider named Christian Weil. As far as I can tell, he wrote:

Aus dem Felde d. 6.3.16
Werter Fräulein Krieg!
Ihre Karte mit
besten Dank erhalten.
Mir geht es zur Zeit noch gut,
was ich auch bei Ihnen hoffe.
Die besten Grüße sendet
Christian Weil

That is,

From the field, March 6, 1916
Dear Miss Krieg,
I received your card with many thanks.
I am still doing well at the moment,
and I hope the same is true for you.
Best regards,
Christian Weil

Based on the feldpost CDS, the card was mailed at the FPO for the 21st Reserve Division. In March 1916 this division occupied the Massiges Sector a location in the Champagne-Marne region of France. The purple S.B. hand-stamp [soldatenbrief] suggests that he Christian was a member of the division's medical company (e.g. aid posts, stretcher parties, triage / evacuations).

Cancel
Double-ring Feldpost CDS
K.D.Feldpostexped./ der /21 Reserve Div.
-7.3.16. 4-5N

Hand-stamp, purple ink
S.B. / RES.SAN.Kp. [Reserve-Sanitäts-Kompanie]

Over and to the right of the CDS are two red hand-stamps. The first, is a largely obscured triangular hand-stamp with a sunburst (partially visible) and an eagle (only visible in theory) It would appear to be a control cachet of a Postüberwachungsstelle [military censorship office]. Given the destination of the car, it was probably applied at the military censor office in Frankfurt am Main before the card was given to the civil mail system for delivery. The other stamp, with the  IIA (with two horizontal lines under the 'A') is probably the section or desk code. 

The feldpost card is a repurposed picture post card. The hand-tinted image on the other side shows a young woman reading a letter. The text reads:

Ein deutscher Gruß / A German Greeting
In der Heimat, in der Heimat, Giebt’s ein Wiedersehn  / In the homeland, in the homeland, there’ll be a reunion, we’ll meet again]

The second line comes from the refrain of a popular soldiers' song.

The diamond shaped logo or monogram on the lower left reads PFB. This is the mark of the postcard publishing firm of Paul Finkenrath, Berlin. On the lower right is the number 358616, the serial number of the card.

   

Cheers, Hugh

    (Pull out for Postal Inspection).I could be wrong but ill check this cover out. When they applied for a postal contract they would send in there new ideas/Experimental covers like this one. The idea was to let postal inspectors lift the flap on the cover to inspect what was inside it. These are vary rare, they were not used long. Maybe a week up to only one month. Ill have the experts look at it but I remember them talking about it a few years ago. These envelops/covers had no patents in place unless they got the contract to supply them. This one was never accepted if I remember correct, When they pulled the flap out it ripped and was hard to put back in place. It also did not reveal all the contents in the cover. Notice the one back flap has all the glue showing but on the other there is only a drop on glue under the top flap to hold the entire end of the cover to gather. It was rejected. Only a few used copies exist there are more not used copies then used copies. Feel free to add any comments on this subject. Thank you

The Auxiliary Markings Club (AMC) is one of the philatelic groups I joined earlier this year. This week’s Tuesday meeting had some interesting covers, although the speaker ran through a lot of slides quite quickly. Luckily there is a YouTube, and for the first time in my life, I am the first viewer of a YouTube video. There should be a prize!

Here is a link to the video:https://youtu.be/1p5a8gq3V4U?si=2gfwLlv2xFFgs7-8

The host is Gregg Redner, who is appearing in so many places lately I got confused when my Google calendar gave me a reminder linking to his email invite for Wednesday’s meeting of a completely different group. I thought I had put the AMC meeting in my calendar twice. As a result, I missed the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada meeting. I hope I can find a video!