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What is Postal History?There are any number of precise and intimidating definitions of postal history. While these are all technically correct, in many ways they miss the wider aspects of hobby. In a word, postal history is about mail. All over the world almost everyone receives mail. This mail, where it is from, where it is going, how it is paid, how it got to its destination and tribulations it faced in its journey is postal history. It speaks of the time and place it was mailed, the way it traveled and the scars it picked up along the way. Since mail touches almost every person, postal history touches almost every interest. If your interest is in a place, perhaps your home town, the country of your ancestors or your favorite vacation spot, postal history will enhance that interest. If transportation is a passion, the movement of mail encompassed most modes of transport. Mail was the first mover in the development of some air travel and significant in utilizing rail network. Most every significant event of the last 250 years can be traced in the mail. Since every army provides mail for its soldiers, if the military is important to you, then postal history is intertwined. Mail is a window to the past and a mirror of the present. Postal history opens that window wide and focuses the mirror. It tells us about ourselves, our ancestors, our nation and our world. The simple journey of a letter can be the start of a personal journey to wonders of the world.
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New This Week
This week brings nearly 500 new covers to the site. There is
a small range of
U.S. Advertising. There is a nice showing of
Netherlands Indies with useful airmail and censors. That
is followed up by a range of
Indonesia with nice Officially Sealed cover and some
interesting U.N. usages.
Netherlands New Guinea is on offer with airmail,
official and U.N. There is a run of British Commonwealth
with offerings from Basutoland,
Bechualand Protectorate, There were another 350 new covers on the site last week. These is a reasonable selection of Austria with stampless, classics, postal markings and censors among many other areas. There is also a group of Romania and a group of Paraguay. Please click on the country name or category to see the new additions.
A
great selection of more than 5000 covers are new Monday
April 29th. World covers are again widely represented,
including First Day covers from around the world
commemorating the United States Bicentennial. You'll find
covers representing every major European country, as well as
many of the smaller localities not commonly represented.
There are many vivid and unusual MAX cards, and events of
every kind with an emphasis on air and space themes,
including many that are rather uncommon. Among the U.S.
covers are Town Cancels from several states including
Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska,
and New York, just to name a few. You'll even find a few
Stampless covers among this group, but most are late 19th,
early 20th century examples, including a large number of
postcards. We have also uploaded a large group of premium
covers, including some Winged Globes, Early Airmail issues
and a few Beacons. This group also includes many German
issues from the period of the Third Reich, as well as
post-war issues from the German Democratic Republic. As
always, there are so many interesting items that everyone
will certainly find covers encompassing their area of
interest, and we know you will have a good time browsing our
latest offerings. You will receive an email notification
prior to our next upload, which will occur in about a month.
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Browse This SiteCover Notification Service - Receive an e-mail notification every time a new cover that fits your interests is added to this site. You can set up the notifications yourself or have me set them up for you. If your interests are fairly general, for example a single country, you can set them yourself. If your interests are more specific, like a particular issue, you might find it easier to ask me to set them up. If you choose to set up your interests yourself, I'll review them to make sure they will work the way you intend. Worldwide Postal History - Browse here for the country of your interest. Covers begin in the 18th Century and continue to the modern era. The emphasis is on 20th century up to about 1950 for larger countries and to about 1960 for smaller countries, You will find International Airmail, Town Cancels, Auxiliary Markings, Stampless, Registered, Advertising, Censors, Special Delivery and just about anything else you can imagine. U.S. Postal History - Explore thousands of U.S. covers arranged to be browsed by issue. The stock is strongest in foreign destinations after 1920, but you'll find a bit of everything including 19th century. U.S. Postal History By State - Use this section to browse for covers based upon the place where they were used. Explore local postal history in hundreds of covers for each state, a bibliography of literature available for each state, and market analysis. United States Post Offices - This is a reference that lists the name and dates of operation of every post office in the U.S. The list is the best reference ever published in one place. A far better representation of both Alabama and Georgia are now online. Despite constant additions and corrections, it is still a work in progress. Military Postal History - Browse here for war covers I have a strong stock of military covers of all types, with an emphasis on U.S. World War II material. Look for U.S. A.P.O. covers, U.S. Ship covers, Worldwide Civil Censors, U.S. Naval Shore Stations, Field Posts from most parts of the world and Prisoner of War and Internee mail. . You're welcome to use on-line copy of my book A Price Guide to U.S. A.P.O. Covers of the Second World War. Airmail Postal History Browse for first flights, catapults, zeppelins, crash covers, trans pacific and all range of international airmail. Save Your Cart- You may now save your shopping cart for up to 90 days. Simply click on Save Cart on the menu bar at the left or bottom link bar and log into your account. Come back any time within the next three months to review and purchase your selections by clicking Retrieve Cart. to check out the cart. Do please understand that saving items does not remove them from inventory or place them on hold for you. |
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