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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Your treasures

 

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Bobstamp
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17 Aug 2018
11:23:35pm
How about a thread about your favourite stamps and covers?

Based on my own experience, it's no easy task to decide stamps or covers are my favourites, which means that all the others aren't. Still, let's give it a try. Here's my first offering, a cover in 1941 from Chinatown in my current home town, Vancouver, to the home town of much of my youth and teenage years, Silver City, New Mexico:

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There's much of personal interest and history in this cover. While I didn't know Loy Kee, and in fact never set foot in Chinatown until the early 1970s, I was familiar with Barkers Cafe, which was just a few doors from the offices of my dad's newspaper, the Silver City Enterprise. As a result of having this cover in my collection, purchased on eBay after a friend alerted me to its existence, I have learned a great deal of history, especially about the Chinese diaspora of the late 19th and early 20th Century.

Barker's Cafe was owned and operated by three Chinese men who hoped to save enough money to bring their families from China to Silver City. They were among a very small Chinese community in Silver City.

• The Lime family, whose name is pronounced Lim, owned the Lime Cafe; Mrs. Lime made banana pie to die for.

• The Bow brothers owned a small grocery store where I used to buy thick slices of bologna for my lunch.

• The Y. Toy family operated a small grocery and butcher shop.

• Gau Choon Louie owned yet another grocery store, Hing Lee. I learned from one of his nieces that his store was supposed to be called “Heung Lay,” translated as “Make Profit,” but it ended up being called “Hing Lee,” which was easier to write and pronounce in English. "Hing Lee" appears on his gravestone although Chinese characters provide his actual name.

In researching the Barkers Cafe cover, I came across a tragic incident that happened just four years before my family moved to the Silver City area from New York State. On Sunday, February 28, 1945, two anglo men went into Barkers Cafe and severely beat one of the owners, Yat Lim, locally known as Charlie Mah. Lim died of his injuries the next day. His killers were charged with his murder, but were acquitted.

My web page, Mail to Silver City from Vancouver’s Chinatown leads to a story of murder, provides more information about Lim's murder, the history of Vancouver's Chinatown, and philatelic information about the cover.

Bob Ingraham
Vancouver


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Tom in Exton, PA

18 Aug 2018
08:25:57am
re: Your treasures

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Here's a cover chock full of family history. I found it when I was going through some of my parent's old paper. It was in a box of ancient receipts, and amazing how it survived all these years. Note that my parents rarely threw away anything.

This no doubt was a new baby congratulations card sent by my grandparents to my mother on the occasion of the birth of my sister. It was mailed November 3, 1960. My sister was born on November 1. My father was an army officer so my mother was at the Fort Riley, Kansas army hospital. The card arrived on November 5, 1960, only two days which wasn't bad for airmail in those days. the hospital forwarded it to our home on that Saturday. The local post office accessed a double rate charge on November 7. I'm not sure if that was for an oversize card, or for the forwarding. It probably arrived at our home on November 7 or 8.

Of interest to me, was that I never knew the address we lived at in Kansas. I was only two at the time. This allowed me to do a Google Street View walk around. My mother used to tell stories about how I almost got killed when I was out in the driveway in my kiddie pool and the neighbor's kid drove quickly into the driveway and hit the pool. I was able to see that both houses shared a driveway, the scene of the crime!

Anyway, this would be a dollar cover to most only of interest because of the postage due usage, maybe even undesirable since it's an oversized cover. But to me it's priceless and documentation of our family history!

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18 Aug 2018
09:49:44pm
re: Your treasures

Mine is in the only section of my collection I don't share online, a scant 6 pages. On one page is a cover addressed to my grandfather's grandfather, a coal mine owner and son of a Civil War soldier. It's mounted below a genealogy diagram. Postmarked 1913 on a date that would be my sister's birthday 50 years later, I wish the letter were still enclosed, but I do have a written testimonial to my great-great-grandfather from the man who sent the letter, as they were business partners.

The cover itself is nothing special. Just a common U411 2c stamped envelope.

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20 Aug 2018
06:45:42am
re: Your treasures

Denmark, Facit 60v2 (broken frame). I'm told by some Danish experts they've never even seen one for sale, ever.

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20 Aug 2018
12:59:39pm
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This is my favourite treasure. This is the one cent Admiral major re-entry, Scott / Unitrade # 104vii.

Another thing about it is that I didn't pay a cent for it because it is addressed to my grandfather on my father's side. Once they knew I was serious about the hobby they took all the covers & card out of an old cedar chest, which is also now in our house.

Chimo

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20 Aug 2018
05:46:59pm
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Nice clear postmarks from 1886 Baltimore Md and Washington DC, and backstop Portsmouth N.H.


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20 Aug 2018
10:17:26pm
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That is an beautiful forwarded cover, and an not usually seen paper color of blue for that stamped envelope.

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Bobstamp

17 Aug 2018
11:23:35pm

How about a thread about your favourite stamps and covers?

Based on my own experience, it's no easy task to decide stamps or covers are my favourites, which means that all the others aren't. Still, let's give it a try. Here's my first offering, a cover in 1941 from Chinatown in my current home town, Vancouver, to the home town of much of my youth and teenage years, Silver City, New Mexico:

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There's much of personal interest and history in this cover. While I didn't know Loy Kee, and in fact never set foot in Chinatown until the early 1970s, I was familiar with Barkers Cafe, which was just a few doors from the offices of my dad's newspaper, the Silver City Enterprise. As a result of having this cover in my collection, purchased on eBay after a friend alerted me to its existence, I have learned a great deal of history, especially about the Chinese diaspora of the late 19th and early 20th Century.

Barker's Cafe was owned and operated by three Chinese men who hoped to save enough money to bring their families from China to Silver City. They were among a very small Chinese community in Silver City.

• The Lime family, whose name is pronounced Lim, owned the Lime Cafe; Mrs. Lime made banana pie to die for.

• The Bow brothers owned a small grocery store where I used to buy thick slices of bologna for my lunch.

• The Y. Toy family operated a small grocery and butcher shop.

• Gau Choon Louie owned yet another grocery store, Hing Lee. I learned from one of his nieces that his store was supposed to be called “Heung Lay,” translated as “Make Profit,” but it ended up being called “Hing Lee,” which was easier to write and pronounce in English. "Hing Lee" appears on his gravestone although Chinese characters provide his actual name.

In researching the Barkers Cafe cover, I came across a tragic incident that happened just four years before my family moved to the Silver City area from New York State. On Sunday, February 28, 1945, two anglo men went into Barkers Cafe and severely beat one of the owners, Yat Lim, locally known as Charlie Mah. Lim died of his injuries the next day. His killers were charged with his murder, but were acquitted.

My web page, Mail to Silver City from Vancouver’s Chinatown leads to a story of murder, provides more information about Lim's murder, the history of Vancouver's Chinatown, and philatelic information about the cover.

Bob Ingraham
Vancouver


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Tom in Exton, PA
18 Aug 2018
08:25:57am

re: Your treasures

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Here's a cover chock full of family history. I found it when I was going through some of my parent's old paper. It was in a box of ancient receipts, and amazing how it survived all these years. Note that my parents rarely threw away anything.

This no doubt was a new baby congratulations card sent by my grandparents to my mother on the occasion of the birth of my sister. It was mailed November 3, 1960. My sister was born on November 1. My father was an army officer so my mother was at the Fort Riley, Kansas army hospital. The card arrived on November 5, 1960, only two days which wasn't bad for airmail in those days. the hospital forwarded it to our home on that Saturday. The local post office accessed a double rate charge on November 7. I'm not sure if that was for an oversize card, or for the forwarding. It probably arrived at our home on November 7 or 8.

Of interest to me, was that I never knew the address we lived at in Kansas. I was only two at the time. This allowed me to do a Google Street View walk around. My mother used to tell stories about how I almost got killed when I was out in the driveway in my kiddie pool and the neighbor's kid drove quickly into the driveway and hit the pool. I was able to see that both houses shared a driveway, the scene of the crime!

Anyway, this would be a dollar cover to most only of interest because of the postage due usage, maybe even undesirable since it's an oversized cover. But to me it's priceless and documentation of our family history!

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APS #220693 ATA#57179
18 Aug 2018
09:49:44pm

re: Your treasures

Mine is in the only section of my collection I don't share online, a scant 6 pages. On one page is a cover addressed to my grandfather's grandfather, a coal mine owner and son of a Civil War soldier. It's mounted below a genealogy diagram. Postmarked 1913 on a date that would be my sister's birthday 50 years later, I wish the letter were still enclosed, but I do have a written testimonial to my great-great-grandfather from the man who sent the letter, as they were business partners.

The cover itself is nothing special. Just a common U411 2c stamped envelope.

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Conquering the world one stamp at a time
20 Aug 2018
06:45:42am

re: Your treasures

Denmark, Facit 60v2 (broken frame). I'm told by some Danish experts they've never even seen one for sale, ever.

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Bujutsu

20 Aug 2018
12:59:39pm

re: Your treasures

This is my favourite treasure. This is the one cent Admiral major re-entry, Scott / Unitrade # 104vii.

Another thing about it is that I didn't pay a cent for it because it is addressed to my grandfather on my father's side. Once they knew I was serious about the hobby they took all the covers & card out of an old cedar chest, which is also now in our house.

Chimo

Bujutsu

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bobgggg

Past President Cortlandt Stamp Club

20 Aug 2018
05:46:59pm

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Nice clear postmarks from 1886 Baltimore Md and Washington DC, and backstop Portsmouth N.H.


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20 Aug 2018
10:17:26pm

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That is an beautiful forwarded cover, and an not usually seen paper color of blue for that stamped envelope.

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