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Event covers have been created for all manner of events:
Philatelic ... club meetings, exhibitions, the works
Hobbies ... covers issued by our brethren coin collectors, auto/rail modelers, et al
Postal ... branch post office openings, closings, first days
Terrestrial ... railway/highway first runs, last runs, re-runs
Naval ... launchings, deployments, homecomings, circumnavigations, ports-of-call, polar (anything)
Aviation ... first flights, airfield openings, races, competitions, exhibitions
Space ... (too many micro-categories to count, let alone list)
Olympics ... so many stamps that there must be a zillion covers
Jamborees ... surely the merit badge means that there are plenty of jamboree event covers?
Each of these categories has its own websites, specialty societies, literature, checklists, forum threads.
But what about the singularities?
What about events that folks did not even know were events?
For example: institution anniversaries, civil war re-enactments, demolitions ... do I know?
I'll start with (keywords) cover events Backgammon pmk 19800802 PH Baguio City
Q/ Do you have any Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who is well aware that this is a shameless lemons-into-lemonade post, but what else could I do with that cover?)
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Here's one....?
I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show
quite a few in your 'category'!!
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This is a great thread topic. I don't have any but I bet there are some real far out commemorative covers.
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ikeyPikey - This cover is for you!
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Forget the on-topic cover, Randy, you've got a postmark from Lucerne Mines, 2010 population 937 !
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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10:49:16am
"I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show quite a few in your 'category'!!"
Challenge accepted!
These are all currently available covers in the "US Events - post-1950" category on BuckaCover. All these are priced at just 60c each.
https://www.buckacover.com/covers/search.php?code=useventpost50
Plus 1162 more priced from 60c to $1.50
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What did Jimmy Durante used to say "i got a million of em."
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Heres one for the corn dog fans(i never ate one) from an old Stampoffers buddy!
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Wait a sec....are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans. While definitely cool, do the measure up to the OP focus of "event cover"?
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"... are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans ..."
Well, there's another fine slippery slope you've gotten me on to.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Ikey i knew i had this one somewhere and i am pretty sure it qualifies...what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !
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Now THAT hits the spot !!!
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Oklahoma and Italians culture?
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Tarpon Springs FL hosts an annual Greek Festival ... do I know how they got there?
Okay, probably one-by-one.
... St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tarpon Springs has organized for the past 113 years.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (whose postcard of that festival is supposed to be in his Minor Festivals & Parades sub-pile but ...)
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"what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !
Oklahoma and Italians culture?"
Actually, Oklahoma has a substantial population of people of Italian heritage. They are mostly located in Pittsburg, Latimer, and Coal counties where coal was mined in the late 19th century. McAlester is the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
See this link: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=IT002
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I did not know about the coal mines in Oklahoma...i know my mothers people the Tyroleans did not gather in large cities like the Southern Italians. They could always find work in places like Michigan,Colorado, Arizona..anything to do with tunneling or mining.
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Phil - Same thing in Iowa, which had coal mining from about 1870 to 1940. The Italians migrated to Iowa by the thousands to work the coal mines in central and south central Iowa. The mines are long gone now, but today, we have a large Italian Heritage Festival annually in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. They block the street off and the food vendors are fabulous. I attended it a couple years ago with my daughter, and we watched a chef with a thick Italian accent make pasta with red sauce from scratch in a cooking demo. Free steaming bowls were given out afterward, it was so good!
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"... (Apologies to ikeyP for taking your thread way off track into the coal mines) ..."
Post a cover of a mine closing, mine disaster anniversary, whatever, and we'll be good, mate.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (the last guy on earth to object to a thread getting interesting)
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Here's an event! My first Granddaughter's birth!
And fixing to do another dozen cards... my daughter is due with twins this month!
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Event covers have been created for all manner of events:
Philatelic ... club meetings, exhibitions, the works
Hobbies ... covers issued by our brethren coin collectors, auto/rail modelers, et al
Postal ... branch post office openings, closings, first days
Terrestrial ... railway/highway first runs, last runs, re-runs
Naval ... launchings, deployments, homecomings, circumnavigations, ports-of-call, polar (anything)
Aviation ... first flights, airfield openings, races, competitions, exhibitions
Space ... (too many micro-categories to count, let alone list)
Olympics ... so many stamps that there must be a zillion covers
Jamborees ... surely the merit badge means that there are plenty of jamboree event covers?
Each of these categories has its own websites, specialty societies, literature, checklists, forum threads.
But what about the singularities?
What about events that folks did not even know were events?
For example: institution anniversaries, civil war re-enactments, demolitions ... do I know?
I'll start with (keywords) cover events Backgammon pmk 19800802 PH Baguio City
Q/ Do you have any Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who is well aware that this is a shameless lemons-into-lemonade post, but what else could I do with that cover?)
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Here's one....?
I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show
quite a few in your 'category'!!
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This is a great thread topic. I don't have any but I bet there are some real far out commemorative covers.
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ikeyPikey - This cover is for you!
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Forget the on-topic cover, Randy, you've got a postmark from Lucerne Mines, 2010 population 937 !
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events
"I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show quite a few in your 'category'!!"
Challenge accepted!
These are all currently available covers in the "US Events - post-1950" category on BuckaCover. All these are priced at just 60c each.
https://www.buckacover.com/covers/search.php?code=useventpost50
Plus 1162 more priced from 60c to $1.50
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events
What did Jimmy Durante used to say "i got a million of em."
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Heres one for the corn dog fans(i never ate one) from an old Stampoffers buddy!
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03:44:30pm
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Wait a sec....are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans. While definitely cool, do the measure up to the OP focus of "event cover"?
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events
"... are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans ..."
Well, there's another fine slippery slope you've gotten me on to.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events
Ikey i knew i had this one somewhere and i am pretty sure it qualifies...what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !
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Now THAT hits the spot !!!
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Oklahoma and Italians culture?
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Tarpon Springs FL hosts an annual Greek Festival ... do I know how they got there?
Okay, probably one-by-one.
... St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tarpon Springs has organized for the past 113 years.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (whose postcard of that festival is supposed to be in his Minor Festivals & Parades sub-pile but ...)
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events
"what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !
Oklahoma and Italians culture?"
Actually, Oklahoma has a substantial population of people of Italian heritage. They are mostly located in Pittsburg, Latimer, and Coal counties where coal was mined in the late 19th century. McAlester is the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
See this link: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=IT002
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events
I did not know about the coal mines in Oklahoma...i know my mothers people the Tyroleans did not gather in large cities like the Southern Italians. They could always find work in places like Michigan,Colorado, Arizona..anything to do with tunneling or mining.
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Phil - Same thing in Iowa, which had coal mining from about 1870 to 1940. The Italians migrated to Iowa by the thousands to work the coal mines in central and south central Iowa. The mines are long gone now, but today, we have a large Italian Heritage Festival annually in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. They block the street off and the food vendors are fabulous. I attended it a couple years ago with my daughter, and we watched a chef with a thick Italian accent make pasta with red sauce from scratch in a cooking demo. Free steaming bowls were given out afterward, it was so good!
Linus
(Apologies to ikeyP for taking your thread way off track into the coal mines)
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"... (Apologies to ikeyP for taking your thread way off track into the coal mines) ..."
Post a cover of a mine closing, mine disaster anniversary, whatever, and we'll be good, mate.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (the last guy on earth to object to a thread getting interesting)
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Here's an event! My first Granddaughter's birth!
And fixing to do another dozen cards... my daughter is due with twins this month!
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