Earwaves, thats a good question..someone here must have a catalog from the strike...i have these labels from Exeter..now i am wondering whether they are legit.
A couple more...
and lastly ...
Out of dozens of 1971 Strike Mail covers in my "Sold database", this is the only one I can be absolutely sure is not philatelic in nature (a few others are "maybe", but could just be addressed to collectors).
Roy
Thanks for your thoughts, guys.
At the most recent meeting of the Wisconsin Postal History Society, a member had an improvement on the phrase "philatelically created." He calls such material "philatelically contrived."
In the case of First Day and First Flight covers, though, no one is trying to fool anyone and they at least go through the mail.
Which triggers another question...
Do First-Day cancellations always have to be requested, or if some non-collector happens to mail a letter on that day at the FDOI post office, will it get an FD lines postmark?
Interesting that Roy's courier mail to Toronto went by way of Paris, with a UK/Canada flag sticker and a French postage stamp affixed. Quite a cover!
"Interesting that Roy's courier mail to Toronto went by way of Paris, with a UK/Canada flag sticker and a French postage stamp affixed."
"Do First-Day cancellations always have to be requested, or if some non-collector happens to mail a letter on that day at the FDOI post office, will it get an FD lines postmark?"
Unrelated image for Charlie in Messages:
Wikipedia -- sadly, my only source so far -- says that the 1971 British postal workers' strike gave business to many private couriers.
"Some were genuine commercial services that provided local, national and international deliveries, but many were set up by stamp collectors and stamp dealers to provide philatelic material for collectors." Because it has no addressee, I assume that my cover below was probably the latter.
But does anyone know if the City of London Delivery Service was a legitimate company that had real customers?
re: 1971 Strike Cover
Earwaves, thats a good question..someone here must have a catalog from the strike...i have these labels from Exeter..now i am wondering whether they are legit.
re: 1971 Strike Cover
A couple more...
re: 1971 Strike Cover
and lastly ...
re: 1971 Strike Cover
Out of dozens of 1971 Strike Mail covers in my "Sold database", this is the only one I can be absolutely sure is not philatelic in nature (a few others are "maybe", but could just be addressed to collectors).
Roy
re: 1971 Strike Cover
Thanks for your thoughts, guys.
At the most recent meeting of the Wisconsin Postal History Society, a member had an improvement on the phrase "philatelically created." He calls such material "philatelically contrived."
In the case of First Day and First Flight covers, though, no one is trying to fool anyone and they at least go through the mail.
Which triggers another question...
Do First-Day cancellations always have to be requested, or if some non-collector happens to mail a letter on that day at the FDOI post office, will it get an FD lines postmark?
re: 1971 Strike Cover
Interesting that Roy's courier mail to Toronto went by way of Paris, with a UK/Canada flag sticker and a French postage stamp affixed. Quite a cover!
re: 1971 Strike Cover
"Interesting that Roy's courier mail to Toronto went by way of Paris, with a UK/Canada flag sticker and a French postage stamp affixed."
re: 1971 Strike Cover
"Do First-Day cancellations always have to be requested, or if some non-collector happens to mail a letter on that day at the FDOI post office, will it get an FD lines postmark?"
re: 1971 Strike Cover
Unrelated image for Charlie in Messages: