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Update...the first 150 envelopes were Georgia ...the next batch had perhaps 3 Alabama and the rest were Tennessee....some interesting town names !
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10:01:13am
Nothing to do with Georgia, but I bet there were MANY Georgia post offices. I only collect one particular county in Nova Scotia and there are 47. The first half were easy to find, with some help from an SOR member, the rest are much harder! I've been bogged down at 25 for a few months now. So before you say "you want all the Georgia post offices", first see if there is a list, and then don't expect it to be easy. Of course it would be no challenge, or fun, if it was easy!! At least there are books on Canadian post offices, do books exist on US ones?
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Joe, its fun to see how many different towns(postoffices) there are in Georgia and Tennessee....i had to look at a return address to spell Tennessee. If anyone is looking for post office postmarks from the two states i just may be able to help.
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Joe,
There are a number of books written by a guy with last name Helbock, who wrote about all the post offices in the US, including the Rarity Factor of covers from each post office. I have used the information from Helbock's book about post offices in the mid-west in my Minnesota Cancels site https://mncancels.org.
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I am interested. I have always been interested in collecting covers from Georgia (my home state), but have never gotten very far with it. This would be a great way to jump start my collection.
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Kristin drinks the cool aid....
Actually, i think this kind of collecting is so, so, so cool. for the cost of postage, you get a collection.
And I get to see Phil divest himself of something..... there are a number of PhilPhirsts this week, both of which have shown themselves here.
Kristin, you go, girl (i never know how people read me, so, in case you're not sure, I'm cheering you one with great enthusiasm)
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This is cool. There are many people who collect a county, a state or a region. Since I've been selling on eBay I've met a lot of these folks and I actually think about individual people as I list covers! And often that person does buy the cover.
Personally, I collect New Jersey. I started this when I was 14. My uncle worked for a utility company and would bring me large boxes of envelopes from electric bill remittances. I soon got into seeing how many cancels I could collect. I had a paperback zip code directory I used to keep track. Then I started writing to postmasters for postmarks. When I did lose interest in stamps, I kept this shoebox accessible and would add covers from my mail over the years. As such, the collection has covers from our wedding response cards and many other family and friend covers.
Once I got back to collecting hot and heavy, I started buying covers with a vengeance! I put the collection on Ultra Pro two pocket pages, and created my own spreadsheet from several sources, of both past and present post offices.
The above is a sample page from my collection.
And the bottom of my spread sheet! The numbers keep tally automatically
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10:57:12am
You have to really look at the covers very carefully. Sometimes the cover is postmarked at the destination as well as where it was sent and sometimes you can get your postmark that way. It is a fun thing to collect but in most cases completion will be difficult because there are always a few post offices that were only open for a short period of time. There are books listing both early Canadian and Nova Scotian post offices and I assume there are ones for US areas as well.
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There will be post offices open a short time, for a small population town, that no cancels survive.
I know I will never complete my NJ collection for that reason.
A lot of my cancels are on postcards or greeting card odd size envelopes because these are more likely to be saved than routine business correspondence. One reason I keep my collection in two pocket pages.
Then again, stuff happens. There was one NJ Rural Station that was open for 5 years and I figured I’d never get one and questioned whether it existed. I see it on eBay and grab it. In communication with the seller he tells me he has another, maybe more. Just to be friendly he sends me two! Both on greeting card envelopes between the same parties.
So there is stuff out there waiting to be discovered!
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I have saved searches on E-Bay for all the ones I am missing. I know they exist because an SOR member (Cherryl) has a complete collection except for two that she just found out about. Some will be difficult to find but they all exist, except possibly for two. I haven't added to my collection for a while though. Still stuck at about half - 25/47!!!
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Forgive if I stray a little bit here.I remember I used to get the girls in the office to keep all the office mail for me got a couple cancelled as least a week before they were issued !!both came from a car dealer in Alice Springs.I lost count the number of chequesI found in the envelopes some were quite large .I also managed to get complete used sets on cover commercial mail of the 2000 & 2004 Australian Olympics.
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I may be biting off a bit more than i can chew on this one but..i am a stamp collector i know there are people who collect just about anything closely related to philately. I have probably a couple of hundred envelopes or most of an envelope addressed to Registrar Louisiana State University from addresses in Georgia in the 1960s and 1970s. I did not pay for them and do not want to sell them..i do not want to recycle them but will if no interest. If someone wanted one or three or four i would say send me a stamp for postage..if someone wanted the whole lot we would have to get a priority box from the post office. Lets see if there is any discussion...i did not know there was a Alamo, Georgia,
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Update...the first 150 envelopes were Georgia ...the next batch had perhaps 3 Alabama and the rest were Tennessee....some interesting town names !
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17 Jul 2022
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re: Georgia town postmarks
Nothing to do with Georgia, but I bet there were MANY Georgia post offices. I only collect one particular county in Nova Scotia and there are 47. The first half were easy to find, with some help from an SOR member, the rest are much harder! I've been bogged down at 25 for a few months now. So before you say "you want all the Georgia post offices", first see if there is a list, and then don't expect it to be easy. Of course it would be no challenge, or fun, if it was easy!! At least there are books on Canadian post offices, do books exist on US ones?
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re: Georgia town postmarks
Joe, its fun to see how many different towns(postoffices) there are in Georgia and Tennessee....i had to look at a return address to spell Tennessee. If anyone is looking for post office postmarks from the two states i just may be able to help.
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Joe,
There are a number of books written by a guy with last name Helbock, who wrote about all the post offices in the US, including the Rarity Factor of covers from each post office. I have used the information from Helbock's book about post offices in the mid-west in my Minnesota Cancels site https://mncancels.org.
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re: Georgia town postmarks
I am interested. I have always been interested in collecting covers from Georgia (my home state), but have never gotten very far with it. This would be a great way to jump start my collection.
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Kristin drinks the cool aid....
Actually, i think this kind of collecting is so, so, so cool. for the cost of postage, you get a collection.
And I get to see Phil divest himself of something..... there are a number of PhilPhirsts this week, both of which have shown themselves here.
Kristin, you go, girl (i never know how people read me, so, in case you're not sure, I'm cheering you one with great enthusiasm)
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re: Georgia town postmarks
This is cool. There are many people who collect a county, a state or a region. Since I've been selling on eBay I've met a lot of these folks and I actually think about individual people as I list covers! And often that person does buy the cover.
Personally, I collect New Jersey. I started this when I was 14. My uncle worked for a utility company and would bring me large boxes of envelopes from electric bill remittances. I soon got into seeing how many cancels I could collect. I had a paperback zip code directory I used to keep track. Then I started writing to postmasters for postmarks. When I did lose interest in stamps, I kept this shoebox accessible and would add covers from my mail over the years. As such, the collection has covers from our wedding response cards and many other family and friend covers.
Once I got back to collecting hot and heavy, I started buying covers with a vengeance! I put the collection on Ultra Pro two pocket pages, and created my own spreadsheet from several sources, of both past and present post offices.
The above is a sample page from my collection.
And the bottom of my spread sheet! The numbers keep tally automatically
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24 Jul 2022
10:57:12am
re: Georgia town postmarks
You have to really look at the covers very carefully. Sometimes the cover is postmarked at the destination as well as where it was sent and sometimes you can get your postmark that way. It is a fun thing to collect but in most cases completion will be difficult because there are always a few post offices that were only open for a short period of time. There are books listing both early Canadian and Nova Scotian post offices and I assume there are ones for US areas as well.
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re: Georgia town postmarks
There will be post offices open a short time, for a small population town, that no cancels survive.
I know I will never complete my NJ collection for that reason.
A lot of my cancels are on postcards or greeting card odd size envelopes because these are more likely to be saved than routine business correspondence. One reason I keep my collection in two pocket pages.
Then again, stuff happens. There was one NJ Rural Station that was open for 5 years and I figured I’d never get one and questioned whether it existed. I see it on eBay and grab it. In communication with the seller he tells me he has another, maybe more. Just to be friendly he sends me two! Both on greeting card envelopes between the same parties.
So there is stuff out there waiting to be discovered!
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08:07:04pm
re: Georgia town postmarks
I have saved searches on E-Bay for all the ones I am missing. I know they exist because an SOR member (Cherryl) has a complete collection except for two that she just found out about. Some will be difficult to find but they all exist, except possibly for two. I haven't added to my collection for a while though. Still stuck at about half - 25/47!!!
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Forgive if I stray a little bit here.I remember I used to get the girls in the office to keep all the office mail for me got a couple cancelled as least a week before they were issued !!both came from a car dealer in Alice Springs.I lost count the number of chequesI found in the envelopes some were quite large .I also managed to get complete used sets on cover commercial mail of the 2000 & 2004 Australian Olympics.
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