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For some reason i always thought covers should be pristine like a new first day cover. I would discard a nice cover for a torn flap or a tiny tear at the top of a opened letter cover. What was i thinking ? The cover i am showing has a crease in the middle...i did not like them either. If someone can read the message on the back of the cover i do not know if it was written before or after mailing.
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AFTER, it refers to the due stamp, applied at the Lima PO after receipt (mailed as if it were local, which it is not, or as the sender was, um, frugal, which is part of the subject of the text).
Agreed, this kind of cover screams "Love MEEEE"
Funny mention FDCs: I don't specifically collect them, but can't pass them up when they are actually mailed and things go awry.
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Thanks, i could not read the back but it occurred to me that perhaps they were trying to test the post office.
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I took the liberty of running the back image through ImageSleuth.
I think that the result is much more legible.
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Clive, thanks...quite a tale .
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My confession would be the opposite:
I always considered covers to be baggage to be promptly discarded.
I had one cover with a stamp so worthless it wasn't worth the effort to liberate it from the cover.
So I just set it aside for decades.
It is now an important part of family history!
Sure wish I had the contents of that letter now!
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I like covers. They tell a story that goes beyond stamps alone. For folks who would cut a stamp off a cover, the ones that bothered me most are used US Zeppelins. They show parts of the customary cancels you’d see on flown covers, one I saw even had a corner of the ink stamped cachet. I cannot imagine the dolt who destroyed flown covers to get stamps to fit in his album!
I had a funny sale on eBay. I had a fellow in Europe who bought a bunch of FDCs with booklet panes. He messaged me that I could cut the stamps off the covers to save shipping cost to him! What?!
I didn’t do that! Too painful and with my luck he’d want to return them later. But I did clarify his intention to soak them off for his used USA collection. I got permission to substitute in messy covers where the stamps were fine, lessening the loss to our hobby! He has ordered again so now I keep my eye out for damaged covers as I search my boxes!
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Messy covers LOL I collected for the stamp, date, Postmark or the country Etc. Did not care about the condition of the cover.
That's why I have over 25,000 Covers left I am selling. I had a lifetime of collecting them. Now I am moving them on. and still enjoying the covers as they go. I had one Burnt, and water stained in a plastic bag from a train wreck.
Keep on Stamping
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For some reason i always thought covers should be pristine like a new first day cover. I would discard a nice cover for a torn flap or a tiny tear at the top of a opened letter cover. What was i thinking ? The cover i am showing has a crease in the middle...i did not like them either. If someone can read the message on the back of the cover i do not know if it was written before or after mailing.
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AFTER, it refers to the due stamp, applied at the Lima PO after receipt (mailed as if it were local, which it is not, or as the sender was, um, frugal, which is part of the subject of the text).
Agreed, this kind of cover screams "Love MEEEE"
Funny mention FDCs: I don't specifically collect them, but can't pass them up when they are actually mailed and things go awry.
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Thanks, i could not read the back but it occurred to me that perhaps they were trying to test the post office.
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re: Confessions of a Former cover snob
I took the liberty of running the back image through ImageSleuth.
I think that the result is much more legible.
Clive
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Clive, thanks...quite a tale .
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re: Confessions of a Former cover snob
My confession would be the opposite:
I always considered covers to be baggage to be promptly discarded.
I had one cover with a stamp so worthless it wasn't worth the effort to liberate it from the cover.
So I just set it aside for decades.
It is now an important part of family history!
Sure wish I had the contents of that letter now!
Lars
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re: Confessions of a Former cover snob
I like covers. They tell a story that goes beyond stamps alone. For folks who would cut a stamp off a cover, the ones that bothered me most are used US Zeppelins. They show parts of the customary cancels you’d see on flown covers, one I saw even had a corner of the ink stamped cachet. I cannot imagine the dolt who destroyed flown covers to get stamps to fit in his album!
I had a funny sale on eBay. I had a fellow in Europe who bought a bunch of FDCs with booklet panes. He messaged me that I could cut the stamps off the covers to save shipping cost to him! What?!
I didn’t do that! Too painful and with my luck he’d want to return them later. But I did clarify his intention to soak them off for his used USA collection. I got permission to substitute in messy covers where the stamps were fine, lessening the loss to our hobby! He has ordered again so now I keep my eye out for damaged covers as I search my boxes!
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re: Confessions of a Former cover snob
Messy covers LOL I collected for the stamp, date, Postmark or the country Etc. Did not care about the condition of the cover.
That's why I have over 25,000 Covers left I am selling. I had a lifetime of collecting them. Now I am moving them on. and still enjoying the covers as they go. I had one Burnt, and water stained in a plastic bag from a train wreck.
Keep on Stamping
Richard
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