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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : We don't say things like this any more ...

 

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07 Sep 2013
11:26:42pm
.. at least not in slogan cancels. Ahh, for the old days of political incorrectness ...

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08 Sep 2013
08:51:05am

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re: We don't say things like this any more ...

You would need a dog around here...i guess they did not have that problem ! Happy

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08 Sep 2013
01:30:44pm
re: We don't say things like this any more ...

I wonder if the message inside carried news of some stamper's passing. A wife, perhaps telling the dealer not to send any more approvals or asking how to settle her spouse's account.

In the 1940s we had abig RCA Victrola console in the living room and my parents had a pile of heavy 78RPM "bakolite "(????) one sided records nearby that I'd play when I got the chance. They cracked very easily, but were the "Cat's meow" at the time.

As soon as I saw this cover I began to remember a rainy afternoon at about age nine or ten sitting there listening to a twangy cowboy voice on a scratchy record, toy gun belt around my waist and a Hopalong Cassidy 37.9 liter hat perched jauntily on my head.

" ....LETTER EDGED IN BLACK

I was standing by my window Monday morning,
Without a thought of worry or a care,
When I saw the postman coming up the walkway,
With a happy face and a jolly air.

He rang the bell and whistled as he waited,
Then he said; "Good morning to you, Jack,"
But he did not know the sorrow he had brought me,
As he handed me a letter edged in black.

With a trembling hand I took the letter from him,
I broke the seal and this is what it said:
"Come home my on, your dear old father wants you
Come home my boy, your poor old mother's dead."


I bowed my head in sorrow and in sadness,
The sunshine of my life, it all had fled,
When the post man brought that letter Monday morning,
"Saying come home my boy, your poor old mother's dead."

"The last words your mother ever whispered,
Tell my son I want him to come back,"

My eyes were blurred, my poor old heart was breaking,
As I read Dad's letter edged in black.

"Forget those angry words that we had spoken,
You know I didn't mean them, don't you, Jack?
May the angels be my witness, I am asking,
Your forgiveness in this letter edged in black."
....."

I can almost hear the git-fiddle and harmonica cords in the background.

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10 Sep 2013
01:32:26am
re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Is the letter edged in black ?
I don't see it.

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10 Sep 2013
02:37:38pm
re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Doesn't look like it's edged in black. You can see where the top is torn open and there is no black there. Just a black background.

I'm sure the slogan cancel is the reason for the posting of this cover.

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tedlawrence

10 Sep 2013
02:38:27pm
re: We don't say things like this any more ...

cdj1122: Those old records were made of Shellac. They were 78 RPM & were made from about 1894 to about 1958. Ted ( ex record collector )

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10 Sep 2013
05:24:41pm
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Doodles ... correct on both counts.

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10 Sep 2013
08:33:52pm
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Poor bunnies.

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Jeredutt3

11 Sep 2013
12:15:38am
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I agree that the black is just a background for this particular cover.

But in reference to the song.. Johnny Cash does a great cover of it ! I forgot how much I liked it.

My memory doesn't go quite as far back as yours but remember listening to it as a kid with my cousins in N Carolina.

Jere

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12 Sep 2013
02:01:52am
re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Of course the cover is on a black background, and I must be going blind.

I guess I got caught up in nostalgia and started to recall that song. I do have a letter that is actually edged in black from around the 1900s in one of the cover albums. If I ever get the scanner to work right I'll post a scan of it. I think it is one of the series of envelopes that still holds the letter.



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07 Sep 2013
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.. at least not in slogan cancels. Ahh, for the old days of political incorrectness ...

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08 Sep 2013
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You would need a dog around here...i guess they did not have that problem ! Happy

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
08 Sep 2013
01:30:44pm

re: We don't say things like this any more ...

I wonder if the message inside carried news of some stamper's passing. A wife, perhaps telling the dealer not to send any more approvals or asking how to settle her spouse's account.

In the 1940s we had abig RCA Victrola console in the living room and my parents had a pile of heavy 78RPM "bakolite "(????) one sided records nearby that I'd play when I got the chance. They cracked very easily, but were the "Cat's meow" at the time.

As soon as I saw this cover I began to remember a rainy afternoon at about age nine or ten sitting there listening to a twangy cowboy voice on a scratchy record, toy gun belt around my waist and a Hopalong Cassidy 37.9 liter hat perched jauntily on my head.

" ....LETTER EDGED IN BLACK

I was standing by my window Monday morning,
Without a thought of worry or a care,
When I saw the postman coming up the walkway,
With a happy face and a jolly air.

He rang the bell and whistled as he waited,
Then he said; "Good morning to you, Jack,"
But he did not know the sorrow he had brought me,
As he handed me a letter edged in black.

With a trembling hand I took the letter from him,
I broke the seal and this is what it said:
"Come home my on, your dear old father wants you
Come home my boy, your poor old mother's dead."


I bowed my head in sorrow and in sadness,
The sunshine of my life, it all had fled,
When the post man brought that letter Monday morning,
"Saying come home my boy, your poor old mother's dead."

"The last words your mother ever whispered,
Tell my son I want him to come back,"

My eyes were blurred, my poor old heart was breaking,
As I read Dad's letter edged in black.

"Forget those angry words that we had spoken,
You know I didn't mean them, don't you, Jack?
May the angels be my witness, I am asking,
Your forgiveness in this letter edged in black."
....."

I can almost hear the git-fiddle and harmonica cords in the background.

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10 Sep 2013
01:32:26am

re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Is the letter edged in black ?
I don't see it.

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10 Sep 2013
02:37:38pm

re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Doesn't look like it's edged in black. You can see where the top is torn open and there is no black there. Just a black background.

I'm sure the slogan cancel is the reason for the posting of this cover.

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tedlawrence

10 Sep 2013
02:38:27pm

re: We don't say things like this any more ...

cdj1122: Those old records were made of Shellac. They were 78 RPM & were made from about 1894 to about 1958. Ted ( ex record collector )

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10 Sep 2013
05:24:41pm

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Doodles ... correct on both counts.

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Dogs are my favorite people. I hang with this one as often as I can.
10 Sep 2013
08:33:52pm

re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Poor bunnies.

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11 Sep 2013
12:15:38am

re: We don't say things like this any more ...

I agree that the black is just a background for this particular cover.

But in reference to the song.. Johnny Cash does a great cover of it ! I forgot how much I liked it.

My memory doesn't go quite as far back as yours but remember listening to it as a kid with my cousins in N Carolina.

Jere

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
12 Sep 2013
02:01:52am

re: We don't say things like this any more ...

Of course the cover is on a black background, and I must be going blind.

I guess I got caught up in nostalgia and started to recall that song. I do have a letter that is actually edged in black from around the 1900s in one of the cover albums. If I ever get the scanner to work right I'll post a scan of it. I think it is one of the series of envelopes that still holds the letter.



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