This mourning cover to France dated Sep 30, 1874, is not particularly valuable. But it highlights perfectly the facets which make New York City Foreign Mail such an attractive collecting genre. Primarily, it shows a perfectly struck NYCFM geometric cancel, alongside an equally well struck red New York Exchange Office datestamp and a blue French […]

FAM-22 PAA WW II Atlantic Censorships Impact on Mail Routes - Gordon Eubanks The inaugural flight of Italy’s LATI service 21 December 1939 non-philatelic letter from Rome to Buenos Aires. The letter avoided being censored. L 13 in stamps pay L 1.25 surface and L 11.75 air. Southbound commemorative cancel #2 (Beith).

CHICAGOPEX 2023 November 17-19 The Collectors Club will have a table at the show and will host a dinner We will also present two programs during the course of the show.

1809 letter to the Captain of HMS Tartar, part of the British Baltic Fleet, from his wife. The cover that started me researching the Harwich packets since nothing then published could tell me why it was charged 2/2d, why endorsed “via Gottenburg”, and how it got to destination. Six years later have now written two […]

Denmark and Great Britain - Mail across the North Sea to 1875 - Birthe and Chris King Register Now 12 November 1828, Part wrapper sent from Danish Altona to London, with SCHIFFS BRIEF-POST HAMBURG and SHIP LETTER LONDON (W&J 1218 recorded 1820-1846). Charged 4 Schilling Courant in Hamburg and charged 1/4 as a double rate […]