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Any and all events are a good reason for marking the day with a special postal cover. The celebrations that surrounds the opening of an airport were no exceptions. Certainly a big event in the life of any town as they moved into the modern age of air travel. Frequently with engraved cachets, the majority of these covers bear rubber stamps cachets applied the day of the event and signed by local dignitaries, pilots and Chamber of Commerce members.
Air Races, airshow and other special event involving aviation would with certainty include the production of a special event cover. Because the mail was so closely linked to the progress of aviation due to the mail contracts that funded much of the development, this is a logical extension and one that is enjoyable for collectors today.
Catapult Mail was literally catapulted off specially equipped ships when the launching ship was still a day out of port. Close enough for a plane to leave the ship and reach shore cutting a day off the delivery time for the mail. This was a very limited service, costing an extra charge, and the covers all received a special marking of interest to us today.
First Flight Covers mark the initial transport of mail over newly established routes connecting cities to the new wonder of airmail. Know as CAM routed for domestic mail and FAM routes for international mail, a collection of these covers in any degree of completeness is a challenge that can give years of enjoyment.
Code: A5730*Cover
Price: $3.00
Air Mail Week - 1938 Medford Oregon Cachet commemorting Oregons first official and regular air mail f ... more info
Code: A5734*Cover
Price: $3.00
Air Mail Week - 1938 U.S. #C23 on Cachet Cover dated May 15, 1938, commemorating a San Diego First, fi ... more info
Code: A5736*Cover
Price: $3.00
Transcontinental Handicap Derby A special cachet for the overnight stop of planes from the National Sw ... more info
Code: A5741*Cover
Price: $5.00
Eire Railroad Centennial Cover Meadville, PA Chamber of Commerce Cachet honoring the Erie Railroad Ce ... more info
Code: A5749*Cover
Price: $3.00
1948 Cleveland National Air Races Cachet Cover with September 6, 1948 Cleveland Air Mail Field Cancel ... more info
Code: A5750*Cover
Price: $5.00
First Voyage of S.S. Manhattan U.S. German Sea Post cancel on Cachet Cover for the Maiden Voyage of th ... more info
Code: A5754*Cover
Price: $3.00
Pendleton, Oregon First Flight Cover 1934 cover with cachet from Pendleton to Boise (backstamped) ... more info
Code: A5757*Cover
Price: $3.00
First Air Mail Flight SF to Saigon May 22, 1953 Pan American World Airways First Air Mail Flight from ... more info
Code: A5760*Cover
Price: $2.00
125 Years of City of Wooster Celebration cover with a tie in to the Airship Dock in Akron, Ohio ... more info
Code: A5761*Cover
Price: $10.00
Century of Progress Linprint Cachet Post Card A very attractive item with address in pencil, blank on ... more info
Code: A5779*Cover
Price: $3.00
Mass Maneuver and Aerial Review July 28, 1932 U.S. Light Target No. 1,1X35 Cancel for event with 450 A ... more info
Code: A5782*Cover
Price: $5.00
First Voyage of S.S. Manhattan U.S. German Sea Post cancel on Cachet Cover for the Maiden Voyage of th ... more info
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