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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 22:09:26 GMT
Good Day All, Thank you Ted and Moderator for your help in creating this dedicated board for Airmail enthusiasts. As discussed in my intro post, anything to do with mail delivered using flight as a means of transportation is my passion. Hopefully I`ll post some pictures of my humble collection very soon. By having this dedicated board I hope to centralise the discussion on the Airmail topic. I hope and expect to learn from others on this board/site. This dedicated board surely provides me an easy to find (now) spot to share my passion...thanks again
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 22:28:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 22:34:55 GMT
As part of my collection, this France Scott catalogue number C15 has to be my most favorite. I love the engraved technique and especially the fact that this one looks like a bank note (another passion of mine)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 22:43:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2023 23:23:19 GMT
I really enjoy collecting Airmail stamps from France. The French postal service ,``La Poste``, issues quality stamps with well thought out themes in my opinion. I really enjoy the flight over cities themes. Another aspect of the French Airmail that I enjoy is the fact that the series is still running with C85 having been released for 2022. looking forward to C86 I am like a dog on a bone when it comes to completing a set or series. I must add here that I collect Airmail stamps from all over the world. Regarding my U.S Airmail collection I am working on upgrading certain ``space fillers`` with nicer examples.
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Mar 3, 2023 0:16:28 GMT
Glad you find the board okay. May I suggest that you title your threads according to the topic, to make it easier for folks to find them again?
Thanks for the nice stamps. Those are, indeed, some beauts.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 2:54:07 GMT
Ted, Absolutely sorry about my poor choice for a title, perhaps a moderator could change the thread name to ``my journey into Airmail``, simply because that is what it is sounding like so far Thank you for the heads up Ted
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 3:05:25 GMT
Question: Does anyone know countries, besides France for example, that continue to issue Specific Airmail postage stamps or tags...etc. ?
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Post by khj on Mar 3, 2023 3:05:27 GMT
You can change the title yourself by going to your starting post in the thread, clicking on the "Edit" button, and that will allow you to change the thread title.
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Post by khj on Mar 3, 2023 3:27:14 GMT
Question: Does anyone know countries, besides France for example, that continue to issue Specific Airmail postage stamps or tags...etc. ? The difficulty nowadays is how to define "airmail" stamp. In the old days, it was simple -- it was service-inscribed air/airmail/airpost in the native language. Many countries now drop the designation, or use something else. For instance, the use dropped "AIRMAIL" and changed it to a plane silhouette. Now they've dropped the silhouette and inscribe it as Global Forever. Does that make it an "airmail" stamp. Many countries don't even put a designation. The rate simply meets the airmail rate. If I'm not mistaken, several of the 2022 France stamps that meet the various airmail rates for postcard, letter... aren't inscribed Poste Arienne. Many countries issue airmail rate stamps. But fewer service-inscribe those stamps.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 4:29:31 GMT
Thank you khj, title changed
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 4:39:48 GMT
khj, good points. I need to look for modern catalogues that list stamps using the "C" prefix...let the experts decide
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Post by khj on Mar 3, 2023 6:11:57 GMT
I need to look for modern catalogues that list stamps using the "C" prefix...let the experts decide As one who uses Scott 95% of the time, this is one of the times where I would say "ignore Scott". Why? Because Scott is notorious for being inconsistent (but I will say they are consistent about being inconsistent). The history of the Scott catalog is multiple train-wrecks when it comes to listing airmails. In the early days, airmails were listed with the rest of the postage. In 1940, they moved the airmails and other service-specific stamps in separate sections (today referred to as BOB, i.e., Back of Book) and began adding "prefixes" to the catalog number to distinguish the different usages/inscriptions. In the 1960s(?) when they realized some countries issued postage/airmail stamps in the same set, they still split the airmails off separately. The 1968 US "Airlift" stamp, although originally an airmail stamp for packages, was not inscribed "airmail". Scott does not list it in the airmail section, because it wasn't inscribed "Airmail" In the 1980s(? or 1990s), they began to keep those combined postage/airmail sets together in the postage section and only mention which stamps were actually airmail stamps (catalog number was not given "C" prefix). But they didn't consistently do this, and they didn't go back and renumber the original listings. In the 1990s, they began regularly listing stamps as airmails even if they weren't specifically inscribed air/airmail/airpost. They used the change to the plane silhouettes on the US stamps as the reason. In the past, stamps that met a specific airmail rate but weren't inscribed airmail, were relegated to the postage section, regardless of whether the stamp design was aviation related in any way. Now, I think they currently just flip a coin to decide. I don't mean to be sarcastic. Scott has turned me that way... k PS -- sorry about the (?)'s. My memory is really degrading. Not sure when that started to happen...
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Post by martyn on Mar 3, 2023 11:21:13 GMT
Guyana 6 September 1984, Airmail from ICAO set of 26.
From the same set you get this one with same value (200c) but doesn't say "AIR", don't know how Scott deals with that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 14:21:59 GMT
khj, Not making excuses but, organizations like Scott and the likes that are considered the "the experts" often make calls that annoy the very folks they support. This as been my experience during my career also...rules changed every year. Having said that, my hopes are that the answers are/will be found in forums like this one. The collective knowledge in the collector community will be/is filling the void. martyn, Thank you! very nice pictures and your insight is awesome. I now need to find Guyana Airmail stamps. Just a mere hours ago I had no idea Guyana had overprinted Airmail specific stamps. The search begins... I usually find such stamps in the Airmail category of popular selling sites. That has been "my go" source for countries that were elusive to me.
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