Modern Postal History
censuses of hard to find usages



Stampsjoann (click here)

 
 
This page is devoted to a series of mini censuses of easily overlooked, but extremely difficult to collect, modern postal history covers.

As Tony Wawrukiewicz relates....  I've really enjoyed seeing the examples of Liberty usages lately and the web sites that are showing them. This represents a great way to put together a census. For instance, when I exhibit, I can say that the Liberty Issue Study Group census has discovered 6 examples of  the 5¢ penalty of July 1958, which have Liberty issue stamps on the  covers, and I have two of the 6 examples in this exhibit....

Everyone is encouraged to respond to other collectors' requests for information and also to request information from other collectors.   If you wish to add one of your covers to an ongoing census just drop me an e-mail (click E-Mail image at the bottom of this page) and send me a description/rating of your cover and  two jpg scans at 100% ... one scan at 100 dpi, the other at 300 dpi.


Tony asks about the 25¢ Revere paying the international surface rate...

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Joann asks about the 19¢ Sequoyah paying the international post card rate....
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Tony Asks if this reply paid post card also franked with an 11¢ Liberty is possibly a unique item?
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Tony asks about usages of the 8¢ Liberty to pay the 8¢/oz domestic airmail rate.

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Joann asks about the usage of nondenominated stamps on mail to foreign addresses...
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Roland asks about the usage of the 6¢ Stars stamp on post cards.....

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Joann asks about usages showing the 5¢ penalty fee for underpayment of postage during the month of July 1958.

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Two other sites for examples of modern US postal history are those of Roland Austin...
+ The Liberty series at........  http://members.aol.com/raustin13/studygrp/liberty.htm
+ Modern Postal History at...  http://members.aol.com/raustin13/modernph/conph.htm
 
For more information about  U.S. Domestic Postal Rates, 1872-1999, the excellent reference used to help rate these covers , click <here>  

I welcome additional examples and information about the covers shown and also suggestions for other mini censuses of modern US postal postal usages.




Stampsjoann (click here)