Showing posts with label Stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stamps. Show all posts

Boy's Town


Boy's Town stamps.

Found in "The New Wonder World: Invention and Industry" published by Geo. E. Shuman Co., 1946.

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Danger In Boy's Town

Six Boy's Town stamps.

Found in "Danger In Paradise" by Octavius Roy Cohen. Published by The Popular Library, 1944.

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Rain Or Shine


Block of four 5 cent stamps celebrating "City Mail Delivery - 1863-1963."

Found in "The First Forty Years of Washington Society in the Family Letters of Margaret Bayard Smith" published by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1965.

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Around The World

Collection of cancelled postage stamps.

Found in "Starting From San Francisco" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Published by New Directions, 1967.


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The Fortress

Four 3-cent stamps featuring La Fortaleza in Puerto Rico.

Found in "The Story of Everest" by Captain John Noel. Published by Blue Ribbon Books, 1931.



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Delivered



Fifteen Hungarian postage stamps.

Found in "Phonetics of American English" by Charles Kenneth Thomas. Published by Ronald Press, 1958.




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Philately



Small collection of stamps, mostly cancelled.

Found in "The Fascinating Story of Dolls" by Janet Pagter Johl. Published by Century House, 1977.




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Hail To The Chief


Collection of postage stamps featuring the US Presidents, from Washington to Teddy Roosevelt.

The former owner has titled it "Memory of our Presidents."

Found in "Mother Goose in Words of One Syllable" published by Saalfield, 1909.


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Grace


First day cover commerorating the royal wedding of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly, dated April 19, 1956.

Found in "This Very Earth" by Erskine Caldwell. Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948.

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Cancelled

This collection of cancelled stamps were all in this envelope, addressed to "Box Apartment, Uptown Freeman, Kingston NY."

Found in the November 30, 1970 issue of Time Magazine.


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