Modern Local posts are always fun, although most modern ones are arranged around an event . This is rather a hybrid in that it is modern ( I consider anything younger than me ~modern) and also served for actual deliveries on Rattlesnake Is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnake_Island_(Lake_Erie) The part about the local post is midway down. The NASA local post is described here : http://spacecovers.com/misc/nasalp.htm I tried to collect these decades ago, but just have a couple. Non- modern local posts are usually very expensive and one must be very careful to avoid counterfeits.
I have a rocket mail cover some place, I will look at it. Oddity covers have been my main interest in the cover field. A normal one doesn't excite me. Different types of mail delivery and routes do. Here is some for today. The Highway Post Office cover is interesting as most collectors know very little about this. If you do, you are an experienced US collector http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Post_Office The Fort Verde to Phoenix route interested me as I have rentals in Flagstaff and drive the route north from Phoenix couple of times a year They are of course doing it on horseback
If by chance of my memory, I post something I have before, my excuse is that I have been on many stamp forums in the past, and I sometimes forget. Here is something for the baseball fan.
One of my favorite 'odd mail transport/delivery' covers. As some know , it was suppose to represent the future, but it didn't catch on
Here is one of 140 covers cached and flown round trip from St. Louis to Chicago back to St. Louis in a F-100 Sabre Jet. Obviously it was an "in" group. The fun part besides the Sabre jet , the group was related to 'Slim' ~ The Missouri Nat. Guard 110th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Air_National_Guard
It might not look like much but it is postmarked 17 November 1944 for those who dont know the Channel Islands at that time were under German occupation. This is my 1st cover from there and I have to say I am extremely pleased to own it. It is a gift from a friend In Ireland and got to me this morning
The years of the second world war would certainly be a nice world specialty album for an advanced collector or even a writer framing a story in those years. Steve , it is nice that it ended up with someone who could appreciate the date, place and situation. Nice! Jim
Here are a couple more that might be of interest. Kangaroo Island is off of Australia as you might expect, and it has to use Australian stamps, although many occupants want their own. This pane of 4 lighthouses were printed in 1990 , but could not be used for postage, so these are cinderellas and not cataloged, but there were a very small number issued. Also some collectors wanted to make their own covers for new issues. I have a couple of home made covers. Here is one where the maker increased the image of a stamp and then folded it to envelope size. He used small stickers ( which could be removed) for the address. And ending with a traditional cover. Jim
DesertGem: Here's another concept that didn't catch on. Among the stamp-related things I collect are covers that picture an identifiable aircraft on them. The cover below depicts a Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar. It was used, in this instance, as a platform for sorting mail while flying from one destination to another. The mail sorting process was based on the Railway Mail Service concept and the railway mailcar. In this case, however, it didn't catch on and was soon abandoned. It was, however, an interesting experiment that rounded out the transportation possibilities of the 20th century, railway mail, sea post, and flying mail. Don
Very nice cover. This seems to be a good time of the decade to look for the odd cover, as covers seem to have decreased more so than classics.
