Richard Kimmel Posted August 15, 2010 Share #1 Posted August 15, 2010 I'm not certain if I had mentioned this before however, when I first began collecting back in 1945, it was the postage stamps that were being issued during the wartime period. If there is an interest in this topic, please let's try an continue it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siege1863 Posted August 15, 2010 Share #2 Posted August 15, 2010 Here is a WWII postal cover I happened to have at my desk the moment I saw your post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimmel Posted August 15, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted August 15, 2010 Here is a WWII postal cover I happened to have at my desk the moment I saw your post! Great cover! Wish I had it in my collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted August 15, 2010 Share #4 Posted August 15, 2010 Here are few WWII First Day Covers I picked up in college many years ago. Not as sexy as the ones posted so far, but still interesting enough to hang onto for 30 years: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted August 15, 2010 Share #5 Posted August 15, 2010 And last but not least a cover that is technically not WWII, but one of my favorites: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siege1863 Posted August 15, 2010 Share #6 Posted August 15, 2010 One more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimmel Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share #7 Posted August 16, 2010 One more... Great covers! Keep'em coming guys. I have all of the wartime issues in blocks and in full sheets (not the modern ones). This is a great area to collect and it's still relatively inexpensive when compared to other militaria items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 16, 2010 Share #8 Posted August 16, 2010 I'm not certain if I had mentioned this before however, when I first began collecting back in 1945, it was the postage stamps that were being issued during the wartime period. If there is an interest in this topic, please let's try an continue it. Hi Richard, I have some envelopes and stamps from WWII, in fact the next five posts are envelopes all addressed to the same person Herman Broomall, Uplands, PA, there's about two hundred of them :think: too many to display here other than I have done in groups. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 16, 2010 Share #9 Posted August 16, 2010 Cont........... Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 16, 2010 Share #10 Posted August 16, 2010 Cont.................. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 16, 2010 Share #11 Posted August 16, 2010 Cont................. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 16, 2010 Share #12 Posted August 16, 2010 Cont................. These two are hand drawn cartoons by serving members, serving soldiers could send mail ' free ' written in the top right of an envelope where satmps would normally be attached. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 16, 2010 Share #13 Posted August 16, 2010 Cont................. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 16, 2010 Share #14 Posted August 16, 2010 Cont................. As they say at the end of the cartoons, ' That's all folks ' Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehrentitle Posted August 16, 2010 Share #15 Posted August 16, 2010 Cont................. These two are hand drawn cartoons by serving members, serving soldiers could send mail ' free ' written in the top right of an envelope where satmps would normally be attached. Cheers Lewis The letter with the Quartermaster image many have originally been hand drawn and later reproduced in bulk as I've seen many of these covers over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 17, 2010 Share #16 Posted August 17, 2010 The letter with the Quartermaster image many have originally been hand drawn and later reproduced in bulk as I've seen many of these covers over the years. Hi ehrentitle, thanks for letting me know about the envelopes with the hand drawn quartermaster image. I don't think I had picked up on that as we don't normally see many of these envelopes over in Europe, I think most dealers see them as a home front rather ' military ' item. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimmel Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share #17 Posted August 19, 2010 Hi ehrentitle, thanks for letting me know about the envelopes with the hand drawn quartermaster image. I don't think I had picked up on that as we don't normally see many of these envelopes over in Europe, I think most dealers see them as a home front rather ' military ' item. Cheers Lewis Lewis ... that is truly an impressive collection of covers, especially since they've all been sent to the same individual. :thumbsup: Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 19, 2010 Share #18 Posted August 19, 2010 Lewis ... that is truly an impressive collection of covers, especially since they've all been sent to the same individual. :thumbsup: Richard Hi Richard, thanks for the comment, I took the photos a couple of months back with the intention of starting a topic with them but never got round to it, and then saw that you started one so I added them to yours, Thanks :thumbsup: We think of most people collecting since WWII when this recipient was collecting during WWII. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 19, 2010 Share #19 Posted August 19, 2010 I'm not certain if I had mentioned this before however, when I first began collecting back in 1945, it was the postage stamps that were being issued during the wartime period. If there is an interest in this topic, please let's try an continue it. Hi Richard, my mother's younger sister died in 1948 aged nineteen or twenty, and way before I was born. When I was around nine I was visiting my grandmothers and she was having a clear out at her house and threw out a packed stamp album that belonged to my mother's sister who died. I have kept that album as my mother explained to me that her sister worked in a firms export office from when she left school until she died, and she had kept stamps off envelopes that came into the office from all over the world. In this and the next post are the two pages of U.S. stamps, I hope they are clear enough to see most of them are between 1940 and 1948 I believe. I know nothing as to value on these U.S. stamps. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 19, 2010 Share #20 Posted August 19, 2010 Cont................. This is the second of two pages of U.S. stamps, I hope they are clear enough to see most of them are between 1940 and 1948 I believe. I know nothing as to value on these U.S. stamps. Cheers Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincennes Posted August 22, 2010 Share #21 Posted August 22, 2010 Here is my favorite WW2 postcard. I live in Tulsa, OK. The picture is V-E Day in Tulsa and look at the postmark...it is V-J Day! The actual day of Japan's surrender. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted August 19, 2021 Share #22 Posted August 19, 2021 This is an old but good topic that just got cross referenced by another good topic here... I don't have any individual stamps, but here are a my wartime covers that I thought I'd share here. Enjoy! mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverickson Posted September 5, 2021 Share #23 Posted September 5, 2021 Hi All, I"m also an avid cover collector. After reviewing this thread I saw a cover that was similar to one of my own. See below. Cheers, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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