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The US Airmail That Never Was
I have unsuccessfully been pondering a philatelic mystery for some
time and thought this would be an excellent forum to bring it to in hope of solving it. I had either a Scott or Harris plate block album in the early 1960s, which had pictured in it a US airmail stamp honoring the InterAmerican Conference to be held in Quito, Ecuador sometime in the early 1960s (during the heady Alliance for Progress days). This stamp was never issued by the postal authorities and I have never seen it in any catalog nor mentioned in any other source. Does anyone have any information about this stamp and its story? |
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If I recall correctly, the conference was canceled and the stamp withdrawn and
never issued, although it had been announced. This happened before the stamp was even printed, so none could escape careless hands. |
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I've pretty much exhausted my references on this subject without finding
anything. I believe that the Post Office Department's files from this era are now located in the research library in the National Postal Museum (part of the Smithsonian) in Washington. You might try contacting them (no, I don't know how, but I'll bet you can find them on the Internet). |
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