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Corner Card Covers
Does anyone collect current U.S. corner card covers? Who are these
collectors? Where are these collectors? I was sorting through a stack of envelopes (covers) from my daily mail last week when these questions came to mind. I noticed some really colorful and unusual envelopes. Jim Pettway |
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Corner Card Covers
G'day Jim, Corner Cards, Pinnacles, Cameos, Advertising Collars Hotels and buildings what a great hobby we have see here http://alphabetilately.com/A.html One can get hooked at a bourse looking through boxes of these, before you know it 3 hrs have slipped by "Jim Pettway" wrote in message . .. Does anyone collect current U.S. corner card covers? Who are these collectors? Where are these collectors? I was sorting through a stack of envelopes (covers) from my daily mail last week when these questions came to mind. I noticed some really colorful and unusual envelopes. Jim Pettway |
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Corner Card Covers
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:05:19 -0400, "Jim Pettway"
wrote: Does anyone collect current U.S. corner card covers? Who are these collectors? Where are these collectors? I was sorting through a stack of envelopes (covers) from my daily mail last week when these questions came to mind. I noticed some really colorful and unusual envelopes. I don't know about you, but a dealer friend is selling these all the time in his quarterly auction. There must be a market for them, because they always seem to go out the door. Advertising covers back then were not like the junk mail we receive today, that's for sure. Amazing what time will do... |
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Corner Card Covers
On Mar 19, 1:04�am, "Rod" wrote:
G'day Jim, Corner Cards, Pinnacles, Cameos, Advertising Collars Hotels and buildings what a great hobby we have see herehttp://alphabetilately.com/A.html One can get hooked at a bourse looking through boxes of these, before you know it 3 hrs have slipped by "Jim Pettway" wrote in message . .. Does anyone collect current U.S. corner card covers? *Who are these collectors? *Where are these collectors? *I was sorting through a stack of envelopes (covers) from my daily mail last week when these questions came to mind. *I noticed some really colorful and unusual envelopes. Jim Pettway- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - To me it looks like the response was a bit off track from the original post. "current" was the original point. I have no clue what "card corners" are. Ralphael, the OLD one |
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Corner Card Covers
On Mar 19, 12:04 pm, Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:21:58 -0500, found these unused words floating about: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:05:19 -0400, "Jim Pettway" wrote: Does anyone collect current U.S. corner card covers? Who are these collectors? Where are these collectors? I was sorting through a stack of envelopes (covers) from my daily mail last week when these questions came to mind. I noticed some really colorful and unusual envelopes. I don't know about you, but a dealer friend is selling these all the time in his quarterly auction. There must be a market for them, because they always seem to go out the door. Advertising covers back then were not like the junk mail we receive today, that's for sure. Amazing what time will do... Dunno, there are some very small users still utilizing the upper left / left side of the envelopes in creative advertising. The huge mass mailings (if they use any form of envelope advertising) are, well, boring. I agree. Oh to see covers like this in my junk mail. http://alphabetilately.com/Trains/0295-cover.jpg http://alphabetilately.com/Trains/0295-adv-a.jpg http://www.intayrnet.com/collectable...es/monarch.jpg http://www.intayrnet.com/collectable...res/vandus.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1772.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1711.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1762.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1791.jpg http://www.la-posta.com/SubAuc76-PIP...Ad%20Cover.jpg http://www.immediateannuities.com/mu...ed/1350006.JPG Blair |
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On 19 Mar 2007 08:45:02 -0700, "Blair (TC)"
wrote: On Mar 19, 12:04 pm, Sir F. A. Rien wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:21:58 -0500, found these unused words floating about: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:05:19 -0400, "Jim Pettway" wrote: Does anyone collect current U.S. corner card covers? Who are these collectors? Where are these collectors? I was sorting through a stack of envelopes (covers) from my daily mail last week when these questions came to mind. I noticed some really colorful and unusual envelopes. I don't know about you, but a dealer friend is selling these all the time in his quarterly auction. There must be a market for them, because they always seem to go out the door. Advertising covers back then were not like the junk mail we receive today, that's for sure. Amazing what time will do... Dunno, there are some very small users still utilizing the upper left / left side of the envelopes in creative advertising. The huge mass mailings (if they use any form of envelope advertising) are, well, boring. I agree. Oh to see covers like this in my junk mail. http://alphabetilately.com/Trains/0295-cover.jpg http://alphabetilately.com/Trains/0295-adv-a.jpg http://www.intayrnet.com/collectable...es/monarch.jpg http://www.intayrnet.com/collectable...res/vandus.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1772.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1711.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1762.jpg http://www.maresch.com/417/photos/a1791.jpg http://www.la-posta.com/SubAuc76-PIP...Ad%20Cover.jpg http://www.immediateannuities.com/mu...ed/1350006.JPG Most definitely. These are what I'm talking about. This is one area where my dealer friend makes some contacts. People are readily grabbing them in his auctions, AFAIK. |
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Corner Card Covers
Covers like the one Blair pointed us to, at
http://www.la-posta.com/SubAuc76-PIP...Ad%20Cover.jpg, are representative of illustrated mail. Section Nine of the VANPEX 2009 exhibition is reserved for illustrated mail; this is the first year we have included this section, which is described in the APS' fifth edition of the Manual of Philatelic Judging. Corner cards are envelopes with printed return address information on them, in the upper left corner. I assume that the term came from the fact that the information is similar to that found on a simple business card. Corner cards are highly collectible. A friend of mine collects postal history related to small-town newspapers and mining in British Columbia. Many of his covers, some of them incredibly rare and very expensive, are corner cards. Corner cards obviously morph into illustrated mail when typographers and artists and engravers decide to get fancy. Deciding if a cover represents illustrated mail or is "just" a corner card is subjective, like so much of philately. Bob |
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