The circle appears to be orange in color, but it is a shade of red. The space it much too small to have it written within the circle. It was probably awkward as the circle was where the address normally is placed. FebruI have only seen one other envelope with this design.The markings state "Flown by Courtesy of Vt. SeptemAn early airmail envelope before the colors of red and blue became standardized for airmail envelopes.MaAnother Roessler envelope produced for the Lindburgh covers he serviced.This envelope and the one following are both made by the well known cover dealer A.The cover was mailed a day after the two-day celebration and has a "VIA AIR MAIL" and a flag sticker applied to it. It is most likely an air mail envelope as there would be no purpose in creating a design for a regular mail envelope. SeptemIt is rather ironic that the first envelope I illustrate does not have any text on it indicating it is an air mail envelope.It would be great to be able to identify those designs that did not have identifying text on the back of the envelopes. If anyone can provide more information on any of the designs it would be appreciated and I will post what I think is relevant. There may be inscriptions on the reverse of some of the envelopes, giving information as to who designed them, but if I do not have the cover I do not have that information.Īt this point I have illustrated a few foreign Airmail envelopes as well as they are generally quite different from ours. While I own some of these covers, others I do not and either copied the images off of the Internet, or was sent them by other collectors. Please note that I am not a dealer and do not have items for sale. It is surprising how much of the printed envelope design one does not see in the images on the left.
They are the same envelopes with the non-printed text and images removed, and the covers "cleaned" up. At the time, I had no idea there had been so many airmail envelope designs available to the public, and how attractive many of them are.Īll of the images portrayed show the original cover on the left, and a digitally reworked image on the right. I needed a break from my major collecting interests and concentrated on a side-line interest that involved event covers from the 1930s. I created this page due to my astonishment at the number of varieties of printed airmail envelopes used in the United States during the 1920s through the 1970s, and out of boredom.
That is why many of these fantastic envelopes still exist.
Those envelopes used by stamp collectors had additional cachets applied to them and are considered collectible.
The reason most of the illustrations you will view are on philatelic covers is that people did not keep their ordinary mail. They were distinctive to aid the postal employees in sorting the air mail from the regular mail when it was received for processing. They do not realize that Air Mail was a somewhat new phenomenon and that these envelopes were largely created for the public to purchase. While that is true for the Special Flight envelopes, it is not the case for the majority of the envelopes. Many people are under the impression that the envelopes illustrated on these pages were created for stamp collectors and the making of covers.
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