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Airmail etiquette labels are a simple and usually inexpensive side collection you can be on the lookout for when searching through those dollar boxes.

A nice primer: http://www.cinderellas.info/columns/Air ... index.html

As usual, I'm no expert on the subject and always look forward to someone who has a more in-depth knowledge of the subject to jump in.

But, just like any kind of label, I do like to have them tied to the postcard, just in case someone had some extras laying around, and thought that would be a fun way to get rid of them

So to show how common they can be, these below all came out of one small box I got the other day.















Ignore the two without labels, they sneaked in when I wasn't looking.

So keep on the lookout for different ones you may like. They can be fun, easy and not cost a lot.

And, if you already have some you like, throw them up here to share.

Thanks & good hunting.

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I dabbled with the idea of collecting airmail etiquettes, but have too many collections going as it is. I set the same criteria, that I wanted labels tied by a postmark, otherwise someone could have come along and added it later.

I get some 'odd' combos in my incoming mail lately--an HK airmail label on a letter from the UK, a Canadian label on a packet from Thailand.

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Hi Patg

Sounds like a good idea and as you say quite a cheap sideline.

A good way to get some modern ones from around the world would be to join in the fun at the cover exchange thread.

If you join us ask for the etiquettes to be tied to the cover.

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Good luck with your collection

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=26290

But this is where stamp collecting morphs into real philately. For a cover with an untied etiquette you have the sum paid for the postage, the country it was going to, and in most cases a readable date. Research the appropriate postal rate at the time. If your cover matches the airmail rate the etiquette is almost certainly part of the original cover.

Airmail etiquettes as a single collection, why not

But better still are airmail etiquettes used on flight covers

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Tony

Don't you just hate it when you've almost finished a very long post and just wanted to close another window, but you hit the wrong button, and close the window your post is open in.
Anyway, this one is shorter.

I won't go as far as to call it a collection quite yet, but more of an accidental side accumulation










Sometimes I'll keep nice hand stamps.



And advertising.


Or you could just scratch it on with crayon or pencil


This one has two strikes against it (no stamp & label not tied), but I like it anyway; nice label, matching corner card, "Airmail" in lower part of cancel (not clear in glare) & IATA logo on back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_code


"But this is where stamp collecting morphs into real philately. For a cover with an untied etiquette you have the sum paid for the postage, the country it was going to, and in most cases a readable date. Research the appropriate postal rate at the time. If your cover matches the airmail rate the etiquette is almost certainly part of the original cover."


For DRB: Sounds reasonable. But there are large quantities of these labels laying around and it would be very easy for someone (crook or joker) to apply them to whatever cover they found. And like untied postage stamps on covers, there is always that doubt they didn't make the same trip.

I'm thinking (guessing) that if the postal did not have one of the three (airmail stamp, label or written by 'Air mail, or bi-color border) it would have been thrown in the surface delivery bin, even if it had the correct postage for air.

Best to all & more later,
patg

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"I don't have a lot - But I like what I got"

I'm thinking (guessing) that if I'd paid an extra 865,000 dinars on my 1,805,000 dinar Zone 7 postcard I'd probably make sure that I'd been given my free Airmail label and stuck it on good and hard so it did not get thrown in the surface delivery bin, even if it had the correct postage for air!

OK, Yugoslavia in July 1993 is not entirely typical; but you get the point.

DRB:
Sorry, but this is not the serious morphing thread . This is the Happy Stamp collector sharing thread.
You know "I'll show you mine - you show me yours"


Scans of really NICE looking stamps & covers etc.
Add yours! » Share with others here your NICE looking stamp and cover images etc

And the POINT - "Airmail etiquette - A fun inexpensive collection."

Also, just for a tiny observation, it doesn't hurt to have a friendly salutation, maybe a few Smilies here and there to show intent maybe even an over the top "Thanks!, and have a good day. (even if you don't mean it )

But that's what's great about this Board, you are free to go and start a serious discussion about "morphing - dinars & making sure you got your free label"

Best wishes & thanks to all. I call this episode - "The English Invasion"

The first one must have been sent on a half-price day. The second one (piece from a small parcel?)was caught & had to go by row boat.


The 9's have it.



Odds & ends



Mine are pretty plain, Let's see if there is some variety out there.

Best to all,
patg

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"I don't have a lot - But I like what I got"

patg - you have failed to note that I am British and therefore wholly prohibited from having FUN in any form whatsoever.

And as for smiling faces ... well, really!

However, since you have exposed some of yours to me, I could hardly be so gauche as not to flash you a couple of mine (none of them cancel-tied):

DRB:
Thanks - That's the spirit!
A lot that I have aren't tied either. It seems to be all about luck if not placed right next to the stamp.
Looks like your first two may be first flights? (I suffer from mono-linguistics)
And, do I detect a Yugo-centric direction to your interests?

Anyway, I'm off to the mountains for a few day's. Will share more on return.

Best wishes & good (stamp) hunting this weekend; if you can get away from the Olympics for a few hours

patg

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"I don't have a lot - But I like what I got"

Patg: At the risk of lapsing back into Boring Old Fart mode, it isn't luck so much as machinery. If the etiquette is near the stamp and horizontal to it then it will probably get cancelled if it goes through a machine cancellor.

But if the post is hand-franked it almost certainly won't be, because no Post Office that I know of has a policy to cancel etiquettes - why should they? Etiquettes are free, so there is no incentive to stop their re-use.

Anyway, have a good time in the mountains.

OK. Don't write in. Mozambique in the 1930s. But I don't know any OTHERS.