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  • First Non-Stop Flight Cover

    Date
    1990
  • Patriotic Cover

    Date
    1942
  • Cover

    Date
    1948
  • Cover addressed "In Care of Commanding Officer..."

    Date
    January 27, 1943
  • SAS first flight cover from Stockholm to Osaka

    Date
    1995
  • 10c Washington on cover

    Date
    March 13, 1851
  • $2.40 Moon Landing issue first day cover

    Date
    July 20, 1989
  • First ocean to ocean submarine mail service cover

    Date
    1919
  • Jerusalem to Zurich Switzerland cover with postmark on used stamps on album page

    Date
    August 29, 1924
  • Letter to David Walters from Rachel Walters

    Date
    June 24, 1863
  • Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards

    Date
    May 24, 1839
  • Folded letter from Paris office at Place de la Bourse

    Date
    January 10, 1871
  • Facing slip on album page

    Date
    February 8, 1949
  • 29c National Postal Museum single on official business penalty cover

    Date
    July 30, 1994
  • Graf Zeppelin Swiss Flight postcard

    Date
    1929
  • 5c Yellowstone first day cover with signature

    Date
    July 30, 1934
  • National Air Week Album

    Date
    1938
  • Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover

    Date
    June 6, 1945
  • Union Patriotic Cover

    Date
    1861-1865
  • Haifa double ring postmark cover on album page

    Date
    March 2, 1921
  • album page with cover and letterhead sent from FPO 24 Samakh on album page

    Date
    November 5, 1936
  • World War II Patriotic cover

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    January 25, 1944
  • Owney cachet cover created by Helen Fowler

    Date
    2011
  • Airmail Palestine cover on album page

    Date
    September 2, 1946

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