Air Mail Postal History
August 11th, 2007 . by AdministratorAs you know airmail event covers collecting is a wide open field and an extension of stamp collecting. A “cover” is an envelope that has seen postal service. Many airmail event covers have “cachets,” a rubber stamped or printed impression or label placed on the cover descriptive of the event for which it was mailed.
Routes, rates, cities, states, countries, first days, special events, pilot autographs, and markings are all desirable areas of cover collecting. Some covers may be flown, while others may note a special event, such as an airport dedication. Covers for your collection may be found in dealer stocks at stamp exhibitions and bourses, by mail from established dealers, in club and public philatelic auctions, in exchange with other collectors, and through ads in the philatelic press.