ISSUE 172 - April 4, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
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High Flying Fourth Bureaus
Introduction, Fractional and Low Values (1/2¢ - 4¢)
by Steve Turechek
Have you ever stumbled upon something that did not exactly fit within the boundaries of your collection, but was so intriguing you had to have it anyway? I like airpost covers, and thus have spent years poring through the American Airmail Society's six-volume catalog, adding covers to my collection as I could, always on the lookout for something unusual.
A couple of years ago at OKPEX I ran across a dealer who had a selection of commercial airmail covers for sale. Now these were not your normal, garden variety flight covers. Many of the covers did not even have airmail stamps affixed. I thumbed through his box and landed upon one franked with a . . .
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