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One of my collecting interests is "Covers that traveled unusual routes".
When I describe these, most collectors immediately think of "mis-directed" covers -- ones that went where they weren't supposed to, or chased a traveller or military addressee all over the planet - but that's not what interests me.
I like the items that went where they were supposed to, but by a route that, with today's transportation, is not intuitive. Sometimes these (apparently) strange routes are the result of wartime disruptions. Other times, they can be due to the early versions of "hub and spoke" transport. Here's an example of one of those:
Sent from Brazil (I still haven't been able to decipher the town -- any help appreciated) to Haiti in 1924.
Note the routing it took:
Brazil: July 2(?)
Barbados (!!): August 20
New York: Sept 7
Port au Prince Haiti: Sept 17
On a map:
It was a lot closer to its destination (a month earlier) when it was in Barbados!
Roy
P.S. Like this stuff? Let me know -- I've got others!
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re: Covers that travelled unusual routes
Here's another one.
This is actually a page from my exhibit on Stamporama of "Very Cool Covers" - an exhibit intended to show non-collectors of covers what it is that cover collectors find interesting about them. Here's the exhibit.
Roy
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re: Covers that travelled unusual routes
Roy,
Please share more! These are fascinating!
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re: Covers that travelled unusual routes
Not sure if this one qualifies:
Local mail from one address in Stafford Springs, CT, to another address in the same town. Processed (cancelled) at the mail factory in Hartford, Connecticut, August 18, 1985.
Transit the next day in Orlando, Florida, August 19, 1985,
Back in the 1980,s,before internet, I sent away for a 30 + kilo box lot from Denmark(advertised in Linns)Some of you might remember those ads,
I wish I would have kept the wrapper but it was falling apart by the time I got the box, It had ended up in Columbia South America instead of British Columbia Canada and it took 6 months before it arrived at the Vancouver airport.
More in line with Arno's cover and certainly more plebian than any of Roy's but the routing, aside from being wrong, makes no sense. One would need to overshoot NYC, its intended destination, by 643 miles (1,028 km). There are direct flights between Copenhagen (where it was cancelled, although the sender lives in Oegstgeest) and Indianapolis; but perhaps Dutch command of American geography is as pitiful as most Americans'.
David
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re: Covers that travelled unusual routes
I have one somewhat ratty cover that attracted my eye at a stamp show a few years ago, that was mailed from Bergen, Norway in early 1940 to a Lars Jensen who lived at an apartment just one or two blocks from where my grand parents lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
It travelled east because of the hostilities between Germany and Great Britain, crossing the Soviet Union to Vladavostok and then across the Pacific by ship to San Francisco and further across the US to its destination.
Unfortunately my father's family were not long lived so I never discovered if Lars was a cousin or uncle, but perhaps now that the 1940 census is open to the public I will find the cover and see if I can make a connection.
These things are so very interesting.
Charlie Jensen
Lecanto, Florida
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amsd, your cover is not postmarked in Copenhagen, Denmark. That would read København. Also the term "post code" has never been used in Danish postmarks. That would read "postnummer"
I gave the cover away several years ago to a cover collector, but I had sent for a sample issue of Gibbons' monthly stamp magazine. I forgot about my request, figuring that they either did not get my card, or were not going to send a sample to the USA due to the postage costs. Well, it finally did arrive six months later. It had an ancillary marking "Missent to Thailand". So, UK to Thailand to Texas.
I saw the resurrection of an old thread. I haven't really researched this one. Here's one that went all over the place. It started in Maine on July 29th of '05 and ended up in Lucerne by way of London then Forwarded to Paris and Geneva.
Front of cover
Front of cover rotated 180 degrees (to read postmarks)
the back of cover
back of cover rotated 180 degrees
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