Nice little selection !
We will soon be commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first powered flight, Decemeber 17th 1903. An historic day.
The first label commemorates 50 years and was produced (most likely) in 1953. The design is taken from a poster issued in the same year an original copy of which is in the National Air and Space Museum Poster collection.
On the poster, the circle represents the moon with a celebration banner around it. The two planes represent the Wright Brothers and modern jet airliners (modern then of course !).
The second item is an air mail etiquette, quite common I believe and most likely privately produced. (But not by an airline company). The sort you may once have found in a good stationers shop.
The third label looks like part of something (air mail connected) but I can't put my finger on it.
And so to the last one and the most interesting, though hard to decipher.
I would date the label, if that's what it is, around 1940-50 and it appears to advertise the Star routes which the US Postal service had set up in 1845 as an expansion of their limited delivery service. The 'Aerial' part came later, at a guess around the early thirties and was run by private companies or individuals who were given contracts by the US Postal Service.
The joys of Cinderella collecting. One can get totally entrapped in something unimportant and seemingly insignificant.
I never felt like this when I collected Postage stamps !
Back to that third item.
Does the piece have gum. I am guessing not and if that is so, I am almost sure it is cut out from a Postal Card,Postcard or envelope commemorating an 'air' event or such like.
When I have confirmation of the gum bit, I will continue my quest to find it.....and it will be found !
"The first label commemorates 50 years and was produced (most likely) in 1953. The design is taken from a poster issued in the same year an original copy of which is in the National Air and Space Museum Poster collection.
On the poster, the circle represents the moon with a celebration banner around it. The two planes represent the Wright Brothers and modern jet airliners (modern then of course !)."
The image in the first label also happens to be central to the design of the U.S. stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of powered flight (Scott C47; May 29, 1953).
This is only speculation but perhaps the label was issued in conjunction with the American Air Mail Society's 1953 convention in Dayton, Ohio.