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S.B. Airmail
updated: Jan 20, 2013, 9:37 AM
By Edhat Subscriber
I found this old envelope with a stamp from Santa Barbara's first flight of air mail but the date is unclear. Anyone know more about this?
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D8VANILLA
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2013-01-20 10:08 AM |
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Go onto the www.usps.com website and they have all the stamps issued, with pictures and dates.
And, in the old days, the Post Office had a book that the clerks could look up all the stamps that were issued. Doubt if they have that anymore and the younger clerks probably won't know anything about that book!!!
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COMMENT 365496P
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2013-01-20 10:08 AM |
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1936?
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D8VANILLA
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2013-01-20 10:18 AM |
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Sorry, but that postal website is not very user friendly. I've typed in a lot of different searches and the info is too extensive and will take hours to find this info. Might be easier to call a stamp collector shop. Coin & Stamps shop. I also tried searching for that special cancellation. Maybe the SB Historical Society might have some info.
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SBJULES
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2013-01-20 10:54 AM |
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George Bliss lived in Santa Barbara. It looks as if he sent a letter to himself in Kansas City.
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KDEF
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2013-01-20 11:01 AM |
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1936 sounds right to me. Check with Michael Redman at the Historical Museum Library. He might have the information in the Library files.
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COMMENT 365526
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2013-01-20 11:07 AM |
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D8, dating the stamps won't help date the stamp if you follow my drift. The purple "first flight" stamp on the left wouldn't have been a national "issued stamp". It's a one-off made for a single event from a specific location. Hard to tell from the tiny image but it looks like the cancellation is a darker ink than then commemorative stamp. The postage stamps could have been years old at the time. I think I found a lead with a "first air mail" Santa Barbara google search. The flysba site speaks of Earle Ovington and the first service from SB/Goleta starting in 1936 but it isn't specific about the date. That would probably give enough of a start for someone who wants to put in the time to nail it down.
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COMMENT 365630
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2013-01-20 04:15 PM |
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nice find
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COMMENT 365681P
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2013-01-20 08:41 PM |
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Stamp collectors often mailed a letter to themselves to get a copy of the stamped stamp.
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COMMENT 365744P
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2013-01-21 10:38 AM |
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You might call the airport and see if they have a historian or archivist or "auxiliary" (old folks who remember).
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