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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

 

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ikeyPikey
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22 Jun 2019
03:03:14pm
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Event covers have been created for all manner of events:

Philatelic ... club meetings, exhibitions, the works

Hobbies ... covers issued by our brethren coin collectors, auto/rail modelers, et al

Postal ... branch post office openings, closings, first days

Terrestrial ... railway/highway first runs, last runs, re-runs

Naval ... launchings, deployments, homecomings, circumnavigations, ports-of-call, polar (anything)

Aviation ... first flights, airfield openings, races, competitions, exhibitions

Space ... (too many micro-categories to count, let alone list)

Olympics ... so many stamps that there must be a zillion covers

Jamborees ... surely the merit badge means that there are plenty of jamboree event covers?

Each of these categories has its own websites, specialty societies, literature, checklists, forum threads.

But what about the singularities?

What about events that folks did not even know were events?

For example: institution anniversaries, civil war re-enactments, demolitions ... do I know?

I'll start with (keywords) cover events Backgammon pmk 19800802 PH Baguio City

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Q/ Do you have any Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (who is well aware that this is a shameless lemons-into-lemonade post, but what else could I do with that cover?)

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23 Jun 2019
08:52:53am
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

Here's one....?

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I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show

quite a few in your 'category'!!

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23 Jun 2019
09:44:37am
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

This is a great thread topic. I don't have any but I bet there are some real far out commemorative covers.

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Linus
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23 Jun 2019
10:31:30am
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

ikeyPikey - This cover is for you!

Linus Happy

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23 Jun 2019
10:33:11am
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Forget the on-topic cover, Randy, you've got a postmark from Lucerne Mines, 2010 population 937 !

Cheers,

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23 Jun 2019
10:49:16am
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

"I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show quite a few in your 'category'!!"



Challenge accepted!

These are all currently available covers in the "US Events - post-1950" category on BuckaCover. All these are priced at just 60c each.
https://www.buckacover.com/covers/search.php?code=useventpost50

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Plus 1162 more priced from 60c to $1.50

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23 Jun 2019
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23 Jun 2019
12:37:24pm

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Heres one for the corn dog fans(i never ate one) from an old Stampoffers buddy!Image Not Found

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23 Jun 2019
03:44:30pm
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

Wait a sec....are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans. While definitely cool, do the measure up to the OP focus of "event cover"?

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23 Jun 2019
05:12:44pm
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"... are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans ..."



Well, there's another fine slippery slope you've gotten me on to.



Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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30 Jun 2019
03:27:27pm

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Ikey i knew i had this one somewhere and i am pretty sure it qualifies...what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !Image Not Found

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30 Jun 2019
07:25:12pm
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01 Jul 2019
06:35:32am
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

Oklahoma and Italians culture?

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01 Jul 2019
04:39:00pm
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Tarpon Springs FL hosts an annual Greek Festival ... do I know how they got there?

Okay, probably one-by-one.

... St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tarpon Springs has organized for the past 113 years.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (whose postcard of that festival is supposed to be in his Minor Festivals & Parades sub-pile but ...)

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01 Jul 2019
07:12:34pm
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

"what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !

Oklahoma and Italians culture?"



Actually, Oklahoma has a substantial population of people of Italian heritage. They are mostly located in Pittsburg, Latimer, and Coal counties where coal was mined in the late 19th century. McAlester is the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

See this link: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=IT002

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01 Jul 2019
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I did not know about the coal mines in Oklahoma...i know my mothers people the Tyroleans did not gather in large cities like the Southern Italians. They could always find work in places like Michigan,Colorado, Arizona..anything to do with tunneling or mining.

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01 Jul 2019
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Phil - Same thing in Iowa, which had coal mining from about 1870 to 1940. The Italians migrated to Iowa by the thousands to work the coal mines in central and south central Iowa. The mines are long gone now, but today, we have a large Italian Heritage Festival annually in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. They block the street off and the food vendors are fabulous. I attended it a couple years ago with my daughter, and we watched a chef with a thick Italian accent make pasta with red sauce from scratch in a cooking demo. Free steaming bowls were given out afterward, it was so good!

Linus

(Apologies to ikeyP for taking your thread way off track into the coal mines)

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02 Jul 2019
12:09:26am
re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

"... (Apologies to ikeyP for taking your thread way off track into the coal mines) ..."



Post a cover of a mine closing, mine disaster anniversary, whatever, and we'll be good, mate.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (the last guy on earth to object to a thread getting interesting)
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03 Jul 2019
03:56:37pm

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Here's an event! My first Granddaughter's birth!

And fixing to do another dozen cards... my daughter is due with twins this month!

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ikeyPikey

22 Jun 2019
03:03:14pm

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Event covers have been created for all manner of events:

Philatelic ... club meetings, exhibitions, the works

Hobbies ... covers issued by our brethren coin collectors, auto/rail modelers, et al

Postal ... branch post office openings, closings, first days

Terrestrial ... railway/highway first runs, last runs, re-runs

Naval ... launchings, deployments, homecomings, circumnavigations, ports-of-call, polar (anything)

Aviation ... first flights, airfield openings, races, competitions, exhibitions

Space ... (too many micro-categories to count, let alone list)

Olympics ... so many stamps that there must be a zillion covers

Jamborees ... surely the merit badge means that there are plenty of jamboree event covers?

Each of these categories has its own websites, specialty societies, literature, checklists, forum threads.

But what about the singularities?

What about events that folks did not even know were events?

For example: institution anniversaries, civil war re-enactments, demolitions ... do I know?

I'll start with (keywords) cover events Backgammon pmk 19800802 PH Baguio City

Image Not Found

Q/ Do you have any Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (who is well aware that this is a shameless lemons-into-lemonade post, but what else could I do with that cover?)

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23 Jun 2019
08:52:53am

re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

Here's one....?

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I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show

quite a few in your 'category'!!

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23 Jun 2019
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This is a great thread topic. I don't have any but I bet there are some real far out commemorative covers.

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23 Jun 2019
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

ikeyPikey - This cover is for you!

Linus Happy

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23 Jun 2019
10:33:11am

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Forget the on-topic cover, Randy, you've got a postmark from Lucerne Mines, 2010 population 937 !

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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23 Jun 2019
10:49:16am

re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

"I'd be willing to bet that Roy could show quite a few in your 'category'!!"



Challenge accepted!

These are all currently available covers in the "US Events - post-1950" category on BuckaCover. All these are priced at just 60c each.
https://www.buckacover.com/covers/search.php?code=useventpost50

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Plus 1162 more priced from 60c to $1.50

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23 Jun 2019
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23 Jun 2019
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

Wait a sec....are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans. While definitely cool, do the measure up to the OP focus of "event cover"?

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23 Jun 2019
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"... are we drifting far afield. I see several machine slogans ..."



Well, there's another fine slippery slope you've gotten me on to.



Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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Ikey i knew i had this one somewhere and i am pretty sure it qualifies...what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !Image Not Found

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01 Jul 2019
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

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01 Jul 2019
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

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Tarpon Springs FL hosts an annual Greek Festival ... do I know how they got there?

Okay, probably one-by-one.

... St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tarpon Springs has organized for the past 113 years.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (whose postcard of that festival is supposed to be in his Minor Festivals & Parades sub-pile but ...)

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01 Jul 2019
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

"what an Italian fest is doing in Mcalester Oklahoma i have no idea !

Oklahoma and Italians culture?"



Actually, Oklahoma has a substantial population of people of Italian heritage. They are mostly located in Pittsburg, Latimer, and Coal counties where coal was mined in the late 19th century. McAlester is the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

See this link: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=IT002

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I did not know about the coal mines in Oklahoma...i know my mothers people the Tyroleans did not gather in large cities like the Southern Italians. They could always find work in places like Michigan,Colorado, Arizona..anything to do with tunneling or mining.

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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

Phil - Same thing in Iowa, which had coal mining from about 1870 to 1940. The Italians migrated to Iowa by the thousands to work the coal mines in central and south central Iowa. The mines are long gone now, but today, we have a large Italian Heritage Festival annually in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. They block the street off and the food vendors are fabulous. I attended it a couple years ago with my daughter, and we watched a chef with a thick Italian accent make pasta with red sauce from scratch in a cooking demo. Free steaming bowls were given out afterward, it was so good!

Linus

(Apologies to ikeyP for taking your thread way off track into the coal mines)

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02 Jul 2019
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re: Event Covers ... for events that folks did not even know were events

"... (Apologies to ikeyP for taking your thread way off track into the coal mines) ..."



Post a cover of a mine closing, mine disaster anniversary, whatever, and we'll be good, mate.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (the last guy on earth to object to a thread getting interesting)
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03 Jul 2019
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Here's an event! My first Granddaughter's birth!

And fixing to do another dozen cards... my daughter is due with twins this month!

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