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04 Nov 2010
09:02:40am
I figured I'd start something a little different and fun for a post.

I'm not sure how other feel about privacy, I'l a little more easy going than most so I'll share. As I'm cataloging some duplicates, I stumbled across a stamp that was issued on the day I was born.

1971 6c Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Issue Date: January 26, 1971
Scott Catalog # 1424

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04 Nov 2010
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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

I collect FDC's of stamps issued on my birthdate. I try to get all the different cachets. Check this website if you would like to take a look (you need to click on the First Day Cover link)...
http://home.comcast.net/~parkinlot/

Here is the stamp issued on the day I was born...

Brazil
Issue Date June 26, 1962
Scott Catalogue Number 940

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04 Nov 2010
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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

And mine:

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It's the Allied Nations issue of January 14, 1943. On the same day the stamp was issued, the Casablanca Conference opened.

From Wikipedia:

The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the European strategy of the Allies during World War II. Present were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had also been invited but declined to attend in light of the ongoing conflict at Stalingrad.

General Charles de Gaulle had initially refused to come but changed his mind when Churchill threatened to recognize Henri Giraud as head of the Free French Forces in his place. Giraud was also present at Casablanca, and there was notable tension between the two men during the talks.

American president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill The conference's Casablanca Declaration called for the Allies to seek the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers. It also called for Allied aid to the Soviet Union, the invasion of Sicily and Italy, and the recognition of joint leadership of the Free French by de Gaulle and Giraud. All the terms were agreed upon.

Roosevelt presented the results of the conference to the American people in a radio address on February 12, 1943. Also decided during the Casablanca Conference was that there would be no "across channel invasion" in 1943. Instead of invading Europe across the English Channel, an invasion into Sicily and then Italy would take place."

If I had been born just 13 days later, that day would have marked the halfway point between the beginning of the Second World War (taking Germany's invasion of Poland as the beginning and the surrender of Japan as the end).

"My" stamp is not spectacular but its art deco "Allegory of Victory" design has grown on me. There apparently was not a rate that called for two cents postage, At least I've never found a cover franked with just one stamp. Normally, it seems to have been combined with other stamps to make up the postage for higher rated items. Perhaps someone could expand my knowledge of U.S. postage rates at that time.

Bob


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05 Nov 2010
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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

I've browsed through 2 volumes of the Scott catalogue and have yet to find a stamp that was issued on my birthday.

In fact most of the stamps I've found that were issued in 1940 have just the year shown.

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05 Nov 2010
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Bob;

Here's the information I found doing a search on US postage rates.

From 1933 to 1958 the first class postage rate in the USA was 3 cents. This rate continued until 7/31/58.

From 1883 to 1932 the first class postage rate in the USA was 2 cents.

I have no idea what the 2c stamp would have been used for in 1942 other than for additional postage over and above the 3c rate. This is just a guess on my part.

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Tom

05 Nov 2010
07:38:28am
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US did not issue a stamp on my birthday which bums me out because it was the 100th anniv of the Penny Black. GB did issue a set comemorating the 100th. Wasn't the 2cents for third class mail???
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05 Nov 2010
09:03:51am
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Thank you for that research, Liz. Where did you find it? Tom's question is valid. I have a wartime cover from Britain to the U.S. It was not sealed (third class?), and is franked with a 1d stamp, which would be roughly equivalent to a U.S. 2-cent stamp, and I assume that U.S. and British postal rates were similar.

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05 Nov 2010
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seems like I remember mailing Christmas Cards for 2cents in the forties (unsealed) could be wrong my memory isn't what it used to be and it was never very good. Tom C.

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05 Nov 2010
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Bob - I just searched for 'USA Postage Rates in 1942'.

Some of the results of this search were;

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/postage.html

http://www.akdart.com/postrate.html

http://www.worldwide-postal-rates.com/books/books_main.html#US

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07 Nov 2010
11:52:48am
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Liz,
I guess what you have found out is the only good event of 1940 was your birth day and for that we are all greatful!

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07 Nov 2010
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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

Liz,

Thank you for the links. I've saved them in Evernote (nifty web site, take a look at http://www.evernote.com).

I've always been a bit puzzled about why many collectors are so concerned about postal rates. If a cover has more postage than necessary, what's the fuss? For convenience, I often put more postage than necessary on letters; I'd rather spend a bit more on postage than stand in line for 20 minutes at the post office. At the same time, it's interesting that there may have been no need "my" two-cent stamp to have been issued.

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02 Dec 2010
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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

I suppose we all overpay postage at times to be able to use some interesting combination to a friend. The rate from the US to our neighbor to the horth is about $0.68, but I often just affix two local rate $0.44 stamps such as the recent Negro League baseball pair as a matter of convenience.
But collectors obsess over different things.
Those who collect particular stamps on cover often seek out the stamp being used during its period of validity. They do not want the cover that was put together years later when the stamp in question was consigned to some dealer's discount postage bin.
Others could not care less about that aspect of usage. I have several international correspondents who trade envelopes that consentrate more on the attractiveness of the set of stamps used on their mail and ignore any relationship to the current postagte rate.
Interestingly some of the same stampers who will disparage a stamp used on cover three weeks after the rate was changed will get all excited about a cover that was inadvertantly used three weeks before its scheduled issue date.
Once again that is all up to the collector and what it is that he, or she, thinks is important.
I have met people who collect foot long strips of barbed wire and others for whom bananna stickers are exciting. There is really no explanation for why one person collects matchbox cars and another enjoys some obscure aspect of postal service.

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02 Dec 2010
08:47:14am
re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

Here is an example of a special kind of "birthday cover" illustrated in a discussion in the Machin Stamp Forum.
http://stamp-collector.co.uk/MachinForum/viewtopic.php?t=497&highlight=birthplace

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On New Years day ? Probably not too many !Happy

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24 Jul 2013
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Yes, but I'm not posting my birthday. Sorry, I just don't trust identity thieves, and anyone can see these posts.

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24 Jul 2013
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I was born on a Saturday, so that limits the chance of one or more stamps being issued on that day considerably.

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24 Jul 2013
10:57:19am
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There was only one stamp issued the year I was born and definitely not on my birthday. The second world war was on in Europe and Japan attacked days after I was born. The government had more on it's mind than issue a new stamp. I really would like one however. I have one for each of my children who were born years later. Pure luck on those.

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27 Jul 2013
05:29:49pm
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No chance for me. I was born on a sunday.Sad

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27 Jul 2013
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Does anybody of a website where one can put in his birthday and find out if any stamps were issued on your birthday? Big Hug

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01 Aug 2013
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Sure there is philb, French Southern & Antarctic Territories tends tio issue most of their stamps on January 1st Laughing

These 2 stamps were issued on my 14th birthday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National History Museum of Denmark. Nerd


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01 Aug 2013
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What I have had trouble finding is my b-day: July 4th (any year, any country...). Cancels are easier to find than stamp issues--I even have a couple US July 4 cancels.

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01 Aug 2013
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" .... Yes, but I'm not posting my birthday. Sorry, I just don't trust identity thieves, and anyone can see these posts. ...."

Fortunately it turns out that the "...handle ..." I use on-line corresponds exactly to my date of birth; 11/22/'39.
Isn't that a coincidence ???

JFK was shot by Oswald on 11/22/1963.

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04 Nov 2010
09:02:40am

I figured I'd start something a little different and fun for a post.

I'm not sure how other feel about privacy, I'l a little more easy going than most so I'll share. As I'm cataloging some duplicates, I stumbled across a stamp that was issued on the day I was born.

1971 6c Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Issue Date: January 26, 1971
Scott Catalog # 1424

dude

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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

I collect FDC's of stamps issued on my birthdate. I try to get all the different cachets. Check this website if you would like to take a look (you need to click on the First Day Cover link)...
http://home.comcast.net/~parkinlot/

Here is the stamp issued on the day I was born...

Brazil
Issue Date June 26, 1962
Scott Catalogue Number 940

brazil

(Message edited by parkinlot on November 04, 2010)

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04 Nov 2010
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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

And mine:

birthday stamp


It's the Allied Nations issue of January 14, 1943. On the same day the stamp was issued, the Casablanca Conference opened.

From Wikipedia:

The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the European strategy of the Allies during World War II. Present were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had also been invited but declined to attend in light of the ongoing conflict at Stalingrad.

General Charles de Gaulle had initially refused to come but changed his mind when Churchill threatened to recognize Henri Giraud as head of the Free French Forces in his place. Giraud was also present at Casablanca, and there was notable tension between the two men during the talks.

American president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill The conference's Casablanca Declaration called for the Allies to seek the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers. It also called for Allied aid to the Soviet Union, the invasion of Sicily and Italy, and the recognition of joint leadership of the Free French by de Gaulle and Giraud. All the terms were agreed upon.

Roosevelt presented the results of the conference to the American people in a radio address on February 12, 1943. Also decided during the Casablanca Conference was that there would be no "across channel invasion" in 1943. Instead of invading Europe across the English Channel, an invasion into Sicily and then Italy would take place."

If I had been born just 13 days later, that day would have marked the halfway point between the beginning of the Second World War (taking Germany's invasion of Poland as the beginning and the surrender of Japan as the end).

"My" stamp is not spectacular but its art deco "Allegory of Victory" design has grown on me. There apparently was not a rate that called for two cents postage, At least I've never found a cover franked with just one stamp. Normally, it seems to have been combined with other stamps to make up the postage for higher rated items. Perhaps someone could expand my knowledge of U.S. postage rates at that time.

Bob


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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

I've browsed through 2 volumes of the Scott catalogue and have yet to find a stamp that was issued on my birthday.

In fact most of the stamps I've found that were issued in 1940 have just the year shown.

Liz

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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

Bob;

Here's the information I found doing a search on US postage rates.

From 1933 to 1958 the first class postage rate in the USA was 3 cents. This rate continued until 7/31/58.

From 1883 to 1932 the first class postage rate in the USA was 2 cents.

I have no idea what the 2c stamp would have been used for in 1942 other than for additional postage over and above the 3c rate. This is just a guess on my part.

Liz

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Tom

05 Nov 2010
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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

US did not issue a stamp on my birthday which bums me out because it was the 100th anniv of the Penny Black. GB did issue a set comemorating the 100th. Wasn't the 2cents for third class mail???
Tom C.

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05 Nov 2010
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Thank you for that research, Liz. Where did you find it? Tom's question is valid. I have a wartime cover from Britain to the U.S. It was not sealed (third class?), and is franked with a 1d stamp, which would be roughly equivalent to a U.S. 2-cent stamp, and I assume that U.S. and British postal rates were similar.

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seems like I remember mailing Christmas Cards for 2cents in the forties (unsealed) could be wrong my memory isn't what it used to be and it was never very good. Tom C.

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Bob - I just searched for 'USA Postage Rates in 1942'.

Some of the results of this search were;

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/postage.html

http://www.akdart.com/postrate.html

http://www.worldwide-postal-rates.com/books/books_main.html#US

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07 Nov 2010
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Liz,
I guess what you have found out is the only good event of 1940 was your birth day and for that we are all greatful!

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07 Nov 2010
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Liz,

Thank you for the links. I've saved them in Evernote (nifty web site, take a look at http://www.evernote.com).

I've always been a bit puzzled about why many collectors are so concerned about postal rates. If a cover has more postage than necessary, what's the fuss? For convenience, I often put more postage than necessary on letters; I'd rather spend a bit more on postage than stand in line for 20 minutes at the post office. At the same time, it's interesting that there may have been no need "my" two-cent stamp to have been issued.

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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

I suppose we all overpay postage at times to be able to use some interesting combination to a friend. The rate from the US to our neighbor to the horth is about $0.68, but I often just affix two local rate $0.44 stamps such as the recent Negro League baseball pair as a matter of convenience.
But collectors obsess over different things.
Those who collect particular stamps on cover often seek out the stamp being used during its period of validity. They do not want the cover that was put together years later when the stamp in question was consigned to some dealer's discount postage bin.
Others could not care less about that aspect of usage. I have several international correspondents who trade envelopes that consentrate more on the attractiveness of the set of stamps used on their mail and ignore any relationship to the current postagte rate.
Interestingly some of the same stampers who will disparage a stamp used on cover three weeks after the rate was changed will get all excited about a cover that was inadvertantly used three weeks before its scheduled issue date.
Once again that is all up to the collector and what it is that he, or she, thinks is important.
I have met people who collect foot long strips of barbed wire and others for whom bananna stickers are exciting. There is really no explanation for why one person collects matchbox cars and another enjoys some obscure aspect of postal service.

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re: Was there a stamp issued on your birthday?

Here is an example of a special kind of "birthday cover" illustrated in a discussion in the Machin Stamp Forum.
http://stamp-collector.co.uk/MachinForum/viewtopic.php?t=497&highlight=birthplace

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Yes, but I'm not posting my birthday. Sorry, I just don't trust identity thieves, and anyone can see these posts.

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There was only one stamp issued the year I was born and definitely not on my birthday. The second world war was on in Europe and Japan attacked days after I was born. The government had more on it's mind than issue a new stamp. I really would like one however. I have one for each of my children who were born years later. Pure luck on those.

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No chance for me. I was born on a sunday.Sad

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Does anybody of a website where one can put in his birthday and find out if any stamps were issued on your birthday? Big Hug

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Sure there is philb, French Southern & Antarctic Territories tends tio issue most of their stamps on January 1st Laughing

These 2 stamps were issued on my 14th birthday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National History Museum of Denmark. Nerd


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01 Aug 2013
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What I have had trouble finding is my b-day: July 4th (any year, any country...). Cancels are easier to find than stamp issues--I even have a couple US July 4 cancels.

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" .... Yes, but I'm not posting my birthday. Sorry, I just don't trust identity thieves, and anyone can see these posts. ...."

Fortunately it turns out that the "...handle ..." I use on-line corresponds exactly to my date of birth; 11/22/'39.
Isn't that a coincidence ???

JFK was shot by Oswald on 11/22/1963.

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