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Nice item - Singapore is not common

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Collector of Movie related mail, props, etc.
thomasR1atohiodominican.edu

Hi Tom,

Putting your email address in your posts makes it available
to spambots. Bad idea. Maybe one of the moderators can
delete it for you.

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Jay Carrigan
http://www.jaypex.com

Since its in the 'signature' line, one has to change it oneself by going into your profile details.

(By the way, just write [at] for the (at) sign and you can 'fool' the machines while we humans will know what it means.)

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Jay - thanks - hope to see you in columbus in August

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Collector of Movie related mail, props, etc.
thomasR1atohiodominican.edu

thanks for the tip

tom

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Collector of Movie related mail, props, etc.
thomasR1atohiodominican.edu

Here is a video on Collecting Movie Star Fan Mail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBH_q12H24M

also one on philatelic movie props (Civil War movie Cold Mountain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBb6kMZgWvY

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Collector of Movie related mail, props, etc.
thomasR1atohiodominican.edu

A few years ago I stuck a very ordinary cover (no contents ) addressed to Cicely Courtnidge (sic) on Ebay

From memory it fetched about £11 - quite surprising really

Regarding an earlier post about Victor McLaglen - i don't think he was ever regarded as a great actor.But his role in "The Informer" was an acting tour de force and i can thoroughly recommend the film

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Noel Almeida, Night Watchman, Australia Down Under.

Nice cover - see was a beautiful star

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Collector of Movie related mail, props, etc.
thomasR1atohiodominican.edu

Nice cover to Sir Kenneth Clarke



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clark

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Neill

Picked this up in a 5.00 Ebay lot a few years ago. Saw the same seller sell a copy of this same FDC for a couple of hundred a few weeks later. I think its worth a lot closer to what I paid than that person did. I might have been worth it if it had indeed gone to the Prince but i dont think it went to the Prince. But it was sent by one of the highest ranking Moslems in Zanzibar at the time.

An Elanor Roosevelt free frank cover that I have had laying around for years.

Here is one to Franklin D. Roosevelt while he was Governor of New York in Nov. 1932.
He became President of the United States on March 4, 1933.

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I buy too much, can't sell enough - but the information here is priceless.

Over the years, I've accumulated a few "fan mail" covers to Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 40s:


Shirley Temple (addressed to "Hollywood, New York"!!!)


Nelson Eddy at MGM


Sonja Henie at 20th Century Fox

Gene Autry, Republic Studios - GB censored


Tyrone Power, 20th Century Fox - GB censored (note different font used on tape)


Deanna Durbin, Universal Studios

Lastly, a more modern and altogether more sinister character:



Cover addressed to Slobodan Milosevic, "President of the Serb Republic" from Germany to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1994.

I assume the red cachet is some kind of arrival mark, but would appreciate a translation...

There are no markings or address on the reverse of the cover. No return address is unusual for mail sent overseas from Germany, but given the addressee maybe less surprising in this case.

It's a censor mark. PREGLEDANO means "examined". I can't
make out the words at the top of the mark.

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Jay Carrigan
http://www.jaypex.com

Thanks, Jay

Nice.

One to Queen Vicky:



Sent by the Duke of Nemours, second son of King Louis Phillippe of France:



Dated 1844, so an early example of unpaid France-UK registered mail under the 1843 Anglo-French postal convention -- registered letters to, from, or via France were charged two registration fees, one for each of the postal systems they passed through. This meant that the French postage was doubled (in accordance with French practice) and then the standard British inland fee added. Hence charged 2s 3d = 5d British postage + 2×5d French postage + 1s British registration -- no free postage here even though it was between two important royals!

I'm not really a cover collector, but did have one addressed to Goering, and a couple addressed to Hitler.

After a quick check, I still have one addressed to Hitler.

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With kind regards, Jim

Well pop up a scan .. this board is all about VISUALS!

I had to think twice about it. Bob Mitchum ... hmmm



Then I found this one ...



Oh... THAT "Bob" Mitchum

Not really.

Anyone can write a letter to a famous person.

Getting one from a famous person is another matter entirely.

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If it erupts, don't blame me!!

These are always a keepsake but unfortunately they were written to actors/actresses by the million. I doubt whether in fact very many were opened or read by the recipient

As iomoon says, one FROM a famous actor (if real) is another thing altogether. Some rarely come on the market as that particular actor/actress just didn't write much at all.

If they were famous, it's more likely that their secretary typed up a letter and they signed it (and I'll bet there were standard blah, blah, blah sentences in their letters as well).

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Tony

You guys know how to KILL the Dream off quickly,

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You've probably never heard of him, but here is free frank from George Paulett Scrope.



Famous geologist.

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I picked this up on ebay for $10.00 Letter from Joseph Pease (railroad baron and abolutionist) to his Father Edward Pease (Founder of the Darlington Railroad-first railroad in Great Britain).

"Inactive image - Link deleted by Moderator"

quite a deal I think...

Very nice find and he was known not only for his contribution to the railways but also as the first Quaker elected to Parliament.

Yes he was.

The Richard Fry (under Edward Pease) was related the Frys Chocolate family, his father was Joseph Storrs Fry. He married the daughter of Edward Pease, Rachel.

Edward Pease admired the work of Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, not sure if there is a connection with Richard Fry.

Wow I am finding out more here than I have been googling lol... Wonder why he would write both names on the cover...

I think they, Richard and Rachel, lived with Edward as she was definitely living with Edward before he died (she was said to be a widow but I found that Richard remarried later ).

Maybe he was writing to both or Richard could have been a secretery to Edward???

I believe the letter is to Edward as it is signed Ever thy Oiffe(?) son (I still can't make sense of this word)

The letter was to Edward. The ending says 'Ever thy affectionate son', old fashioned shorthand.

Can you read the body of the letter?

It looks like it may only be the last page of a letter because I believe the top two letters are PS

"the starch bandage has been removed and a coller with two small splints substituted. The coller extends from near the body to the ancle and allows the knee to bend considerably and is already felt to be a great relief.
They have no message but dear love to your his(?)" (also does not make sense to me)

Sounds like somebody had a broken leg.

I can't work out that last word either.

it is obviously a name or nickname but what it is I don't know... perhaps Liz or Lis?

I'd closed off all the links I was using before but here are some others:

Joseph Pease (there is mention of Elizabeth Fry)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REpease.htm

Edward Pease

http://morawel.com/fam3173.html

Trying to get an appraisal of this piece... for auction perhaps.

Sold this recently to a dealer .. not a cover, but rather interesting I thought.

Very nice... what did you get? If you don't mind me asking?

Maybe it's "They have no message but dear love to your kin."

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Nigel

never thought of that... possible... I thought kin was a southern word though

I always thought it was Scottish. As in "kith and kin" = friends and family.

If anyone is interested I would be willing to swap this for a nice penny black... I had an autograph dealer offer me $70 and and he was not interested in the philatelic aspect of it...

Anyone have passports for famous people - movie stars - it is an area that sounds interesting and I have been looking for a few

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Collector of Movie related mail, props, etc.
thomasR1atohiodominican.edu

I posted this on the Free Front thread but feel it should be here as well. No mention was made of the addressee in either the title or description of this front, indeed I only picked it up as I had entered Fife in the title or description and it was mentioned as being sent to Fife in the description. Front only to Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, Lindores, Newburgh, Fife, N.B. Maitland was the man to whom Napoleon Bonaparte Surrendered to on his ship The Bellerophon, so in my books he is famous.

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Donald.
Aus KGV Head Addict !

Here's a folded letter to Henry Shrapnel. You probably can figure out what he invented.



Copy of the letter:


(Bio from Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Shrapnel

Chip

I bought this cover from a fellow stampboard-er. I had some time tonight to track the person on the cover.

William T.G. Fischer (15 August 1877 in Rørk¦r, Pa. Birth - 15 September 1969) was a Danish pharmacist, manager and Mayor of Frederiksberg 1936-1948. In his office was present Frederiksberg Town Hall built.

William Fisher was the son of the track champion Laurits Joseph Fischer (died 1916) and wife f. Lassen (d. 1924), came from Randers Grammar School 1893 and was a disciple of Royal. Frederiks Hospital Pharmacy 1893-97 and was cand.pham. The 1898th He joined the firm Alfred Benzon A / S in the same year and later advanced to director Alfred Benzon 1937-50 and the Alfred Benzon Holding A / S 1943-51, where he also was a member of the board of both companies until 1951, again in Board of A / S Alfred Benzon from 1952.

While he had a political career in the Conservative Party. He was Vice Frederiksberg Fiscal 1932-35, member of Frederiksberg Municipal 1933-50, was alderman 1933 and mayor 1936-48. He was a Knight of Dannebrog Dannebrog and man.

Fischer was a member of the board of A / S Arbo-Bähr & Co.. to 1952, for A / S Nordic Cable & Traadfabrikker to 1957 and for The partnership Isef earth station to 1950, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for apprentices home Allegaarden from 1936, the Board of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Louise's Foundation for 1953, the Board of JC Teilmann Foundation and the Board of Supervisors of Frederiksberg Savings Bank, Vice Chairman of the Board of Border Association and member of the Board of Kjøbenhavns Brandforsikring, president of South Schleswig Committee dated 5 May 1945 to 1946, Chairman of the Board of Frederiksberg Funeral services for 1952, for Bakkehus Museum in 1950 and the insurance company Northern Lights.

Mayor Fischer Road is named after him (1952).

Ref:http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Fischer_(borgmester) translated by Google translator.

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