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La Posta Publications offers a whole series of books, monographs and data bases on CD-ROM.

This exciting new publication format permits postal history works to be offered with full-color illustrations and the capabilities of sorting and searching data bases.

Each CD E-book is priced at $17.50 post paid worldwide.

 

A Catalogue of Non-standard U.S. Postmarks, 1900-1971

By Randy Stehle and Doug DeRoest

Throughout the 1990s Randy Stehle and Doug DeRoest compiled a listing of over 2,000 US postmarks that violated existing Post Office Department regulations in design characteristics, but were used on 1st class mail between 1900 and 1971. The authors—aided by reports from dozens of La Posta readers—published their findings serially as an illustrated catalogue in 37 instalments between 1990 and 1998. 

Tragically, both of these scholars died at an early age before they were able to achieve their ultimate goal of producing a single, revised volume presenting a comprehensive picture of U.S. non-standard postmarks. La Posta Publications has decided to co­­mplete the non-standard catalogue project as a tribute to Randy and Doug, and has re-organized the La Posta instalments into a 337 page catalogue complete with town index and full-color illustrations of many of the non-standard postmarks on cards and covers.

 The catalogue begins with four introductory chapters explaining in great detail the U. S. Post Office Department regulations concerning use of postmarking and cancelling equipment as they evolved during the early years of the 20th century. The catalogue itself is divided into nine major categories of non-standard postmarks depending upon their design. These are 1) duplex postmarks with integral fancy cancels; 2) Doane cancel mimics; 3) four-bar mimics; 4) duplex that mimic steel hand cancels; 5) machine cancel mimics; 6) postmark dial only; 7) duplex horizontal bar cancels; 8) duplex vertical bar cancels; and 9) wavy line cancels.

 

 

 

Passed by Army Censor by Richard W. Helbock is a catalogue of censor markings used on mail from American soldiers and War Department civilians assigned overseas in 1941 and 1942. The book is organized chronologically and geographically according to the major world regions in which U.S. Army and Air Corps personnel were assigned during 1941 and 1942........................................... $17.50 post paid

 

 

 

 

 

United States Post Offices, Volumes 1-8 complete on one CD - $79.50

Over 160,000 U.S. post offices on one disc with searchable, sort able MS Access file. All of the introductory text and maps of each region are included

 

 

 

Also available a regional discs for only $17.50 each

United States Post Offices, Volumes 1- 8 in SEARCHABLE & SORTABLE database format. Volume 1 - The West; Volume 2- The Great Plains; Volume 3-The Upper Midwest; Volume 4-The Northeast; olume 5-The Ohio Valley; Volume 6 - The Mid-Atlantic and Volume 7 - The Lower Mississippi Valley and Volume 8 - The Southeast are ready for immediate shipment. Each disc contains the introductory text in pdf format from the printed version along with complete post office data bases in both MS EXCEL© and tab delimited text formats. In addition, The West includes full size Postal Route Maps of California, Arizona, Idaho, Montana & Wyoming in 1884; Oregon & Washington in 1883; New Mexico in 1907, and Alaska in 1903. The Great Plains, Upper Midwest, Northeast & Ohio Valley states as well as, Nevada, Utah and Colorado are represented by full color detailed maps of 1903............................$17.50 each postpaid

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  US Doanes, 2nd Edition, with full-color illustrations in pdf format and US Doane data bases in both MS EXCEL© and tab delimited text formats. The sortable, searchable data bases will allow collectors the ability to customize their Doane listings in a variety of ways and conduct searches to permit identifying partial or hard-to-read cancels..............................$17.50 postpaid

 

Montana Territorial Postmarks, Wes Shellen & Francis Dunn, the complete alphabetical listing of all recorded postmarks of Montana in the territorial era in an interactive format with dozens of full color cover illustrations. Interactive features include "hot key" links from hundreds of post offices to their locations on the Montana Postal Route Map of 1883-84 and their listing of businesses and residents in McKenney’s Directory of 1883-84...........$17.50 postpaid

Oregon Frontier Cavalryman, The Lt. William Carey Brown Correspondence from Fort Klamath, Oregon, 1878-1880. This remarkable series of letters from a young West Point graduate to his family in Denver describes in great detail his observations while engaged in pursuit of Indians in eastern Oregon, the tedius barracks life in Fort Klamath, and journeys north to Fort Vancouver and the Umatilla Indian Reservation and south to Captain Jacks Lava Bed stronghold in northern California.........$17.50 postpaid.

Postmarks Among the Palms. A postal history of the Florida Keys by Jerry Wilkinson and Richard Helbock.......$17.50 postpaid

Washington Territorial Postmarks By Richard A. Long.

A Reprint of his 1990-1995 Articles in La Posta.

With the kind permission of author Richard A. Long, we are pleased to announce the addition of a reprint of his ground-breaking catalogue and inventory of Washington Territorial Postmarks. This series was originally published in La Posta between 1990 and 1995,and, although all the counties of the Territory were not completed, it remains the seminal work on the subject of Washington Territorial Postmarks to date. We are pleased to add it to our stock of La Posta E-books. The catalogue has been augmented with full-color illustrations of territorial covers from the Lane Woodard Collection........... $17,50 postpaid

Prexie Postal History,Edited by Richard W. Helbock

Originally published in 1988 as Volume 2 in the La Posta Monograph Series, Prexie Postal History was the first book devoted entirely to the subject of the 1938 Presidential Series. Five authors discuss their own personal approaches to collecting and exhibiting postal history associated with this popular set of stamps.

Terence Hines examines some of the possibilities available to build a specialized collection of cards and covers demonstrating varying uses of the Prexie low value denominations. Walt Cole demon­strates how he managed to assemble an award-winning collection featuring postal history associated with just one Prexie denomination—the 3e Jefferson. Robert Dalton Harris conducts a fascinating tour behind some of the logic of US domestic first class franking with Prexie denominations. Richard W. Helbock relates the complicated and changing pattern of international air mail usages of Prexies during the turbulent era of World War II. Stephen L. Suffet presents a discussion of several approaches to building award-winning exhibits of the Prexies. The book concludes with a publication of the massive table based on the late Henry Beecher's painstaking research showing international air mail rates from the US to various nations and colonies during the 1938-1946 period.

 

Postmarks on Postcards, Revised 2nd Edition

An Illustrated Guide to Early 20th Century US Postmarks

By Richard W. Helbock

This 290-page generously illustrated handbook (many in full color) is designed to provide both an introduction to all US postmarks of the 1900-1920 era and a reference for anyone wishing to learn more about postmarks and postmark collecting. The book has been two sections: the first explores all US postmark types found on cards and covers of the Postcard era; and the second provides details of the ways in which US postmarks are collected.

Part I consists of ten chapters featuring Doane cancels; Manuscript & Straight-line markings; Anachronisms & Mimics; and Machine Cancels just to name a few. Each subject is carefully explained and well illustrated, and the discussion includes comments on the market value for each postmark type. The chapter on Machine Cancels includes a simple technique that enables the reader to make a rapid identification of the manufacturer of nearly all machine cancels of the 1900-1920 period. Each chapter concludes with an up-to-date list of references that can lead the reader to more detailed information.

Part II discusses the major ways in which US postmarks are collected. The six chapters in this section include collecting by Geographic Regions, Rural Free Delivery, Railway Post Offices, Naval & Military Specialties and an entirely new chapter on Collecting Ancillary & Auxiliary Markings. Each chapter contains information on collector organizations and references, as well as lots of illustrations and a basic introduction to the specialty.

The book wraps up with a Glossary of Postal History Terms; four Appendices providing specific data on the subjects of US Doane cancels and Military & Naval postal history; and an Index.

In addition, this CD-ROM version has been enhanced with a gallery of nearly 1,000 full-color illustrations of the various sorts of early 20th century postmarks described in the text

 Chapter Outline
  • Chapter 1Introduction

  • Chapter 2 Handstamps Versus Machine Postmarks

  • Chapter 3 Circular Date Stamps & Associated Cancels

  • Chapter 4 Doane Handstamps

  • Chapter 5 Four-bar Handstamps

  • Chapter 6 Metal Duplex Handstamps

  • Chapter 7 Manuscript & Straight-line Postmarks

  • Chapter 8 Anachronisms & Mimics

  • Chapter 9 Misuse of Special Purpose Handstamps

  • Chapter 10 Machine Cancellations

  • Chapter 11 Collecting by Geographic Regions

  • Chapter 12 Collecting Rural Free Delivery Markings

  • Chapter 13 Collecting Railway Post Office Markings

  • Chapter 14 Collecting Naval & Military Postmarks

  • Chapter 15 Collecting Ancillary & Auxiliary Markings

  • Chapter 16 Collecting Other US Postmark Specialties

  • A.      Air Mail

  • B.       Fair & Exposition

  • C.       US Possessions

  • D.      Other Possibilities

 

La Posta Subscribers’ Auctions #53-72 Prices Realized

This CD-ROM contains the results of twenty La Posta Subscribers’ Auction conducted between 1996 and 2004. An aggregate of nearly 14,000 individual lots of United States postal history were offered in these sales and approximately 70% of these lots were purchased by La Posta subscribers. The prices realized by these lots represents a powerful research tool for anyone seeking to better understand the market for U.S. postal history.

The data contained herein includes original lot descriptions, estimates of value and the actual prices realized. Some 1,600 of the lots are illustrated--most by full-color scanned images.

Data is available in both HTML and MS Excel format.

 

 

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Early Air Mail & Aviation in Southern California by Don Evans. This groundbreaking survey of the history of early air mail in Southern Califiornia from 1910 to the onset of World War II was originally published in La Posta: A Journal of American Postal History in serial format. The copiously illustrated work has been updated and reorganized as the first in our new series of Electronic Monographs, and the images for which color was available are reproduced here in beautiful full-color figures. This will make a very worthwhile addition to the library of any collector interested in the history of early air mail or the broader postal history of Southern California. The text is reproduced in pdf format and the disc includes a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader©......... $17.50 postpaid

Oregon Historic Images contains 111 high resolution (400dpi) tiff images of real photo postcards dating from 1910 through the 1940s from the State of Oregon. These represent the cream of a collection assembled over a period of two decades by Richard Helbock and feature numerous classic small town street scenes; early 20th century transportation including river steamers, stage coaches, and horse drawn wagons; and classic post offices. The collection is heavily weighted toward views from the Oregon coast from Astoria to Brookings. All images are available at 400dpi and should be suitable for making 8x10-inch prints...................................................$19.95 postpaid

 

Other titles coming very soon include:

 

US Army World War II Censor Markings of 1942;

Postmarks of Territorial Alaska, Vol. 4; and many others.

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