American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Postcard featuring cosmonaut Pavel Belyayev (in Russian) accompanied by FDC in Russian, with cache illustrating a space vehicle circling the moon and returning to earth.

[With:] Block of 6 German stamps, “Deutsches reich.” -- 5 Internal Revenue stamps, each 25 cents, all of these used with dates of 29 May 1863, 8 Feb. 1865; 12 March 1866; Jan. 4, 1873; and Sept. 6, 1872. -- 17 “blocks” of four stamps each, unused, all 3 cents: Thomas A. Edison; Francis Parkman; Texas Statehood; Iowa Statehood Centennial (2); New Mexico Statehood; Apprenticeship; Joseph Pulitzer (2); Wildlife Conservation; U.S. Merchant Marine (2); These Immortal Chaplains; Iwo Jima (2); U.S. Navy; and 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures.

[Also with:] Stampless letter address page, marked “Paid.”
-- Three blank V-Mail forms from WWII. -- Blank early airmail envelope. -- Two FDCs with cache of First Flight New York- Los Angeles Route Air Mail P.O.D. C.A.M. 34. Oct.25, 1930. One has an airmail stamp, the other a different stamp. -- FDC with ”National Air Mail Week, May 15-21, 1938. Cache of Smoki Snake Dance, June 12. Prescott, Arizona, “Home of the Smoki People.”