This was RCA doing a little promotion for the Elvis comeback tour of ’68. Size is 3.875″ x 2.25″.
U.S.S. Ranger
Behold the U.S.S. Ranger, the first U.S. Navy vessel designed to be an aircraft carrier. Plopped in the water in 1934, the ship made it through WWII (though, due to its relative lack of speed, it stayed in the Atlantic) and was scrapped in 1947.
Vrrrrm! 1932 Marmon
This card was light damaged, so I have changed brightness/contrast parameters to make it more viewable.
Another Cinderella Stamp
This a more developed Cinderella. It apparently came as part of a perforated sheet of stamps. It has glue on the back.
In May of this year, a second well had just opened up in the Permian Basin in Texas…on land owned by the University of Texas. Whoopee! Break out the bubbly!
I browsed the AGA monthly issue that had notice of this convention in 1923. The proceedings looked…well (pun intended), interesting to them what was there, I’m sure.
Nice poster design, though. The stamp is 2.25″ x 3.5″
Radio Expo!
This Cinderella stamp is from 1925. KDKA radio in Pittsburgh went on the air in 1920 and WBZ in Boston came on soon after in 1921 – they did a remote broadcast from this expo. Surprisingly, there were many radio stations on the air in ’25, enough to spur a lot of interest in receivers and tubes…and batteries. As former DXer, I know the excitement of pulling in some exotic, far away station that faded in and out as the ionospheric waves bounced the signal. The much later, much lauded Sony ICF 2010 receiver has circuitry to stabilize these signals. One up on the old Hallicrafters…
This Cinderella is 1.875 x 2.375″ on flimsy paper. The orange-y ink bleeds through to the reverse.
Same Thing, Big Difference
This little (1 x 2.375″, no glue on reverse) Cinderella stamp has one thing going for it: it promotes an Exposition that was taking place the same summer as the seminal International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. From its French title, we get the term Art Deco.
3, 698 miles apart, same thing, big difference in influence. And we got Erté, which is not a bad thing (the name shows up frequently in the New York Times crossword puzzles).
’56 Chevy Bel Air
I grabbed this card as soon as I saw it. It was $1. That Chevy, in 1956, cost the princely sum of $3,500.
