Postal Covers

This article features my collection of Oliver Ditson Company covers. Although this blog is devoted to musical stamps, I also have a number of postal covers that are all music…

This article features my collection of Firth, Hall, & Pond covers. The many companies, individual and partnerships, run by these three men span most of the nineteenth century. At that…

This post features a wonderful Will Beck advertising cover from 1894. Its a wonderful piece that has both an interesting stamp (a Columbian) and survives with its contents. In fact,…

This post features a 1935 zeppelin cover with Handel stamps from my collection. It is a somewhat unusual piece for me, but I really loved the illustrations on this cover…

This post features a Wagner and Levien advertising cover from Mexico City in 1927. Its among a small number of international advertising covers for music businesses in my collection. Of…

This article features a really wonderful Andreas Koch harmonica cover from 1904. The Andreas Koch Harmonika-Fabrik was an important manufacturer of the instrument in Trossingen in Germany. It was a…

This article features a Chicago Mandolin Club corner card with its original letter. The piece is not as decorative as many of the covers that I write about, but it…

This article features a Steinway patriotic cover from 1943 in my collection. Though this blog primarily discusses my collection of musical stamps, I also like to feature cover from my…