Showing posts with label Airmail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airmail. Show all posts

April 29, 2022

Portugal: Airmail

Older airmail labels from Portugal. This is a full sheet of 40 labels.

Year: 1936, gummed.
POR-A-3


Greece: Airmail

Older airmail labels from Greece. From a sheet. I'm unsure about how many labels would be on a full sheet.

Year: approx 1980, gummed.
GRC-A-12


SAS: Airmail

Airmail labels from SAS (Scandinavian airlines). An airline from Denmark, Sweden, Norway.

These labels are from a booklet.

Year: approx 1952, gummed.
SWE-B-3



Guyana: Airmail

Airmail labels from Guyana. These are from a stamp booklet from 1981.

Year: 1981, Gummed.



Australia: Airmail

This airmail label was released in July 2014 to celebrate '100 years of airmail in Australia'. 

This labels is for letters. There is also a bigger one for packages. 

You can't see it that well on the picture, but the label has a white border. 

Year: 2014, gummed.


April 23, 2022

Åland: Par avion/Priority

These were the first labels published by the Åland postal service themselves. 

The full sheet is 30 labels in total. On white backing paper.

Year: 1996, Self-adhesive.
ALA-A-1



April 18, 2022

USA: Hallmark stationery

Not an official label from a postal service. Instead this was published by Hallmark stationery in the 70s. It came on a block with other snoopy and peanuts labels you could put on your penpal letters. Very cute!

Year: 1970's, 
USA-C-535




Japan: Airmail

Airmail labels published by JAL - Japan Airlines.

This is a booklet with 30 labels. 5 labels on each page.

They look like the ones from the Airmail labels catalog published in the 70s, however this booklet has more labels. 

Year: ? 80s?, Self-adhesive.
 

Booklet cover








Labels inside



April 17, 2022

Greece: Airmail

Old airmail labels from Greece. 

Year: 1933, Gummed.
GRC-A-1



Croatia: Airmail/Priority labels

Labels from Croatia. I think these may be from a roll? Or a very big sheet.

They have an id number and year on the back. 

Year: 2016, Self-adhesive.


Taiwan: Airmail

Airmail labels from Taiwan. These were published by a hotel.

Year: approx. 1970, Self-adhesive.
TWN-C-1


April 15, 2022

Israel: Airmail

Airmail labels from Israel. These are from a roll. They look like the same ones in the airmail catalog called 'ISR-A-4' that are from 1988. I not sure if these are exactly them. But probaly from end 80's to start 90's.

Year: 1988?, Self-adhesive
ISR-A-4


April 14, 2022

Belgium: Priority labels

 Priority labels from Belgium. Part of a sheet. I'm unsure how big it is in total.

Not sure about the year either, but they look like ones I have seen from 1996. So it could be mid 90's.


Year: ?, Self-adhesive.



France: Airmail

Airmail labels from Air France.

According to the airmail catalog these were issued for customers in Germany, hence they also say 'luftpost' (= airmail)

Year: Approx 1955, Gummed.
FRA-B-94b



USA: Airmail labels

Giant sheet of airmail labels. If pretty much couldn't fit in my scanner properly.

The sheet has 40 labels in total. 

According to the airmail label catalog these are from approx. 1960.

I wish I had more info on why and who made them. 

Year: approx 1960, 
USA-C-599



October 30, 2019

Japan: Airmail labels (6)

Lighter blue. All text is bold. Back paper is white. Has id number on back. I think the 2018 could be year as I got it this year.

Year: 2018?, Self-adhesive.

























Japan: Airmail labels (5)

Lighter blue. All text is bold. On white back paper. Has id number on back.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

























Japan: Airmail labels (4)

Darker blue. Whole sheet has a white border. No id number on back. Kanji and Par avion is bold.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Japan: Airmail labels (3)

Darker color than other posted. On light yellow paper. Par avion and kanji is still bold.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Japan: Airmail labels (2)

Another sheet from Japan, this time the iid number is at the top and there is nothing on the back. Yellow back paper. Kanji signs looks to be bold text. Sadly can't remember the year I got this.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive.