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Haiti Postal Rates for 1951-1954

ndoire — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:59:42 +0000

A researcher reached out to the HPS indicating he is looking for information on postal rates between 1951 and 1954. Unless I totally missed it, I couldn't find this information in the earlier versions of the Haiti Philately journal. Does anyone have this information or a suggestion on where to find it? Thanks,

New member introduction and a question

pobega — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:53:45 +0000

Good day! I am Mike Pobega and I have been a US stamp collector since 11 years old, some 48 years ago! After a very long hiatus while I ran a business, raised a family etc., I have returned to stamps and have found the wonder once again. I forgot how much fun collecting stamps can be. Now I stumbled across Haitian early airmails and seems to be locked in. Specifically covers bearing correct postage and cachets from the first flights to the NYRBA First flights and the FAM flights, so early 30s.
Is there a resource other than EBAY for this material? I appreciate any response and thanks for letting me be here. I have already spent about 6 hours in your archives learning what I must. Great stuff there by the way.
I have the two Airmail publications your Society has produced as well as a set of a old set of American Air Mail Society catalogs.
Thanks you
mike

Mixed franking

pcj — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:05:49 +0000

Does anyone have a "mixed" franking cover for this issue or any other issue Haiti?
Peter

A.C. Roessler and Haiti

ndoire — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:42:32 +0000

I am looking for more information about A.C. Roessler's Haiti covers, FDCs and commercial first flight covers. I found a few entries in earlier issues of Haiti Philately, but would anyone have other sources or publications to recommend?

Thanks, in advance.

Inverted initials on WIAE cover

ndoire — Tue, 18 May 2021 12:38:26 +0000

A cover of the Dec. 13, 1927 WIAE flight from PaP to San Juan (Pioneer #8a, WI-5a, MU-12) was recently sold on eBay and it was addressed to L.B. Rowe instead of the correct name B. L. Rowe.

Does anyone know who was responsible for the printing of these covers and if the inverted initials appear on other WIAE covers?

Any comments or reference is appreciated.

Tourist Picture Postcards from Haiti

Trucial_States61 — Mon, 10 May 2021 13:28:39 +0000

I am interested in tourist comments written on picture postcards sent from Haiti during the "Golden Age" of Haiti tourism (circa 1950's-70's) with the ultimate goal of writing an article about this in "Haiti Philately." The focus is "social philately" about what tourist visitors saw and did, even if it was nothing more than a travel itinerary or a weather report. [For example, my personal experience is that many postcards from the Middle East generally included some form of "it sure is hot here"]. Messages and English and French are preferred but I can deal with other languages as necessary. Are other HPS members able to help me with this by providing either scans or paper copies? [This is my first posting on the HPS Discussion Forum so if I left something out, please let me know].

Haiti postal rates

perstamp87 — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:43:45 +0000

Can anyone tell me where I can get Haiti postal rates from 1893 to 1904?

Can you help identify this cover and tell me who Muller is?

pobega — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:45:22 +0000

(sorry if in wrong subforum)
What exactly is a Huber 300? ---I'd recently acquired this cover and was curious where I can find additional info. I have the full AAMC set, the Haitian Philatelic Society books 'Early Air Mail of Haiti' by Peter C. Jeannopoulos and 'Haiti's First Flights' by Barbara A. Levine as well as all of the pertinent PDFs and links here by Huber and Singley (elsewhere), So, who and where is Muller??
Thanks!!

information about Benoit Couba

BRUFFAERTS — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:13:22 +0000

Peter Jeannopoulos, and I will be co-authoring a comprehensive catalog of Benoit Couba postcards.

This 240 page publication will serve as a valuable reference for collectors and will contain numerous quality illustrations that postcard collectors and non-collectors will find of interest, as many sights and scenes no longer exist. It is expected to be available early in 2020.

We are looking for information about Benoit Couba for writing his biography.
Thank you for your help.

Postmarks with Spanish month names

Manfred — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:11:53 +0000

Does anyone know why the month names of postmarks some years before and after 2010 are in Spanish?

Delmas "29 AGO 2007", AGO = agosto

Delmas "15 DIC 2009", DIC = diciembre

Jacmel "11 ENE 2010?", ENE = enero

Pétion Ville "18 ENE 2011", ENE = enero

1927 First Flight Cover From Jeremie to Port-au-Prince

pcj — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:59:46 +0000

First flight covers from Port-au-Prince to Jeremie are to be found with some frequency.

Despite the fact that it has been reported that 75 pieces were carried on the return flight of July 12, 1927, it is believed that they are very rare. Please let me know if you have one. Thank you.