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- OBJECT TYPE
- AIRMAIL/OFFICIAL
- DATE
- 1928
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1966.0965.005
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Montreal, Que - Allbany, N.Y.
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 5
- Total Parts
- 12
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 15.4 cm
- Width
- 10.3 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Commemorative
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- postmarked Oct. 1, 1928
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
air mail envelope commemorates first air mail flight between Montreal & Albany - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- lettering on postage stamp reads: "CANADA/5/CENTS/5"; lettering on post mark reads: "MONTREAL/1-PM/OC 1/28/CANADA"; type written lettering reads: VIA FIRST AIR MAIL FLIGHT/MONTREAL ALBANY/Col. J. Scott Williams,/c/o Walter Motor Truck Co., Inc.,/Queens Blvd., at 37th Street,/Long Island City, N.Y./U.S.A."; lettering on first flight ink stamp reads: "FIRST FLIGHT/AIR MAIL SERVICE/MONTREAL - ALBANY/CANADA USA/PREMIERE DEPECHE AERIENNE"; postal stamp on back reads: "ALBANY/OCT 1/[illeg.] PM/1928/N.Y."
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- red & white typewritten text; predom. brown postage stamp; black post mark; green first flight ink stamp on white envelope
- Decoration
- globe, winged figures & airplane in flight on postage stamp; globe between outstretched wings on first flight ink stamp
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Unknown Manufacturer, Cover, 1928, Artifact no. 1966.0965, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1966.0965.005/
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