MOURNING COVERS - Revision history

Randylyon at 15:58, 9 May 2024

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	[[File:mourningcover.JPG\|250px\|thumb\|left\|]]MOURNING COVERS. Mourning covers were black-edged posted letters used in most countries, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as harbingers of death and messengers of grief. These death related letters ~~are~~ characterized by a mourning mark, almost always black, and ~~have been~~ carried in the public mail system of at least 250 different countries. (1) The reverse, and often the stationery inside, are also usually finished with black. (2)		[[File:mourningcover.JPG\|250px\|thumb\|left\|]]MOURNING COVERS. Mourning covers were black-edged posted letters used in most countries, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as harbingers of death and messengers of grief. These death related letters were characterized by a mourning mark, almost always black, and were carried in the public mail system of at least 250 different countries. (1) The reverse, and often the stationery inside, are also usually finished with black. (2)

	The Mourning Stamps and Covers Club (MSCC), founded in 2006, has an international membership. It publishes a quarterly newsletter of approximately twenty pages entitled ''Mourning Notes'', available by e-mail in color or by regular mail in black and white. Meetings of the club have been held at various conventions of the American Philatelic Society and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, as well as at smaller regional exhibitions. (3)		The Mourning Stamps and Covers Club (MSCC), founded in 2006, has an international membership. It publishes a quarterly newsletter of approximately twenty pages entitled ''Mourning Notes'', available by e-mail in color or by regular mail in black and white. Meetings of the club have been held at various conventions of the American Philatelic Society and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, as well as at smaller regional exhibitions. (3)

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Randylyon at 03:44, 22 December 2014

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	[[File:mourningcover.JPG\|250px\|thumb\|left\|]]MOURNING COVERS. Mourning covers were black-edged posted letters used in most countries, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as harbingers of death and messengers of grief. These death related letters are characterized by a mourning mark, almost always black, and have been carried in the public mail system of at least 250 different countries.		[[File:mourningcover.JPG\|250px\|thumb\|left\|]]MOURNING COVERS. Mourning covers were black-edged posted letters used in most countries, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as harbingers of death and messengers of grief. These death related letters are characterized by a mourning mark, almost always black, and have been carried in the public mail system of at least 250 different countries. (1) The reverse, and often the stationery inside, are also usually finished with black. (2)

	The Mourning Stamps and Covers Club (MSCC), founded in 2006, has an international membership. It publishes a quarterly newsletter of approximately twenty pages entitled ''Mourning Notes'', available by e-mail in color or by regular mail in black and white. Meetings of the club have been held at various conventions of the American Philatelic Society and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, as well as at smaller regional exhibitions.		The Mourning Stamps and Covers Club (MSCC), founded in 2006, has an international membership. It publishes a quarterly newsletter of approximately twenty pages entitled ''Mourning Notes'', available by e-mail in color or by regular mail in black and white. Meetings of the club have been held at various conventions of the American Philatelic Society and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, as well as at smaller regional exhibitions. (3)

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			1. Mourning Stamps and Covers Club. Online: http://www.mscc.ms/

			2. "Mourning Covers – Beautiful Bearers of Bad News," Rainy Day Stamps. Online: http://www.rainydaystamps.com/2014/08/mourning-covers/

			3. Mourning Stamps and Covers Club.

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[[File:mourningcover.JPG|250px|thumb|left|]]MOURNING COVERS. Mourning covers were black-edged posted letters used in most countries, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as harbingers of death and messengers of grief. These death related letters are characterized by a mourning mark, almost always black, and have been carried in the public mail system of at least 250 different countries.

The Mourning Stamps and Covers Club (MSCC), founded in 2006, has an international membership. It publishes a quarterly newsletter of approximately twenty pages entitled ''Mourning Notes'', available by e-mail in color or by regular mail in black and white. Meetings of the club have been held at various conventions of the American Philatelic Society and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, as well as at smaller regional exhibitions.