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Maximums, Mysteries, and More
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The Evolution of Colorano:
Colorano actually started by making "maxi-cards" (postcards for use with new stamps and their first day cancels), not first day covers. Here are three examples, showing their evolution. The 1965 Churchill card (click here for a larger view) is so atypical that you have to flip it over (click on it) to see who made it.
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Flipping two of these cards over (click on them) reveals their origins, but the back of the third one isn't much help.
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This 7"x10" picture postcard shows the site where gold was first discovered in California in 1849, which led to the statehood a year later whose centennial was commemorated on the 1950 stamp, Sc. 997. But why two 3¢ stamps?
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This 7"x9" postcard shows the Atlantic City, NJ, convention center, but the 1947 stamp (Sc. 949) commemorates Doctors. How come?
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Who serviced these maximum and maxi-cards? They're not signed. Click to find out.
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These aren't postcards or even actually cards. What are they?
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Lloyd A. de Vries
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