Shameful Stamp Stories

Glad you brought this up darkormex.....

Since Yesterday was a beautiful warmer day, I took the family out for lunch and then we walked the Garden District/Uptown area of New Orleans. Lots of old beautiful homes, all built in the 1800's.

While walking we came to one house that was being renovated. In front, on the street was one of those big 40 yard roll off dumpsters. It was full and over flowing. On the ground was about 8-10 airmail covers from the WWII era, dated 1943-44.   Every one of them had a letter in them and the best part was that they all had a New Orleans cancel.  I climbed up on the dumpster and seen another 15-20 of them, all with letters and N.O. cancels.

Now you wondering why I am posting this here in the shameful stamp stories......  and here is the rest of the story (in my best Paul Harvey voice).

The sad part about this was that they were all wet from the previous days rain.  Yes you could read most of the address, yes you could read the cancel, but the stamps had fallen off with the moisture.  We could open each letter but the moisture had made most of the ink unreadable, and the glue on the envelopes that held it together was ruined, making the all the envelopes open up.

So as a stamp/cover collector, I was upset to see this, as all of this would have been great stuff to put in my New Orleans collection.

But remember, One mans trash is another mans treasure!!!!