CHRISTMAS '98 REVISITY

[Bradford]

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Thanks for the blog, Brad! Amazing that my "Xmas postage" collages are arriving in  the USA , just in the for Valentine's Day? Ha! During this Covid Era we will just celebrate all-year-long, I think mail from Greece is going across the Big Pond via slow boat and not air mail.

That's all the George Washington and things that I sent, Brad, nothing lost. The envelope is an old recycled one, they don't print them like that in Greece anymore :-( 

[Bradford]

Postmarked one 29/11/2020 in Greece so it took 66 days to arrive in Deadwood, South Dakotey.  There are Botticelli Christmas stamps from 1981 (non-denominated, but 20¢ domestic letter rate), and a few Washington 5¢ from the 1960s included with collage and handstamp work. 

The strips of 4 of the 5¢ Washington coils are used later with the top one having been mailed from the US Virgin Islands with "CHARLOTTE AMALIE" CDS and "ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE" slogan cancel.

All-in-all quite a festive mailing that arrived with one side slit open already so hope this is everything Katerina sent!  Many Thanks.