Harriet Quimby
Harriet Quimby was an early female aviator. She began her career, though, as a writer. Starting in 1901, she wrote theater reviews and other articles for magazines in San Francisco and New York. In 1911, she wrote seven screenplays that were made into movies with D.W. Griffith directing. That same year she got her pilot’s license – the first woman pilot in the U.S. She began flying in air shows for extra money.
In April 1912, she flew across the English Channel alone, the first woman to do so. This received very little press since she made the flight one day after the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
A few months later in July 1912, while flying in an aviation show – with the organizer of the show riding along – something went wrong and the plane twice tilted forwarded suddenly, ejecting her and her passenger – I guess they had not yet devised seat belts. They both fell to their deaths, while the plane righted itself and landed fairly undamaged on its own.
Note
The three stamps at the top are worth mentiong – Leuchtturn agrees as they did on the album page. They’re part of a simultaneous issuance of stamps by members of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain. The Union includes many members states from Cental and South America, as well as the U.S., Spain and now Portugal.
The U.S. issued two other stamps in this special set. You can see them on the second row of Page 92.1. They all have the word, AMERICA printed them (i.e. the Americas), plus the logo at that time that’s the letters Puas with a postal horn underneath. The other countries issued similar stamps with the same text, except that t he log reads Puae – with the trailing e for España. With the addition of Portugal, they added a p to their logos.
Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
Postal Union of the Americas, et alia
✓ |
C127 |
45¢ (oct 1990) |
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✓ |
C121 |
45¢ (oct 1989) |
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✓ |
C131 |
50¢ (oct 1991) |
Famous Americans
✓ |
C128 |
50¢ (apr 1991) |
Other
✓ |
C130 |
50¢ (jun 1991) |
Famous Americans
✓ |
C129 |
40¢ (may 1991) |
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✓ |
C128b |
50c (apr 1991) |
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✓ |
C132 |
40¢ (jul 1993) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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