1940's Rare Sheaffer Pen Company's V-Mail canister un-opened! Great Display WWII Sheaffer's Voyager

1940's Rare Sheaffer Pen Company's V-Mail canister un-opened! Great Display WWII Sheaffer's Voyager
1940's Rare Sheaffer Pen Company's V-Mail canister un-opened! Great Display WWII Sheaffer's Voyager - фотография #2
1940's Rare Sheaffer Pen Company's V-Mail canister un-opened! Great Display WWII Sheaffer's Voyager - фотография #3
1940's Rare Sheaffer Pen Company's V-Mail canister un-opened! Great Display WWII Sheaffer's Voyager - фотография #4
1940's Rare Sheaffer Pen Company's V-Mail canister un-opened! Great Display WWII Sheaffer's Voyager - фотография #5
Бренд: Sheaffer's Voyager
~ 5 536 ₽ 60.00 $

Характеристики

Type of Advertising V-Mail WWII
Date of Creation 1942
1940's Rare Sheaffer Pen Company's V-Mail canister un-opened! Great Display WWII

Un-opened tube of V-Mail. Excellent condition, 9" tall by 3" wide. Fun find for the Military buff or Novelty ephemera collector.

WWII US V-mail Stationary Tube....Some history below;

Staying in touch with family and friends stationed overseas was just as important in World War II as it is in current military undertakings. Fast, free, and difficult for the enemy to intercept, victory mail (or "V-Mail"). "V-Mail" when adopted by the United States, the Airgraph Service was first developed by the British Post Office in response to the Italians closing of the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea to Allied forces.

The United States adopted the Airgraph Service, renaming it "victory mail" or "V-Mail," on June 15, 1942, and it was in use until April 1, 1945. Where it had taken up to a month for standard mail delivery by ship, V-Mail delivery could take as little as twelve days or less using aircraft. Air transport also had the added benefit of minimizing the likelihood of enemy interception, although censors still insured that any potentially useful or damaging information was deleted from all messages. One final benefit was that letters could never be "lost in the mail"-with serial numbers on the forms and originals held on file, any message that was lost in transit could be reproduced and sent to the addressee.

Excellent gift idea for the Military or Ephemera collector!

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