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Auxiliary Markings: Index 0 Index to Auxiliary Markings Volume 1-10 2003-2013 Issues 1-40 Indexed by Dennis Ladd Table of Contents Authors Index page 1 Articles Index page 10 Geographic Index page 19 Subject Index page 36 Shipping Lines, Ships, Pacquebots, etc. page 41 Index of Bibliographies page 42 Club Business page 44 Auxiliary Markings page 45 ©2013, Dennis Ladd for the Auxiliary Markings Club. May be copied and distributed freely, but not sold. Auxiliary Markings: Index 0 I/1/1 = Volume I/Issue No. 1/Page no(s). 1 Authors Index _____ II/4/7 Miscellaneous Labels Breske, Thomas II/1/3 Bilingual and Trilingual Marks from South Africa _____ V/3/6-7 Private Auxiliary Marks on Hollywood Fan Mail – the The Entire Demurrage Marking First AMC-Produced Monograph by Regis Thomas VIII/1/1 and Thomas J. Richards [book review] Extra Special Special Delivery VII/4/2 VI/4/4 _____ Hand Drawn Pointing Fingers Some Thoughts on a Classification Scheme for IV/4/2-4 Auxiliary Markings – Part 1 Held for Postage (with Norm Pence, Michael I/3/5-6 Ludeman; Tony Wawrukiewicz) Some Thoughts on a Classification Scheme for VIII/1/7-12 Auxiliary Markings – Part 2 Held for Postage – More Input I/4/4-5 IV/3/2 Albright, Paul Hotel Auxiliary Markings “Damaged in Mail” Marks Provide a Range of IX/1/4-12 Information Late Arrival Mail and Related Auxiliary Marks IV/4/7 V/3/4-5 ‘Deceased’ – Oops Maritime Ship Auxiliary Markings – Passenger and VII/2/12 Crew Is This Star an Auxiliary Marking? IX/4/4-8 V/3/3 ‘No Sea Post Aboard’ Lie for Me, No One Will Ever Know IX/4/9 I/1/6 Postmaster General’s Order of May 19, 1883 Misaddressed Mexico Registered Mail with Courtesy VI/4/2-3 Label Special Delivery Inventory IX/3/12 VII/4/6-10 Old Friends and Some New Guys on the Block ‘TEST’ Mystery Solved VII/2/4-5 VIII/2/10-11 Personal Service and a Smiley Face An Update of Held for Postage-Related Auxiliary V/1/6 Markings Personalized Auxiliary marking X/2/9-12 V/4/11 The ‘VOID’ and ‘VOIDED’ Auxiliary Marks Two Interesting Auxiliary Markings X/1/6-9 III/2/7 Chaon, Raymond; Tony Wawrukiewicz Two Unusual Auxiliary Markings An Apparently ‘Ordinary’ Cover That Isn’t IV/4/7 V/4/4 U.S. Auxiliary Markings on International Mail Cherrington, Michael D. II/2/1 A Question Aldam, Albert III/2/9 Those Clock-Face Receiving Auxiliary Markings Suspicious Mail VI/2/3 I/3/1 Austin, Roland Clark, Nancy B. Insufficiently Paid Mail – Received Without Postage Machine Postmark Pointing Hands: Atlanta, GA Rate II/2/3 X/3/4 Modern Postal Use of Labels Bartsche, Tim I/1/2-5 “Too Late” Markings – Boer Republics and Their President’s Message Colonial Counterparts I/1/2, I/2/2, I/3/2, I/4/2, II/1/1, II/2/2, II/3/1, I/4/6-7 II/4/1, III/1/1, III/3/1, IV/4/5 Berthelot, H.J. Spray Cancel Auxiliary Markings (with Michael M. Cover with 1958 Seattle, Washington Postage Due Ludeman, Tony Wawrukiewicz) Auxiliary Marking Sells for $156.00 on eBay II/2/6-7 IX/3/8-9 Cohen, Norman E. Story on “Miscellaneous Label” The Misuse of Third-Class Mail 1 IV/1/12-13 VI/4/5 Cooper, Sr., Dave Allan What Is an Auxiliary Marking? Canadian Embargo Mail (with Tony Wawrukiewicz) VII/2/5 IV/1/14 Ellingson, Mike & Tony Wawrukiewicz Canadian Pacific Express, Uncalled For and Machine Cancel Service Markings Undeliverable Notices I/3/4 II/1/2-3 Elrod, Norman Insufficient Payment for Special Delivery Service The Search for Bem(?) Olmstead IV/1/9 VIII/2/12 Mainly from Our Friends Up North Estes, Glen (with Terence Hines) I/3/3 Back the Boys in the Trenches U.S. Short Paid Mail to Canada, 1975-2000 (with X/4/5 Tony Wawrukiewicz) Farrington, Merle C. IV/3/10-11 The Big Cheese World’s Most Damaged Cover II/2/2 III/2/10 Notice 5 of the USPS Concerning Undersized Mail Cosentini, George and Tony Wawrukiewicz Pieces Return to Sender/Writer Hands on Military Mail X/1/10-12 II/1/6-8 ‘Returned at Sender’s Request’ Crosby, Joe X/3/10 CORRECT Markings Are Also Known on Cover A Remarkable ‘RETURN TO WRITER’ IV/3/1 Handstamp/Obliterator Does It Really Matter? X/3/10 IV/1/1 ‘Test’ The ‘Forwarded by Hotel Adams’ Markings VI/3/11 IX/4/10-12 Fisher, Ingeburg The ‘Forwarded by Hotel Cobb’ Markings German Postal Checking Money Transfer Order X/2/7-8 III/1/8 Prisoner Mail – Massachusetts’ Reformatory Fricke, Charles A. IV/3/8 The Pointing Finger, Common but Scarce Star Route Auxiliary Marking I/2/5 VIII/2/7 Graue, Jim A Variation on a ‘Shedded’ Handstamp On “Auxiliary” Markings, an Editorial by Jim Graue VII/2/1 (quoted from the Airpost Journal) You Light Up My Life II/4/8-9 I/2/1 Hayes, James H. Davis, Steve B. The Espionage Act of WWI 1898 Hotel Pointing Hand: Forwarded and Returned to I/2/1 Writer An “Explosion” Cover IV/4/1 III/2/8 Auxiliary Markings on 6¢ Transport Military Mail A Polite Pointing Hand VIII/2/4 III/2/8 Pointing Hand from South Africa Dead Letter Office Hendron, Gary G. IV/4/12 Catcher Missed the Mail Bag? Deery, Michael II/4/5 Return to Sender/Service Suspended WWII Machine Hines, Terence Cancel Auxiliary Markings as Cancel? VII/3/10-12 IV/3/8 Denis, Gary Back the Boys in the Trenches (with Glen Estes) Auxiliary Markings on Washington Irving Covers X/4/5 III/3/7-8 Current British Return to Sender Markings Forwarding of Mail to Foreign Countries via Surface VII/2/3 and Airmail in the 1950s through the Present Day(with ‘Directory Service Given’ Tony Wawrukiewicz) X/4/4 IX/3/10-11 ‘Fee Not Claimed’ Various Auxiliary Markings X/3/7 VII/2/2 Free Airmail Forwarding Out of Country – Edmundson, L. Steve Nondenominated Item Use Big Enough for a Check – but not for a Postal Money IX/2/12 Order Held for Postage 2 IV/3/6 My Hand’s Bigger than Your Hand (with Tony ‘Name Is Not on Box Application’ Wawrukiewicz) IX/4/8 III/2/7 ‘No Such Office in State Named’ – Where was Released to the Homeland Marking Applied? II/4/9 IX/2/2 Kotanchik, Jim The Package is Returned and ‘Not for Carrier’ ‘Letter Returned by Carrier’ X/4/3 V/1/2-3 ‘Personal Receipt Demanded’ Pointing Hand Samples? V/1/8 V/2/4 A Strange Marking on a Stranger Cover Which Way Am I Going? VIII/1/3 V/2/1 A USPOD Handstamped Advertising Marking ‘Wqnruckj Trspnkigg’ = Undecipherable V/1/1 V/1/3 Hoffman, Regis Ladd, Dennis Hollywood Fan Mail Private Auxiliary Markings Basic Special Delivery Markings II/4/3 VIII/2/8-9 Private Markings on Hollywood Fan Mail: 2013 Delays in Delivering Mails Explained Update (with Thomas J. Richards) X/2/8 X/2/3-5 ‘Fist’ Hotchner, John VI/4/12 A Few Question Marks? Member Help Requested Hmmm? (with Tony Wawrukiewicz) X/4/6-7 IV/2/12 ‘Mail Trained’ Inclement Weather in Southern California? VI/1/11 V/3/3 ‘Surtaxed’ An Unusual Service Interrupted Marking VI/3/9 X/3/10 Johnson, Jerry ‘Return for Proper Carrier Endorsement’ Design Features of Pointing Hands X/2/5-6 III/1/9 Landau, Eliot Early Returned Printed Matter Unused or Reused, That Is the Question VII/4/1 II/4/2 An “INDEFINITE” cover Leeman, Bob IV/1/9 How Does the USPS Handle Mail That May Be More Short Paid Mail to Canada Addressed to a Non-existant [sic] Person? V/2/4 III/1/10 Night Air Mail More Handstamps of the Grand Rapids Post Office VI/4/11 III/3/2 Prohibited Forwarding Multi-Reason Handstamps III/2/7 III/1/11-12 Ramp H.F.P Pre-Inked Large Carrier Stamps for Sale (with Tony III/1/7 Wawrukiewicz) ‘Removed’ III/2/11-14 VIII/2/12 Pre-Inked Small Carrier Stamps for Sale There Are Myriad Markings Out There III/3/11-12 I/2/2 Some Thoughts about Eliot Landau’s Article in the Unmailable Private “Postal Cards” October 2005 Auxiliary Markings IX/2/3 III/1/11 Jones, Charles A. Lenz, Joanna Pre-World War II Invasion Cover with an Obscure A Train Wreck Ambulance Cover Marking X/3/5 IX/1/2 Liebson, Matthew Kasper, Jerry An Early Airmail Handstamp for Continental Airmail Rare Air Letter Auxiliary Marking Service IV/4/5 VII/4/11 Knell, Floyd ‘Your Box Rent is Due’ International Return to Sender labels X/4/4 III/2/9 Lokos, Rick It’s a Strange World A New EKU for the Dot Matrix Computer Generated IV/4/12 Tags 3 VI/4/1 IX/3/4-6 Ludeman, Michael M. What’s Falling Out of This Letter? Automating the Mail Forwarding Process IX/3/2-3 III/2/2-6 Masters, Christopher J. Auxiliary Marking Stamps Impressions for Carlisle A Few More Thoughts on ‘Correct’ Handstamps Post Office – 1946-7 V/4/8 VI/2/10-12 Forgery and Fantasy The Background on the Liberty Bonds Handstamp III/4/10 V/4/1 A Late Advertised Letter (with Tony Wawrukiewicz) Country Name Handstamps III/4/12 V/2/2-3 A New Clock-Faced Marking? ‘Damaged in Handling’ by USPS (with Tony V/4/2 Wawrukiewicz) A Painted Hand VIII/2/4-6 III/4/12 Fort Worth, Texas Dead Letter Office Section Please! Send It Back to Me if Not Deliverable Markings III/4/1 VIII/3/11-12 McNamee, David Held for Postage (with Norm Pence, Tom Breske, Auxiliary Markings on Tasmanian Mail: Part I – Tony Wawrukiewicz) Taxed and Underpaid Registration VIII/1/7-12 II/4/4-5 Mail Repair Book Reviews: T for Tax, Revised Edition, by Richard VII/3/2 Peck and Colin Salt; U for Underpaid, by Colin Salt Recall of Mail before Delivery VI/3/12 VIII/3/3 Mead, Michael “Received Under Cover .
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