In 1960 she created the series Air Mail Landscape 2-a series of 10 stamps of Israel Post ( the third series of air mail stamps ) about Israel s cities and sites, thus being the second female stamp designer after Miriam Caroli ).
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"' Walter J . Conrath "'( January 20, 1907 May 7, 1942 ), of Pennsylvania, was a stamp collector who specialized in aerophilately, the study of air mail stamps, and wrote extensively on the subject.
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These include the 35 franc air mail stamp issued by Dahomey in 1995 to commemorate the tricentenary of his death, the 170 forint stamp issued as part of a set by Hungary in 1960, and a Monaco commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the fabulist's birth.
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After an intermittent series of government sponsored experimental flights between 1911 and 1918, domestic U . S . Air Mail was formally established as a new class of service by the United States Post Office Department on May 15, 1918, with the inauguration of the Washington-Philadelphia-New York route for which the first of special Air Mail stamps were issued.
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Gaston Doumergue, the President of France, bestowed the French L�gion d'honneur on Lindbergh, and on his arrival back in the United States aboard the U . S . Navy cruiser on, 1927, a fleet of warships and multiple flights of military aircraft escorted him up the Potomac River to the Washington Navy Yard, where President Calvin Coolidge awarded him the Air Mail stamp ( Scott C-10 ) depicting the " Spirit " and a map of the flight.
