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  Cover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of a contract for the receipt of goods.
Cover (topology), the mathematical concept of a collection of subsets of a set whose union is the whole set
Cover (intelligence), the purported occupation or purpose of an agent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cover   (187 words)

  
 Cover (philately) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In philately, a cover is an envelope or package, typically with stamps that have been cancelled.
Complete covers, as opposed to a front or a piece, may be referred as an entire.
A first day cover is typically an envelope with a postage stamp cancelled on its first day of issue.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Cover_%28philately%29   (212 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Cover
In telecommunication, cover is the technique of concealing or altering the characteristics of communications patterns for the purpose of denying an unauthorized receiver information that would be of value.
Note: Cover is a process of modulo two addition of a pseudorandom bit stream generated by a cryptographic device with bits from the control message.
In combat cover can either refer to a barrier (usually already at the scene of battle) which can be used for protection or concealment, or it can refer to the shielding or protection of persons on the battlefield (usually on the move) by those with either superior training/equipment, or in a more secure position.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Cover   (350 words)

  
 * Stampless cover - (Philately): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A cover which has passed through the posts since the introduction of postage stamps bearing some marking/s other than an adhesive stamp to indicate that postage has been paid...
This term usually refers to covers predating the requirement that stamps be affixed to all letters...
Stampless covers, either from the prestamp period or those that did not require a postage stamp for mailing, such as military free franks, are highly collectible...
www.mimihu.com /philately/stampless_cover.html   (146 words)

  
 World War 1 and 2 - Philatelic cover
A philatelic cover is a cover sent through the mails for the purpose of creating a collectible item.
While some collectors specialize in philatelic covers, especially first day covers and cacheted covers, others regard them as artificial objects that are not reflective of real-world usage, and will pay a higher price for "commercial covers".
covers sent in order to create legitimately used stamps, most often seen from countries that issue far more stamps than the inhabitants use, and where a used stamp may be more valuable than mint.
www.worldwardiary.com /history/Philatelic_cover   (324 words)

  
 Jefferson Davis Cover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The cover illustrates a number of different aspects of CSA Philately all in one cover.
These imprinted covers were for official use from the office of the CSA President.
As this cover shows, not even the President could send a letter free in the Confederacy as postage was to be collected from the addressee on delivery.
www.jlkstamps.com /long/davis.htm   (318 words)

  
 Backstamp - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This reverse of a 1932 cover sent from Rae in the Northwest Territories to Toms River, New Jersey has a Toms River backstamp.
A backstamp, in philately, is a postmark on the back of a cover (almost invariably an envelope), showing a post office or station through which the cover passed in transit.
Mail that has had complex routings can have a dozen or more backstamps; although such covers may look positively flened with the overlapping marks, they are not common, and highly valued by collectors of postal history.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Backstamp   (190 words)

  
 Ship cover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cacheted cover postmarked on the battleship USS Colorado (BB-45) during Fleet Week, August 1933.
In philately, a ship cover is a cover that was mailed aboard a ship, while a naval cover is one posted on a navy vessel.
Collectors of ship covers will look for different types used at different periods, as well as for covers indicating routing through particular ports, and so forth.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naval_cover   (173 words)

  
 Manchoukuo Collection is Pleasant Pursuit
I've seen the occasional cover with an imperforate pair tied (meaning, the single postmark strikes both the affixed stamps and the cover).
While first-day covers can be had from the first issues on, those of 1938-45 are far more common and are each priced in the $10-16 range.
Covers sent through the mail, such as the registered-mail example pictured in Figure 6, offer much to study, including the application of appropriate rates.
www.michaelrogersinc.com /articles/collectingmanchukuo.html   (1542 words)

  
 Cover (philately)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Complete covers, as opposed to a front or a piece, may be referred asan entire.
The term originates from the practice of covering a letter by folding a separate sheet about it to physically protect andprevent infringement of confidentiality.
A first day cover is typically an envelope with a postage stampcancelled on its first day of issue.
www.therfcc.org /cover-philately--180029.html   (168 words)

  
 Postal Services Department Homepage (Philatelic)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
First Day Cover are issued to complement a new stamp issue.
Covers will be affixed with the newly issued stamps and cancelled with a special first day of issue datestamp.
However, first day covers are available at all post office counters, but only on the first day of stamp issue.
www.brunet.bn /gov/post/phil.htm   (462 words)

  
 Cover - TheBestLinks.com - Cover version, Cover (topology), Disambig, Cover (telecommunications), ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cover - TheBestLinks.com - Cover version, Cover (topology), Disambig, Cover (telecommunications),...
Cover, Cover version, Cover (topology), Disambig, Cover (telecommunications)...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.thebestlinks.com /Cover.html   (164 words)

  
 Cover (philately) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cover (philately) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
In (The collection and study of postage stamps) philately, a cover is an (A flat rectangular paper container for papers) envelope or (A wrapped container) package, typically with (A symbol that is the result of printing) stamps that have been cancelled.
A (additional info and facts about first day cover) first day cover is typically an envelope with a postage stamp cancelled on its first day of issue.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Co/Cover_(philately).htm   (199 words)

  
 FOCUS ON PHILATELY: Postal history II: an unusual UPA-related cover (08/01/99)
This month's example of postal history deals with a cover that had proper postage affixed and was officially canceled; however, it never passed through regular postal channels and was not delivered to any specific address.
The entire four-month commemorative journey of this cover, as indicated by the markings on the front and back (Figure 5), was as follows.
Additional insignia cancellations that appear on the back of the cover are those of the Royal Air Force Museum, the Dutch 344th Tactical Air Squadron and the Cross of Former Members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/319921.shtml   (1212 words)

  
 * Combination cover - (Philately): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Also stamps of the same country canceled at two different times on the same cover as a souvenir...
Postal evelope that bears the stamps of more than one country which was paid the postage for different portions of the journey.
Combination cover: Cover bearing the stamps of more than one country when separate postal charges are paid for the transport of a cover by each country.
www.mimihu.com /philately/combination_cover.html   (154 words)

  
 PerĂº, Philately, Philippines, Photography, Pitcairn Islands & Poland Covers & Postal History
Express airmail cover from Lima to Oak Park Michigan franked with mixed currency stamps: S/0.70 Ocho Reales coin and two l/m 0.40 HABILITADO overprints on 50,000 Antarctic expedition penguin stamps (one of which has a few missing perfs at the bottom).
Lot of 4 covers airmailed in 1992 - 1993 to Columbus Ohio with 0.90 meter strips of varying sizes on yellowish brown paper cut by hand from larger sheets, tied by cancels of the Miraflores Post Office at Lima.
We believe, therefore, these are on-cover examples of provisional stamps--locally printed in imperforate sheets and cut from it with scissors when needed.
lotsofstamps.com /LotsOfCovers/PeruToPoland.htm   (3994 words)

  
 AOL Classifieds: Other World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nicely cachetted First Flight cover issued for the 1st Flight from Rockland to Augusta on May 19th 1938.
The cover shows an large image, commemoration the Burma Mar...
Philately item- Tel Aviv1948 May 5 th strike at back.
classifieds.aol.com /global/1/1000825/1000828/s1/00010.htm   (628 words)

  
 Frajola's Philatelist Board II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is a cover sent from the Italian PO in Rhodes on Jan. 18, 1913 to the German PO in Constantinople.
I recently picked up an interesting cover, which I hope Richard will post for me. It is a domestic US return receipt cover dated 18 July 1910 (backstamps confirm the date).
Second, the datestamp of origin is on the front of the cover (and the back); from late 1909 on, US registered covers were supposed to be datestamped only on the back.
www.kbnet.com /cgi-bin/read?book=frajolaboard&page=2   (4449 words)

  
 Radio Shows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The U.S. Mint is selling "covers" commemorating the release of its new one-dollar coin and Massachusetts quarter.
A cover in philately -- in stamp collecting -- is an envelope with a stamp and cancel.
The Mint has affixed the new coins and a flag stamp to cards, and had the stamp postmarked on the first day the coins were available to the public, January first for the Sacagawea dollar or January third for the quarter.
www.virtualstampclub.com /radiostuff/000310.html   (208 words)

  
 Cover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Virtually all pop musicians play covers, as tributes to their mentors, or on the theory that what was a hit before may be a hit again, or to gain credibility from their comparison with the original.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was "to hide from view" as in its cognate covert.
Except in the limited sense of "cover again", the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate.
www.city-search.org /co/cover.html   (488 words)

  
 COVER FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cover_(law), a remedy for the breach of a contract for the receipt of goods.
Cover_band, a musical band that plays only cover versions
Cover_(topology), the mathematical concept of a collection of subsets of a set whose union is the whole set
www.witwib.com /index.php?s=cover   (109 words)

  
 math lessons - Postal history
The term has also come to refer to collections of covers and other material illustrating episodes in postal history.
As that discipline developed, philatelic students discovered that understanding and authentication of postage stamps depending on knowing why postal administrations issued particular stamps, where they were used, and how.
There is much that is still not known about the workings of postal systems, and millions of old covers have survived, constituting a rich field of "artifacts" for analysis.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Postal_history   (218 words)

  
 Frajola's Philatelist Board II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To determine whether you should get the cover expertized, check to see whether the dimensions of the printed stamp measure the (taller, narrower) dimensions of Scott 498 or the (shorter, wider) dimensions of a stamp from a Scott 498e booklet pane.
The cover was held until 1920 and was then returned to Germany via the USA (see the reverse), arriving back in Bremerhaven on May 6, 1920, some 6 years after it was mailed.
My suspicion is that this is the non duplex small presidential and than the cover in question has the large duplex presidential, but of course, not having the cover, that must be uncertain.
www.kbnet.com /cgi-bin/read?book=frajolaboard&page=2   (6400 words)

  
 First Day Covers and Postal History of GB from Andrew Curd Philately
COV0067 GV cover with a 6d cypher sent to Capetown from Cambridge on 24/6/36.
Cover did not reach its destination and was finally returned to sender in July 1937, over a year later !.................
Book is from the Mr Punch series 1 Cover has small amount of damage, but still a very interesting item.
www.fortunecity.co.uk /business/sky/93/FDC.html   (1148 words)

  
 About cd cover and related topics ...
- Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package
- Cover (topology), the mathematical concept of a collection of subsets of a set whose union is the whole set
- Cover (military), a form of protection in combatde:Cover
www.cdonkey.com /cd-cover.htm   (139 words)

  
 Search Engine for AC All Collectibles
3 Philately Covers related to Israel 1 cover issued by the Unite Nation Organization on October 24th, 1950.
Limited edition No. 1790.2 covers from 1958 related to an Israel stamp exhibition in Austria, organized by the Zionistic Federation in Austria.
of China: Scarce philately commemoration stamp: Mao and US GeneralThis is a hard to find commemorative souvenir sheet, issued by the San Xia, Yi Chang Philately society.
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 cover - OneLook Dictionary Search
Cover : AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
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 Space Cover Servicers - Space Coast Philately, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Angelo J. Taiani has a subscription service for STS missions at $1.60 per launch or landing ($2.50 overseas), utilizing mission envelopes.
Photo cachets are added to these covers resulting in unavoidable delays from time to time.
Stocks of past manned and unmanned covers are available.
www.spacephilatelics.com /scp.html   (148 words)

  
 Czechoslovak Philately   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The archives contain both the archives for the What's New and for the Cover of the Month.
The Society for Czechoslovak Philately (SCP) is an international organization founded in 1939 which is devoted to the collecting, study of, education, and publicizing all aspects of philately represented by geographic areas of the former Czechoslovakia.
As of January 1998, we have been featuring an interesting Czechoslovak related cover each month.....
www.czechoslovakphilately.com   (267 words)

  
 Cover (philately)
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April 20, 1998 -- Rebel without S OME people get their kicks from philately (spending hours alone in their bedrooms, licking their hinges), while others prefer to enter...
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