Aerogramme: The official Universal Postal Union designation for an airletter sheet. These sheets, with gummed flaps, are written on and folded into themselves to form their own envelope and are carried at less than the letter airmail rate.
Aerogramme A sheet of paper that is foldable with gummed flaps to seal it. It is a cheap mode of sending letters by air mail.
Aerogrammes
Lightweight postal stationery, otherwise known as Air Letter Sheets, used for the economical transmission of letters by air.
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Aerogramme
Term adopted by UPU (q.v.) in 1951 to denote special letter sheets printed on lightweight paper and intended to be sent by airmail. (q.v. Air Letter).
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The use of aerogrammes was officially endorsed at the 1952 Universal Postal Union Postal Union Congress in Brussels.[1]
The production of United States aerograms has ceased.[2][when?]
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postal items such as aerogrammes, International Reply Coupons, postage stamps, philatelic products, postal cards, stamped envelopes and postal cards, blank postal money order forms, migratory-bird hunting and conservation stamps, or any unsold item, ...
Aerogram - See Aerogramme.
Aerogramme - Printed and gummed writing-sheet designed to be folded and sealed to form a lightweight air-mail letter. Usually made of thin paper and printed with the appropriate postal duty.
Postal Stationery: Envelopes, postal cards, and aerogrammes with stamps printed on them. Or, stationery bearing imprinted stamps, as opposed to adhesive stamps.
For each air letter and aerogramme, information is provided on first day of use, quantity issued, history and design, format, dimensions, paper, printing varieties and special flights, cachets, and cancellations.
Price/each:
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Envelope entires, cut squares, postal cards, aerogrammes.
Some issues listed are available in quantities.
All items are clean, mint entires unless otherwise specified.
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Postal stationery includes postal cards, lettercards, imprinted envelopes, wrappers, aerogrammes, telegraph cards, postal savings forms and similar government-produced items. Some early postcards had no imprinted stamp.
The seven-color web fed press has been used as the workhorse press for the majority of all U.S. multicolored commemorative stamps since that time; it has also produced some aerogramme's. It is officially designated by the BEP as Press 601.
Ramkissoon, "Air Letter Sheets (Aerogrammes) of Trinidad and Tobago 1943-1995," also British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group award; Robert G. Rufe, "U.S.
 See also: Aerogram, Stamp, Cover, Used, Sheet
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