2011 HERBERT COVER CONTEST
RULES AND CATEGORIES
TO BE DECIDED BY VOTE OF THOSE PRESENT:
- Advertising Cover with the most obsolete item being advertised.
- Most interesting Cover with a February 14 postmark (St. Valentine’s Day).
- Cover with the most interesting auxiliary postal marking.
- Cover with the most interesting semi-postal stamp.
- Cover with the ugliest U.S.A. issued stamp or stamps.
TO BE DECIDED BY A PANEL OF JUDGES:
- Cover with most different stamps denominated in more than one currency.
- Cover with the smallest stamp (sum of length plus width).
- Cover with most different postage due stamps.
- Earliest philatelic cover.
- Most recent April Fools Day (April 1) cover.
- All items submitted must have been used (cancelled with a postmark or other device). Unless otherwise specified a cover can be an envelope, post card, or postal card, folded letter, postal stationery, or document that shows payment of postage and/or postal fees.
- A reminder to individual category winners, your newsletter editor would like a photocopy or scan of your winning entry to be published in the next edition of the newsletter.
