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Apr 1 (edited) • The Research Room
An interesting 1938 cover from New Zealand
This 1938 cover, from New Zealand to the USA, is attractive but not spectacular. However, the recipient's name stood out when I saw it. Reginald Denny was a successful Hollywood actor.
The cover was sent from Model Aircraft Supplies in Christchurch, which begs the question why they would be writing to an actor at an address other than "c/- MGM" etc.
The reason is that Denny was a mad aircraft hobbyist, who opened a hobby store on Hollywood Boulevard in 1935. It makes perfect sense for the shop in Christchurch to write to him. Denny also established "Radioplane", a maker of military target drones. (An interesting bit of info here, in 1944 an army photographer took some shots of a Radioplane employee named Norma working on a drone. Norma later changed her name to Marilyn Monroe!)
The cover is franked with SG91 and SG92, both have which are scarce with inverted and reversed watermarks, but these seem "normal".
The two red marks across the airmail label makes this a jusqu'a cover. Jusqu'a means "up to", or in philatelic terms "as far as". The cover is marked "via Air Mail to England". The jusqu'a markings were applied when the cover arrived in England, and the cover would then have continued it's journey to the US by sea. Unfortunately, there are no other markings on the cover.
So we have a cover to a movie star doing his "other" job, with a link to another movie star before she was discovered. Not to mention that it's a fascinating little piece of postal history.
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An interesting 1938 cover from New Zealand
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