COVER N. 417 - USA

Postmark: Farmers Market Los Angeles CA 90036-3109 12.02.2024 

Posted on the 12th February; Received on the 4th March 2024

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Thanks a lot Myron, for this beautiful cover with some nice aviation related stamps and such a striking postmark, that I couldn't resist looking up what the Farmers Market is on the internet. Hope you had a nice time visiting it :-).

I always associate  high roof wooden barns such as the one we see on the little stamp on the left upper corner of the cover, with America... it's probably a movie related thing, but even if the little stamp had not USA written on it I would have no doubts as to its origin... 

On 24JAN2021, USPS issued a four stamp definitive set with some very nice images of barns, associated to the seasons of the year.

The one on the cover is a Gambrel roofed barn, depicted on a nice summer day as the sun goes down on the horizon. Having no face value, its marked as Postcard tariff, same as the other three companion stamps on the set.

The remaining three stamps are part of a ten 37 cents stamp set issued on 29JUL2005, dedicated to "American advances in aviation". From left to right we have:

- Northrop YB-49 Flying wing, an experimental development of the YB 35 Flying wing bomber developed by Northrop just after the second world war,  with  eight Allison TG-180 (J35) turbojet engines in the place of the four original four Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radial engines, driving contra-rotating propellers, of the YB-35.

- Boeing B-29 Superfortress,  one of the most famous bombers of WW2, which had to its credit the dropping of the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

- Consolidated PBY 5 Catalina, one of the most successful and perennial flying boats in the history of aviation, as attested by the fact that there is still a significant (for such old airframes)  number of them surviving in operational conditions to this day.