[HCDX] [radiostamps] EKKO stamps

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from http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld2196.txt

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Quite a number of readers also enjoy collecting radio related stamps 
and covers, and an interesting website is that of Bart Lee, San 
Francisco CA http://www.antiqueradios.com which includes an article 
on 
Radio Stamps. The United Fruit Company had one of the earliest radio 
networks to connect its Latin American operations and in 1910 they 
began issuing their own wireless franks, or kind of stamp. 

As radio became popular in the early 1920's, the EKKO Stamp Company 
started up business. They sold a postage like stamp featuring an 
eagle 
in the design, plus call letters to many hundreds of new US radio 
stations, and a similar stamp with a beaver for Canadian Some 
stations 
used their own designs, and WHAS Louisville KY wrote: It gives us 
great pleasure to send you our Verification Stamp No.1. Incidentally, 
we have five such stamps, respectively, for each successive report. 
There is, of course, no charge for these. We shall be most interested
to see you collect the entire series, and wish you luck. 

[captions:] EKKO Stamp 1934 WCKY `The Voice of Cincinnati`, Eric
Shackle Collection, NZRDXL Archives ©
WHAS Verification Stamp No.1, 1934. Eric Shackle Collection,
NZRDXL Archives ©

The eagle design was also used in Cuba. EKKO also issued its own 
stamp 
albums and collectors kits, and today these stamps are regarded as 
`cinderella` items by stamp collectors and are highly sought after as 
collectibles.

We`ve also come across a similar stamp used by the Tokyo Central 
Broadcasting Station in mid-1933 as part of a QSL card issued for 
JOAK. In fact, Japanese radio stations were prolific QSLers in the 
1930`'s, issuing well designed cards (in English) which made 
attractive additions to any DX collection of the era.

If you`re interested in art and design, you'll also know that `radio 
art` has closely followed the trends of the time, with many Art Deco 
logo designs (and studio buildings for that matter too) in the 1930s, 
moving into the `streamlined` look of the late 1940s and early 1950s, 
and the psychedelic designs of the late 1960s and early 1970s for 
example. These are reflected in bumper stickers, posters, Top 40 
charts, QSL cards, letterheads and station promotional materials. 
Some 
of these can be seen in `The Art of Radio` © in the Radio Heritage 
Collection © at http://www.radiodx.com where you`ll also find a 
growing number of other interesting radio articles (Dec NZ DX Times 
via DXLD)




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