A souvenir card issued and canceled on 25 December 1933, commemorating the homecoming of Col. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh on their returning home for Christmas from their six-months map-making tour of the world’s airways.
Issued by (with “compliment”) Lykens Club Cachets. Evidence available from news articles confirms that Lykens had a stamp club during the 1930s and that the Lindbergh cachet was one of the club cachets that was offered to members and the public.
Machine Canceled at Lykens Post Office, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Souvenir cards of this type were sometimes issued by stamp clubs or commercial cachet makers with no relationship to the city where they were issued or canceled. In this case, there is nothing to suggest that Lindbergh had anything to do with Lykens in December 1933, except that on an earlier tour Lindbergh promoted the idea of painting town and airport names in large white letters on the roofs of buildings to assist aviators in finding the airport. By 1933, the “Lykens” name on a building roof had worn so badly that the town was begging for $25 to pay for the cost of repainting.
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