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Rocket Mail of the Worlda prominent Dutch philately magazine Maandblad voor de Philatelie. Gerhard Zucker also used simple fireworks-style rockets fueled by black powder, and had less-thanscientific motives. After kicking him out of Great Britain, the General Post Office said, %u201cthe scientific development of rocket conveyance is of less importance to Herr Zucker than the manufacture of philatelic curiosities.%u201d Each of the Rocket Mail experimenters knew they could enhance the salability of their covers and cards by sticking on colorful labels, affixing cachets, adding signatures, or including an envelope stuffer, which they did. And philatelists snapped them up. But in the final analysis, much of the Rocket Mail produced did little to advance the science of rocketry, and it certainly didn%u2019t change the way mail was delivered. However, despite its gimmicky quality, none of this has dampened the enthusiasm of aerophilatelists for Rocket Mail%u2014even when the flights were unsuccessful. To this day, it remains a popular niche area for collectors.About This CollectionThis collection consists of Rocket Mail covers and cards, as well as rocket stamps and souvenir sheets. All are identified by their EZ number as listed in the 1967 Ellington-Zwisler Rocket Mail Catalog and the 1973 supplement, the Ellington-Zwisler Rocket Mail Catalog Volume 2. All the items in this collection are arranged alphabetically by country, then numerically within each country by their EZ flight numbers (which were assigned chronologically). For each item contained herein, the first line of the caption lists the city or town where the rocket flight took place, the date of the flight (which may differ from the postmark), the EZ catalog number, the individual or organization responsible for the launch, and, if known, the number of items flown (in parentheses). The second line contains relevant philatelic information about the flight. The last portion of the caption contains English translations of any foreign-language text on the cachet, the rocket stamp, other items on the cover, or the back. This collection does not strive to be a complete set of all Rocket Mail items ever produced, but rather it is a representative collection containing covers, cards, as well as rocket stamps and souvenir sheets from a variety of countries and eras.U. S. Rocket Mail launch on June 8, 1959 using a Regulus I missile fired from the deck of the USS Barbero.Catalog NumberingThe first digit in the Ellington-Zwisler Catalognumbering system (after the EZ-) is the flight number for that country. It is followed by one of five capital letters:A. indicating a rocket stampB. indicating a proof or essayC. indicating a cover or cardD. indicating a souvenir cover or an item that was not flownP. indicating postal stationery prepared by the Post Office. The last digit (which is sometimes followed by a lower-case letter) identifies variations within the above capital-letter categories.