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Posted 07/11/2012   8:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add 597596 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I found these cut squares in an envelope that has been well hidden in my collection. Just stumbled across them today along with a few other cut squares. Are cancellations such as these even sought after from Philatelic collectors? I know they are significant to WWII.











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Posted 07/11/2012   9:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Not so much. If they were entires, they would be attractive as penalty envelopes. The Albrook Field one is interesting in that the name of Albrook changed a few times through the years (Albrook Field, Albrook Air Force Base, Albrook Airfield).
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I sold a "France Field" like yours on a postcard last month for $15. Put these up as a group, somebody will buy them, my guess is $5-8.
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Posted 07/11/2012   9:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 597596 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's a shame that these got cut down into squares.

I was just reading on Fort Clayton.

[When the 33rd Inf. departed for war in 1941 they had at 25 years the longest record of continuous CZ service for any unit of the U.S. Army and were rightly considered the premier jungle trained unit in the Army.]

Good stuff, I don't think I would have learned this had I not ran across these cancels.
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Posted 07/11/2012   9:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 597596 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I just notice the back sides of these cancels have the following typed,

C.V. Banner
PO BOX 137
Fort Amador, CZ
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smauggie,

Here's an entire, but nothing exciting.




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I sold a "France Field" like yours on a postcard last month for $15.


France Field certainly not as ubiquitous as Balboa, Cristobal or Balboa Heights, but it is not a rare cancel (now if you had a La Boca cancel, be sure to let me know).

It is a bit funny to think that I have been to each of the towns/bases that you have cancels for.

Not in 1940, though.

In fact I was in Panama recently (3 weeks ago). Albrook Air Field is now dominated by the Albrook Mall. Something to rival the "Mall of America" here in Minnesota.

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