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Pillar Of The Community

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Posted 01/21/2011   9:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add chasa to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Here are some non-standard things you run across....

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Posted 01/21/2011   9:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Russ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Love the "SORRY TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE". Nice stuff.
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Posted 01/21/2011   9:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chasa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I thought the 'cattle crossing, PA' was appropriate :)
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Posted 01/21/2011   9:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Russ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You're right the Cattle Crossing in rather ironic.
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Bedrock Of The Community
United States
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Posted 01/21/2011   10:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There must be a story behind the "Temporarily Out of Stock" stamp. Perhaps from Sears or Montgomery Ward?

Was it a deliberate attempt to create an "oddity" or was it done by accident?
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Posted 01/21/2011   10:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chasa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
a stamp dealer made up a rubber stamp and abused some 1/2 cent prexies
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Posted 01/22/2011   12:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fantastic! what a pot pourri.
Cattle Crossing is my fav.
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Posted 01/22/2011   01:28 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add frankie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
EDWARDS and MC FALL Missouri are listed in the catalog as well as MARISSA, Ill and EMERSON, NJ, but all with different devices. The Mc Fall could very well be an unlisted 621. Cattle Crossing is my favorite also. Would love to know the origins of all of these. Thanks for sharing Chasa!

Frankie
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Posted 01/23/2011   11:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chasa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here are a few more. If you visit one of the bigger precancel roundups, the old-timers can sometimes tell you who made some of these weeds. The next big one is in Tampa FL in February.

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Posted 01/24/2011   12:07 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Baked Alaska!
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Posted 01/24/2011   03:15 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Never knew some of these "fantasy precancels" existed, but found a couple of websites that displayed some others. Here's one example:

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Posted 01/24/2011   11:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
By the way, Chasa, The Orlando issue you showed is it not a "Souvenir' for the PSS Convention in 1953.
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