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Posted 03/18/2011   9:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add jaxstamper to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I'm unfamiliar with the following cancel. I assume it is some variety of Barry machine cancel, given the Oswego postmark. I have never seen this particular one before, at least not on an entire. Was this a common cancel I just happen to have not seen, or an experimental? Thanks!

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Posted 03/19/2011   12:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Russ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is a Barry experimental Hanmer #4. The machine was a Model LA6. This machine was used from 1906-1909 and was the last Barry used. In 1909 they went to an International then about 1915 they went to Universal until about 1964.

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Posted 03/19/2011   01:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Amazing knowledge there Russ,

Any idea what the advertising on the card refers to?
"Litho Chrome" (the "chrome" part)
Was this a new colour advancement?
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Posted 03/19/2011   02:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Russ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Litho-Chrome
Litho-Chrome is a trade name for a type of German made postcard distributed by the American News Company that was printed as a blue collotyope over yellow and red lithographic spatter. Their individual colors are sharp and tend to stand out, especially the blue as it is used instead of black. It is sometimes so heavy that it renders scenes highly unnatural. They are drawn more toward more solid tones than to texture though an actual wormy texture is embossed into the paper.
(metropostcard.com)

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Posted 03/19/2011   04:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Goodness me,
that's brilliant Russ (accidental pun)
thank you very much.

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Posted 03/19/2011   06:20 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rohumpy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Any chance of seeing the picture side, Russ. Fascinating explanation.
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Posted 03/19/2011   08:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jaxstamper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for that explanation, Russ; I find it remarkable that the example you dug up was postmarked on the same day as mine. I would show the opposite side of mine, but it is a Rotograph of the Oswego railroad tunnel and county courthouse, an effect that makes it look almost as if the image were handpainted onto the card; the depth really doesn't come through well in a photo.

On a separate note, that machine struck whatever it cancelled very heavily. You can both see and feel the cancel on the picture side of the postcard, which is fairly thick stock.
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