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Can Anyone Attribute This Cancel (Walloon Issue)

 
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Posted 07/11/2011   10:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add ratio411 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I was wondering if anyone could attribute the cancel on this
5c stamp? I was wondering if it was a local cancel, town name,
old slogan, or... ????

Dave just won this stamp at auction, but the cancel has been
bugging me. It like I just quite can't nail down what it is
trying to say. I'm sure Dave would like to know too since the
stamp is headed his way very soon. Thanks!



It appears to me as:

HUNTER, OF LA.

HUNTER, _O FLA.

HUNTER(S) OF LA. would make some sense.
I just don't see an "S"... Looks like a comma.

It almost looks like there should be a letter
in front of the "O", which might make the "FLA."
run together and be a Florida cancel instead of
a Louisiana cancel... What do YOU see?
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Posted 07/11/2011   10:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Edited by jamesw - 07/11/2011 10:05 pm
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Posted 07/11/2011   10:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
We sure are seeing a lot of Walloons lately.
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Posted 07/11/2011   10:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ratio411 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ohhhhhh.............
THANK YOU!
That has been driving me up a wall.
I am used to seeing states abbreviated with 2 or 3 letters,
so the idea that would be a "K" in there totally went over my head!
Mystery solved.
I thought for sure it was Florida or Louisiana.
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Posted 07/11/2011   10:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ratio411 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
We sure are seeing a lot of Walloons lately.

Dave is going to see even more... I just noticed the crease in this one,
so I am sending it to him along with an extra if I can dig up a nicer one.
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Posted 07/12/2011   09:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Dave9911 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Okla, ahh. I was sure that k was an R when I looked at it, but that didn't make sense.
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