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Posted 12/25/2011   1:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wt1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I suppose that postmarks for December 25th are not all that common (and certainly unheard of today) but in their time, Christmas Day postmarks do exist, as in this envelope cut square example from 1937 in Kyserike, NY:



I find it rather interesting that Kyserike, NY is a discontinued post office having been in operation only from 1904-1954. I can't even find the town on a map; the best information I have suggests it was a small hamlet in Ulster County, NY in its day and at one point had its own train station.

One would think that December 25th postmarks would be limited to large cities such as New York or Chicago, but not in this case.

Does anyone else have any December 25th postmarks they would like to share?
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Railway Post Office:
'ANNAPOLIS & YARMOUTH / EAST / DEC 25 / 95 / M.C.'
Annapolis Royal and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Mail Coach (or car), traveling Eastwards towards Annapolis Royal from Yarmouth along a section of the Dominion Atlantic Railway Co. (DAR) (incorporated in 1894, leased by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1911.)

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Posted 12/26/2011   08:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ncbuckeye to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Kyserike, NY is an unincorporated community in Ulster county a little northwest of Poughkeepsie, NY. In the "early" days, it was not uncommon for a post office to be situated in an unincorporated community close to a commuter railroad station. The proximity of Kyserike to New York City would lead me to believe that this was a possibility.
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