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Does Anybody Reconise This Overprint On Postal Stationery?

 
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Posted 12/29/2012   6:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add new12collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Is this like the "post office department- official use" overprints or is it something different? I presume the "section 435 1/2" it is referring to is a section in the post office guide?



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Edited by new12collector - 12/29/2012 6:49 pm

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Posted 12/29/2012   7:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's a section in the Guide, possibly one which requires the use of a "mute" cancel on 3rd or 4th class mail, as it was called in that era. I found a reference in Google, but it serves only to help date the cancel:

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"But what about Sec. 435˝ P.L.& R.?

If you have Sec. 435˝ P.L.& R. marked on your envelope.....it's pre- October 1, 1932. I don't yet have a verifiable start date for this mandatory notation, but I'm working on it." [Postal Laws & Regulations]
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Posted 12/29/2012   10:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here's more than you'll ever want to (or care to) know about that section of P. L. & R.(Postal Laws and Regulations):

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Posted 12/31/2012   7:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jobi01 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You have a locally precanceled enveloped. Collectable but not valuable.
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Posted 12/31/2012   8:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's not a precancel, it's simply a mute [machine] cancel, as required, and the rubber stamp indicates the allowable 3rd class rate of 1c per piece.
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