Got a pile of US covers today. Here are some of the more interesting ones.
Obviously philatelic in origin, but still nice. SC#741 National Park with a three bar cancel from the U.S.S. Saratoga, Navy Day from Balboa, Canal Zone, October 27, 1934.
I thought there was only one of these, but there were two stuck together, they just separated on their own. Sent from the San Diego Army & Navy YMCA, first on December 8, then December 9, 1936. It's nice they have two different cancels.
Two Christmas post cards. What attracted me was the Christmas seals. The top card, postmarked December 19, 1923 from Orchard Park NY to Port Colbourne Ontario Canada.
The bottom is similar on the back, though with an earlier Washington 1˘ stamp, is postmarked December 19, 1912. It is postmarked from Niagara Falls NY to Berlin (now Kitchener) Ontario.
I've shown the front where two beautiful 1912 American Red Cross seals grace the corner.
This last one, postmarked in Rochester Wis. on August 19, 1903 with two SC#301 2˘ Washingtons, looks innocent enough. But the back tells a different story.
It is back canceled in Chicago on August 19 and again on August 20. Mr. Weed, the recipient, had apparently moved from Chicago. Three Wisconsin transit stamps, one from Burlington, another from Waterford, the third indecipherable, overlap. I wonder if the second Washington was added to cover the reroute.
Posted 04/07/2013 6:10 pm
