Cut Squares ID Help

Here are a few of the tonage of cut squares/postal stationary that I need ID'd. Didn't want to overwhelm anyone with my stockpile so I am posting a few. The last one is really weird. Totally unrelated to postal stationary, if anyone has any tips on how to upload items to make them huge, please let me know. I have some stampless letters that are written in Spanish that I would love to have translated (which I have tried and posted before) but could not get them to enlarge. Thanks.

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I'm out at Westpex, sans catalogs, getting ready for the flight home tomorrow. Great show, btw.

But, just to get things going . . .

The first five are "cut squares" of postal cards, which are not recognized as generally acceptable postal stationery items. Cut squares of envelopes are covered in the Scott catalogs, but not cut squares of postal cards. The UPSS catalogs recognize neither.

I'll leave the others to someone with a catalog in hand, or till I get home.

The last one, however is a pitch into my wheelhouse, stationery EFOs. It is a cut square of an over-inked U429. Too bad it wasn't an entire.

ilovelabbies, actually, it looks like all of your images can be clicked on to see larger versions.

(Also, I spy a Nebraska cancel )

Hi Thomas, should I just pitch the first five then since they are not recognized? Hope you had a great trip!

Zuzu, yes I actually seen where I finally made things bigger. I am going to take another stab at posting my Spanish stampless cover letters to see if anyone can translate. Thanks.

I'm not a postal stationery specialist, but since no one has yet identified the cut squares you posted, let me try:

Thank you so much wt1, much appreciated

Seems to me that you must know a lot about postal stationary.

I just try and read the info. presented in the catalog. True postal stationery specialists have specialized catalogs that I don't have available, so I only base the information on what is in the Scott catalog which doesn't always go into the needed detail for some of the varieties out there.

Thomas Galloway is one of at least two postal stationary experts on SCF. Items 3 & 4 are missing the value, and are not much more than curiosities.

ilovelabbies: I can't tell you to ditch them, as someone will point out that there is a collector (or two) out there somewhere who has them in his album. I can tell you that if I obtained them in a bulk lot, I would feed them to my shredder.

wt1: good stab. I would go with U58 over U59 (but we are at the mercy of the scanner). U294 v. U94 (U94 must be a typo). U382 v. U379 (looks like blue paper to me).

Thanks for your input.

The U58 is on white paper and the U59 on buff paper, so as you suggest, the scanner can be deceptive on that one.

I stand corrected on the U294, as it was just a dropped digit when I ID'd that one...it should have read U294.

The U382 v. U379 is that one I'm still puzzled over. You suggest it looks like "blue" paper ... but I just don't see it, or if it is blue paper it is certainly not as deep of a blue as the other cut squares that clearly are on blue paper. Then again, maybe the scan or our respective color monitors can be deceptive.

I like that War Department three cent postal stationery franking. Also the EFO. Neat stuff!

In the original post, 4th row, second from left---What type of hand cancel is that?

Thanks for the 94 vs. 294 update. I knew that didn't fit in my Scott Postal Stationary Album because it didn't have the right head.

The U58 vs U59, I happened to already have these in my book (silly me) the color pink matched up better to the U59 I had so I am calling in a U59 extra. Note: should the color of pink be the same shade in these two??

The U379 that wt1 called is actually on blue paper so it is a U382.

What is an EFO?

You are all so very helpful and it is much appreciated. Thank you again. I have tons more so I might post some others in the near future.

EFO = Errors, Freaks and Oddities.

wt1: I have this memory of a U382 on pale blue paper, but I can't even find any U382's right now, so I will back off my call until I can find that sucker.

I don't know if it helps (monitors can be deceptive) but this is an image from a current ebay listing purported to be a U382 (blue paper):



And another listing for a U382 (blue paper) cut square as compared to the originally scanned example that I thought was a U379 (but maybe a U382):