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L.m.a. Dunkirk?

 
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Posted 05/09/2013   07:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add northernvirginiaguy to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I know of a Dunkirk, New York. Does anyone know what the "L.M.A." is for?

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Posted 05/09/2013   09:34 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zuzu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I found this:


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L.M.A. (or L.M.Agt.): Local Mail Agent (railway mail transfer clerk (q.v.))


http://www.geocities.com/tonygoodbody/abbrev.htm
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Posted 05/09/2013   10:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add northernvirginiaguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thanks Zuzu - I think that solves it!
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Posted 05/09/2013   10:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I agree with Zuzu about the postal marking. Here's a further published excerpt to support it:



By the way, don't neglect looking up the addressee of that cover, Powell Bros. of Springboro(ugh), Pennsylvania, as there is a philatelic connection there, too, as per this article published in 2007 in The Texas Philatelist:

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Posted 05/09/2013   10:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zuzu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Once again, I bow to the master wt1.
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