The "Pray For Peace" Slogan Cancel

Anyone familiar with used US stamps from the late 40s on has seen it, but when was it first used? Does anyone know?

I have come across quite a number of them lately, so now I've decided to see if I can get one on each stamp issued while this slogan was in use.

Things are busy right now with Christmas and all, but I will go into this in earnest in the New Year. In the meantime, anyone finding any that they don't really want, please set them aside for the moment until I'm able to actually sit down and figure out what ones I have, and which ones I need. I've got a hodge-podge of stuff to process in five stockbooks I've got to consolidate first (yeah, things have gotten away on me lately).

Thanks.

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Wpg:

I trade with a gentleman in Minot, NDak. on a regular basis. Most of the letters he sends me are cancelled with a slightly newer version of the "Pray For Peace" machine slogan. Interesting. No spray-on postmarks from Minot.

I like the machine cancels. The stamps are not al smudged... it's a clean cancel.

David

Wpg:

I trade with a gentleman in Minot, NDak. on a regular basis. Most of the letters he sends me are cancelled with a slightly newer version of the "Pray For Peace" machine slogan. Interesting. No spray-on postmarks from Minot.

I like the machine cancels. The stamps are not al smudged... it's a clean cancel.

David

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Wow...they're still using that slogan? Something tells me that it's going to take a while to do this.

Yeah, you're right about the spray cancels -- they totally suck. They're ugly, and yes they do smudge. I don't know why Canada Post ever started using them. What bugs me most about them is that it seems that more often than not, I find foreign stamps that have been spray cancelled also, along with their original cancel. Luckily, most of my correspondents know enough to put the stamps lower on the envelope and more to the centre.


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