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Red Or Orange Or Blue - Is This An Express Cancel?

 
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Posted 07/09/2013   06:01 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Always-Learning to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hey folks.

I was looking at this today, after reading another thread about orange cancels, and my memory kicked in about a stamp I had that looked like an Orange cancel.

Im not sure if it is or not, but I was hoping someone could tell me if the blue boxed cancel is an express carrier marking? My other thought was maybe railroad. What do you think?





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Posted 07/09/2013   08:19 am  Show Profile Check sinclair2010's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add sinclair2010 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The cancel is red and I am 99% positive the blue boxed cancel is German.
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Posted 07/09/2013   5:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chipg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm 1% positive that the blue boxed cancel is German:
http://www.cgpostal.com/12cent/slide61.jpg
http://www.cgpostal.com/12cent/slide65.jpg

If you add them together (99 + 1), you can be pretty certain of that.

As for the red, Baltimore typically used an ugly (blotchy) red cancellation on foreign mail transiting through there:
http://www.cgpostal.com/12cent/slide71.jpg

This is a bit less certain, as there were other places that also used red, including NYC - especially when cancelling supplementary mail:
http://www.cgpostal.com/12cent/slide37.jpg

regardless, it is a pretty stamp, with the black complemented by the other two colors of the postal markings.
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Very impressive, as usual, gentlemen!

Very nice stamp, as well, Always-Learning!

Ah, the nice stamps. Those are the ones that are never in my collection. But at least I can enjoy seeing them here...

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Posted 07/09/2013   6:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Always-Learning to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for your help. I would never have guessed a German cancellation!
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