Like Randall, I see the tail of the 9 ending flush with the stem, and the tail of the 5 ending far outside the stem, thus making me lean towards 1915.
A one-week discrepancy between subject & postmark is notable, but it is noteworthy? My brother once left a whole summer session's worth of daily postcards with his roommate at the Sorbonne ("test went well", "studying hard", etc) and promptly headed off to East Berlin & Yugoslavia to see if life behind the Iron Curtain was really as bad as it was made-out to be (this was ~1962). Roommate got lazy, parents got alarmed, Interpol found him ... that a postcard might sit at a hotel for a week before it made it to the post office belongs to the set of known events.
At a recent Siegel auction, that a stamp had been lifted for examination was just one more fact in the description of a cover. Nobody ran from the room. YMMV.
Quote: Here is what a five looked like in those cancels, more of a lift in the center.
Notice that the 5 in 1915 doesn't look at all like the 5 in 5:30. I don't think this postmark is useful for any comparisons at all. It seems to me that the mark in question must be compared only with itself and not with any other.
It's an 8 NOT a 5 or a 9 so stop your bickering OK?...also the inverted 7 in the CDS adds absolutely no premium to the cover whatsoever. I have lots of stuff like that and if it was worth cashing in on believe me I probably would have done it already. Sorry so snappy...Respectfully -Jeff
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