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As it was the very first 3C Agriculture stamp I aquired, the center stamp in the top scan below has always interested me. Was it a favor cancel from Washington, DC or a manuscript year date cancel from Hayseed, USA? Probabaly a question that will never be answered, but it did expand my interest to pen cancels. I found the rest of them on ebay. Can anyone read them all?   |
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Yes, but where were they canceled? Do you think that some tiny post office canceled them with a pen or were they favor canceled in Washington, DC? |
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Littleriverphil, I believe they are indeed cancels as Kevin504 said in his answer. The whole idea was to make them unusable. Years ago, at my fathers' electronics store in the Netherlands I had to do the same thing if someone came in and paid a large sum of money. It was the means by which revenue was collected.
On the Dutch tax stamps was actually a place for the date and year!
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"favor cancel"....just what the term implies.
Someone did you a "favor" and cancelled these stamps.
EX....Like James Farley signing some Nat Parks imperfs for
a collector at the time. |
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The Official stamps were not avaible to the general public, except at the main post office in washington, DC, where you could buy them at face value, but the clerk had to cancel them. At the time they were current ( 1973 to 1884 ) they were difficult to come by used, except in Washington,DC. |
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The Official stamps were not avaible to the general public, except at the main post office in washington, DC, where you could buy them at face value, but the clerk had to cancel them. At the time they were current ( 1973 to 1884 ) they were difficult to come by used, except in Washington,DC.
Thanks for the explanation. It appears we were missing the point due to a difference in terminology. I think most of us would recognize the term CTO (cancelled to order). I did not realize these were available to the public like this. Good info! Brian |
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Sorry, used to older terms, most of everything written about Official Stamps was written quite a while back and use the older terms, such as "favor cancel ", I'd forgotten the newer termology. |
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