Some Interesting Revenue Cancels

As promised here are some scans from the recent small lot I won. I would imagine most of these are common, particularly the NY Central Railroad cancels. I've seen the HR Stevens cancels before but I don't know who they are or what they did though. The blue NY Gold Exchange cancel is interesting! The R54a hasn't a neat cancel and unfortunately has a crease. And the pair of R26c's has "hanging chads". What's with that?

I think the Rouse's Point cancel is for the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad.

oops, I almost forgot this one. I don't generally collect entires, but this one has a beautifully embossed cancel of H. M. Schmuck

Greatly appreciated southpaw! Thank you for the time it must have taken to present them here!

A very nice and interesting array of cancels. Interesting also to see some of them on document.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Wow - love the embossed cancel!

Hi Southpaw, and thank you for that great exhibition!
I just wanted to answer your note about the "hanging chads". I suppose you are talking about the "blind perforations"?
That is where the perforator was either misadjusted or very dirty; the pins did not go all the way through the paper.
Blind perforations are fairly common on stamps - even on modern ones!

Peter

Very nice aesthetic pieces, espeically the R1c pair and the embossing.

Some interesting history on H(enry) M. Schmuck can be found here:

http://www.yorkblog.com/cannonball/...ame-in-1863/

You are amazing wt1! How do you find this stuff? Thanks!