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Posted 12/12/2014 07:58 am

I know what the postmarks APO and FPO stand for. Can someone tell me what the postmark CPO is for ?

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Posted 12/12/2014 08:06 am

Dont know if this link helps Kcaramat..???

http://www.postmarks.org/resources/...glossary.php

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Posted 12/12/2014 08:15 am

Thank You. I probably should have mentioned the stamp is from the early 1900s. The C.P.O. is at the bottom of a circle cancel. It's in an ebay lot so I can't provide a scan. It might even be C.F.O.

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Posted 12/12/2014 11:04 am

You can always give us the link to the item?

Peter

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Posted 12/12/2014 11:05 am

Are you sure it's not GPO ?

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Posted 12/12/2014 11:09 am

It could possibly be GPO

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Posted 12/12/2014 12:09 pm

Per Wikipedia...

A community post office (or CPO), a contract postal unit providing services in a small community in which other types of post office facilities have been discontinued.

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Posted 12/12/2014 1:22 pm

Yes I read that too, but I also read that this wasn't implemented until the 1970s. The stamp in question is a Washington Franklin from the 1910s.

Guess I'm going to have to buy the lot to get a better look at it.

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Edited by kcaramat - 12/12/2014 1:24 pm

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Posted 12/12/2014 3:33 pm

CPO could refer to "Central Post Office" typically in a larger city. Do we know what city the postmark is from?

Could it read something like this?

There are also some early GPO "General Post Office" postmarks that look as if they read CPO because of the typeface used in the first letter.

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Posted 12/12/2014 5:08 pm

Now you're talking ! That's exactly what it looks like. Not enough of the postmark is visible on the stamp to tell the city.

Thank you very much. I've been googling all day and had not come up with it.

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Posted 12/13/2014 1:00 pm

APO could also be "Army Post Office" and FPO usually is "Field Post Office".

Chimo

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