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kcaramat
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I know what the postmarks APO and FPO stand for. Can someone tell me what the postmark CPO is for ?
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wert
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Dont know if this link helps Kcaramat..???

http://www.postmarks.org/resources/...glossary.php
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kcaramat
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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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Petert4522
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You can always give us the link to the item?

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stallzer
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Are you sure it's not GPO ?
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kcaramat
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Posted 12/12/2014   11:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kcaramat to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It could possibly be GPO
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disi123
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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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kcaramat
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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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wt1
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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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kcaramat
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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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APO could also be "Army Post Office" and FPO usually is "Field Post Office".

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