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Scott 65 3c Washington Non Contemporary Cancel

 
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Posted 01/17/2015   04:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add qwerty1976 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
What is your opinion, from this postmark? I think is not contemporary cancel..

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Posted 01/17/2015   1:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wbrob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Resembles a Doane cancel (ca 1900-10)
but may be a reproduction of one.
Perhaps, if a genuine cancel, the stamp was used on mail by a collector or someone who ran across an unused stamp. The letter rate of course in the early 1900s was 2c, not 3c.
Hard to think of a definitive answer beyond this.
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Posted 01/18/2015   02:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Not a doane cancel but a machine cancel from early 1900's.
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Posted 01/18/2015   08:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
ILoveStamps is on the right track. It is a machine cancel, but I suspect the cancel is actually from the 1880s, one of the early "experimental" cancels from either American Postal or International. These can date as early as 1884.

Which when you think about it, is only 23 years from the original date of issue, so it is not too astounding, but it would be quite interesting to see one used on cover with an early machine cancel.
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Edited by smauggie - 01/18/2015 09:01 am
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