I was going through a batch of Washington & Franklin's this morning and found a regular old #405 but with an unusual cancellation that I just cannot make out? Can anyone tell me anything more about or familiar with it please? Thank you lots! -Jeff
P.S. I heavily darkened/altered the image up to highlight the cancellation.
The wording in the cogged wheel is: EMPLOY THE / HANDICAPPED with ABILITY COUNTS reading across the center. It is a slogan machine cancel first used in the mid 1950s, so a very late use of this stamp.
Although there's no way to tell what city your slogan cancel was used in, the Washington DC Slogan cancel list suggests that it used there from 1964 to 1987 and looked like this:
Use reported as early as 1958. And on both International and Universal machines according to Moe Luff's "United States Postal Slogan Cancel Catalog" 1975 edition. So a very common slogan - but uncommon on your stamp!
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Posted 03/23/2015 09:39 am
