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All Forums Category: US Stamps and Covers Discussions Forum: US Classic Stamps - As Issued and Used

Artistic Postal Clerk "Points" The Way

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Posted 01/16/2016 9:33 pm

Cover originally sent from Westfield, Mass. to Providence, R.I.
The pencil marking at lower left, tells us the recipient, left town.

I think it;s amusing the clerk could make such a nice drawing but can't write Returned legibly.

Would this have been a Westfield 'W' cancel?

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Edited by stampcrow - 01/16/2016 9:41 pm

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Posted 01/16/2016 9:46 pm

"the pointing finger"...most POs had a rubber stamp of
this type. Maybe it was lost/broken.
Very nice item....
YES...looks to be Westfield, MA "W"

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Posted 01/17/2016 02:18 am

Perhaps someone outside the PO system drew the pointing finger/notation? Nice cover none the less.

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Posted 01/17/2016 09:37 am

When someone draws the image that would have been left by a rubber stamp, is that:

- Life Imitating Art, or

- Art Imitating Life.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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Posted 01/17/2016 2:00 pm

or...which came first, the art or the stamp?

I wonder, did someone at the PO know the recipient "Left Town"?

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Posted 01/17/2016 3:11 pm

Perhaps Mr. Lester had no further use of J. W. Colton's Nervine Strengthening Bitters and wrote "left town" himself?

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Edited by Jenny2U - 01/17/2016 3:13 pm

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Posted 01/17/2016 3:23 pm

That's quite the Hogarthian contrast, Jenny. Excellent.

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