Help For Fancy Cancel

Thank you for the clarification.
Chip

interesting!!
in the fancy cancel is visible a little star

some information about the postal service in fort jefferson
(7 images)

thank Wt1 for information! very nice information!

note that my letter is sent to
Chas A. Townsend
Akron - Ohio

the same address in the pubblication image number 5.

the sender is always mr Brown!

tartamimmi,
I finally got some time to look at the cancellation more closely. Here is an image where I isolated the red channel of the image:



I still cannot figure out exactly what it is. It is possible that the cancel is not words. However, I do see a possibility that the lowercase letter "n", "m", or "r" is in the middle of it.

I have read the history of this postal location which you posted in this thread. I tried to find any correlation but cannot find any.

Maybe, the cancel is not from the Tortugas office and could be from somewhere else on the Gulf of Mexico or eastern Atlantic coast close to Fort Jefferson.

I wish you luck in finding the meaning of the cancellation. Please keep in mind that the cancellation may just be a random shape and does not represent letters of the alphabet.

I still think that it is composed of letters, but I cannot determine what it could possibly say.

Good luck!

THANK YOU
have you seen the star to the right ?

Charles A. Townsend was the son of prominent Ohio politician Charles Townsend. I am more familiar with the father, who was a fellow state commander of the Ohio Grand Army of the Republic to my great-great-grandfather, Johnathan T Romig. I have a couple pieces of correspondence tucked away somewhere.

I do see quite a bit of pre-printed items to Chas. A. Townsend in Akron, so perhaps he was also a politician or perhaps newspaperman?

Miriam, try to ask the Florida Postal History Society: http://www.fphsonline.com/. Maybe they have some additional information.

thank you Denis!

wt1 - excellent - making this a valuable cover IMHO (and yours I think)

sorry CanadaStamp, what is IMHO? I'm Italian I'm not know this acronym

In My Humble Opinion
Don

ok thank you! :-D