Got Any 19th Century Fancy Cancels On US Stamps Or Covers?

Wonderful Cancels guys

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Dianne!



This cover is roughly opened at left but has a very bold strike of a Hartford Conn. leaf fancy cancel.

Thanks for starting this thread off Tom and with the amount of fancy cancellations we've seen I don't think its scratched the surfaceregards Harry

Rorschach inkblot test



Here is a mystery fancy cancel cover without an accompanying town postmark.



What does it look like to you?

I think it was King George II

anyone see a dog?

Ahhh, fi fi the french poodle.

I found this fancy cancel on cover during yesterday's trip to the Spellman Museum:



May 5, 1862 Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.

Rorschach is the name of one of the Ink blot hooded face character in the New Movie comicbook adaptation of the Watchmen , never knew the origin of his name until I just looked it up on wiki, we sure do learn alot from stamps and stamp discussions don't we ? .

Here is another NY fancy cancel on Scott #65.

1882 purple fancy Skull & Crossbones with town duplex of Coleville, McKean Co., Pa.

I have come across a couple skull and crossbones cancels. But that is the first one inked in purple that I have seen.
Very nice example t360.

Thank you, 1775Mac.



This cover came from the Stamp and Postcard Show held in Quechee, Vt.



A bold New York Foreign Mail fancy cancel (type GE-EN6) ties a Scott 159 6c dull pink
Lincoln banknote to a cover addressed to "Orebich." In the upper left corner is written
"Austria." Orebich is a port town in present-day Croatia.



Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1874.



The receiving backstamp reads Orbich 11-11-74, which positively dates the cover to 1874.

The stamp is a bit ratty and I have no idea where or when I got this stamp. What do you all think; is it a boot or something else?



marty

On this 1899 cover, a fancy negative "W" cancel from Wilmington, Massachusetts
ties a 2c Trans-Mississippi commemorative.



I used to work for a semiconductor equipment company in Wilmington, but not
quite that long ago.