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

Found this one, anyone recognize the canel or know the Scott # of the stamp?

Hi Riggsy, welcome to the forum. That looks like a RB15 proprietary stamp. The cancel must be the initials of the company that used it.
Very nice.

My latest acquisition, from Sacramento Cali I believe.

Here's a nice scott 156 with a "US" cancel in blue.

Matt

Here's my fanciest cancel, foreign mail cancel on an 1873 #159 Lincoln

Can anyone shed light on the cancel posted by Thomiseksj on page 13 of this thread?

Perfect bulls eye.



Great pre-cancel

How about the tall-ships cancels. Their use take us back in time, through maritime history, to celebrate the Victorian era of the majestic wooden structures, that once mastered and ruled the seas.

This modern cover (front and back below) contains many cancels from participating countries and their vessels who have invested their time and energy to keep the memory and technology of a period that relied on the masts, sails, and talents of seafaring sailors to navigate the seas by wind, stars, and sheer determination.

The Canada Tall Ships stamp(s) (Scott™ #1864), depicted on this first-day cover use (below), was issued on the 19th day of July, 2000, in the last year of the end of the second millennium.

The following list accounts for those who gathered together at the end of the third leg [Boston to Halifax] of what was billed as the Tall Ships race of the Century, which originated from Europe.

The brief (festival) stay-over in Halifax of the visiting crew from these ships started with the release, by Canada Post, of it's Tall Ships definitive stamp(s), actually two, paired end to end, with one slightly different then the other.

During that time, beginning on the stamps day-of-issue, many of the participating ships "official" cancels were acquired for the privately made cover, while they were berthed around the port city gathering provisions before commencing the final leg of the race back to Europe. Reportedly, only one hand-written cancel was provided by an on duty officer at the time, from the "U.S. BRIG NIAGRA".

COUNTRY and TALL SHIP CANCELS
(see if you can spot them)
U.K. - EYE of the WIND
Netherlands - EUROPA
U.S.A. - NIAGARA
United Kingdom - ARETHUSA (sm)
Netherlands - EENDRACHT
Canada - BLUENOSE II
U.S.A. - EAGLE
Russia - KRUZENSTERN
Russia - MIR
Italy - AMERIGO VESPUCCI
Poland - POGORIA
Japan - KAIWO MARU
Canada - CONCORDIA
Poland - DAR MLODZIEZY
Columbia - GLORIA
Chile - ESMERELDA
U.S.A. - BRILLIANT
U.S.A. - PICTO N CASTLE
U.K. - ARETHUSA (lg)
U.K. - OCEAN SPIRIT OF MORAY
Italy - STELLA POLARE
Belgium - ZENOBLE GRAMME (lg)
U.K. - SARIE MARAIS (Plymouth)
Czech Republic - HEBE III
Indonesia - ARUNG SAMUDERA
U.S.A. - SHERMAN ZWICKER
Belgium - ZENOBLE GRAMME (sm)
U.S.A. - (HMS) ROSE
Ireland - ASGARD II
Germany - ROALD AMUNDSEN
U.K. - LORD NELSON

Those are nice but they are most certainly NOT FROM THE 19TH CENTURY!

Thanks for your note. Please re- read my posting, which gives a clear explanation as to the origin of the cancels depicted on the "modern" cover celebrating the wooden ships of that era.

Respectfully
SaveBigBlue

but it's not a 19th century fancy cancel. More along the lines of an axillary marking from the 21st century.

Hi All - I just posted this under 'fancy cancels'. I hoping someone here (on this post) can also shed some light on this for me. Thanks!

Another look at
https://goscf.com/t/725&whichpage=11#134979

There is a problem here you may wish to address before the time ever comes to let this cover go.

In its assessment of an item, the PF takes into consideration what the person submitting the item wishes to know. The cert states that the item was cancelled with a single cancel "augmented with a pen drawing of a beard." They do not comment on whether the ink drawing is part of the original cancel, but merely that the item is genuinely used. Which begs the question of whether the ink work could have been done later than the cancel, or was part of it. I would suggest resubmitting the cover and directly asking whether the ink beard is part of the original cancel. If they give an affirmative on that, then there is no doubt you have something really special.

Not sure if these qualify as Fancy cancels. My only attached pair with Grills.

When are fancy cancels not fancy cancels? When they are anachronisms that mimic 19th century postmarks.