Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

Good morning, five for today.

Ukiah,



Briceland, Registered



Fort Bragg, an Ellen Clapsaddle card!





Melburne,



and Bulwinkle.

June 28

1943 - A.P.O. #25 to Milwaukee, WI




The letter made it home, but it was 1943. Did he? That is what I wondered.

1939 - Castle Bruce, Dominica to Grimsby, England




Roger Wells, in pursuit of smaller post offices on Dominica. Thank you, Roger.

1956 - Road Town, Tortola to Toronto, Canada


William Butler secures another mixed franking of Leeward Islands stamps via surface registered letter.

Good day, three today.

Point Arena,



Eureka & S. F. RPO, something about the gold star, the cute little Union Pacific sticker or the lack of any message makes me think PHILATELIC.



and Boonville.

re APO 25 to Milwaukee:

He survived.

The National Archives and Records Administration website look-up for Army enlistments has his serial number identified more fully as Max E Kwiatkowski of Milwaukee, WI born 1908, etc.
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/displa...0&txt_24983=

The Find A Grave website shows an apparent match for him living 1908-1979:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial...-kwiatkowski

An additional interesting note to this cover is the circled "7" after Milwaukee. This is the Zone number copied from Boston's 1920-era Zone system and implemented nationwide in May 1943 in about 125 U.S. large cities to help mail sorting during wartime when many mail clerks had been drafted. A June 1943 cover is fairly early to find it in use and why it is specifically worthy to point out here.
When Zip Codes were introduced in 1963, 3 leading digits were added along with an extra space-filling "0" to make a 5-digit number. Even today, Google maps shows the 2833 S Burrell St address with a Zip Code of 53207 a direct connection back to 1943.

Hey sir, John Becker! - thanks for satisfying my curiosity about the soldier. Also, the postal code note was an interesting read too. So, double thank you. Links appreciated.

June 29

1933 - Aboard the R.M.S. Lady Nelson to Toronto, Canada



Mailed with British Guiana postage stamps and postmarked in Boston, U.S.A.



1956 - Plymouth, Montserrat to Toronto, Canada



Another Butler cover.



1931 - Guadeloupe to Fort de France, Martinique



Caught the French mailboat travelling from Bordeaux to Colon, Panama.




1891 - Elmina, Gold Coast to Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.

Good morning, five for today and one for nine days ago.

Albion Jun 20. A typo in my list, found it this am under Jun 30.
A Wells Fargo paste-up.



Fort Bragg,



Ornbaun



These last three are Eureka & San Fran. RPOs, two 985-K-?s and a 985-X-1. I'll re-post the MPOS catalog illustration, and you can decide which is what.



Eureka Jun 29, 1924, a 985-K-1?



Eureka & San Fra. RPO Jun 29, 1930, a 985-X-1



and Eureka & San Fran. RPO, another K-1?


Here is possibly another 985-K-number. Unlike the rest of the 985-Ks, This CDS has a space between last letter of Eureka, the ampersand and the first letter of San, also the first and last letters of Eureka & San Fran. are centered thru the last logo (TR 1 in this case). 985-K-4 looks close, but the ampersand is centered between the R. and P. of R.P.O. and the possible 985-K-5 has the ampersand centered above the P. Opinions?

Quite possibly. A couple of observations ...
1. There are plenty of unlisted marks yet to be discovered. Especially among the 20th century marks.
2. The RPO catalog contains tracings made by different collectors with different abilities from cancels of differing quality, rather than scanned images. Thus I take the catalog with a grain of salt, rather than absolute gospel. Some tracers "filled-in" weak areas, had a hard time reading black ink on a dark green stamp, etc. As an example, note the perfectly circular rims on every tracing, which is not true in reality as handstamps were dropped and the rims often bent or chipped. The catalog is silent on the progressive wear/damage to the handstamps. Also the lack of accompanying killers can create confusion as the killers can also be a differentiating feature between two similar CDS devices.

I collect a very small subset of the RPO catalog. My methodology is to use the RPO catalog as a starting point, then to seek out copies of each marking from each year to document progressive wear, determine EKU/LKU data more thoroughly, etc. Using actual postmarks rather than the often-enhanced tracings has led to the discovery that several of the catalog listings should be split and several listings should be combined. Both catalog changes easily proven by wear analysis by having multiple examples, but much of this would be better fodder for a separate thread.