Let's See Your Pictorial Postmark Covers

Mine, as seen below, are of your everyday variety. Would be of interest to see some from the 1800's, more colorful ones, etc!!

Stamp Smarter database with about 10,000 of them
https://stampsmarter.org/features/F...ernView.html

Don

Don, I visited the Stampsmarter site and viewed the 10,000, not, pictures of Fancy Cancels. I especially enjoyed the ones from the earlier days!

I have visited the Stampsmarter web site so many times now that I finally made a donation!

Thank you Don for your continued input to my posts. John

Does the search, and the thread here include spray cancels?
I have one from Orlando Florida 2010
A young lass with a pony tail.
"NEVER STOP LOOKING FOR ?????"

rod, there's one there from Bend OR also from 2010. The inscription is Never Stop Looking For Missing Children.

The first generation of spray-ons was horrible, to say the least. So only decipherable ones were added to the database. The story I was told is that the cancelers were mostly never properly adjusted so that the typical print was overlong aside from often being hardly readable (city and date included) more often than not. So decent strikes are not common for a lot of cities.

Fabulous, thanks HB,
Agree with your criticism, same here in Australian Pmks
A poignant message, nonetheless.

rod222, yes this thread does/should include spray cancels.

And thanks for your and hy-brasil's informative posts!

John

Not too bad. It looks better in hand.
pat

Not to bad at all. I received one, also from San Diego, but it was so smudged I didn't want to post it. John

Don't know why,
but this being one of my favourites...

Pictormark : Arms of Berlin.

Pictormark : Help Refugees.

rod222, thanks for your contribution to this thread! Here are a few more:

A clear spray-on from 2014. I'm unsure if this is one from of the newer cancel devices or a properly calibrated older one.

Don Sellos