Show Your 1851-61 Era Cancellations And Postal Markings

TX - awesome 1c strip of 3 on the Nesbit cover a few posts ago

I'm glad you like it.

I often make mental notes of pieces I particularly like, when I see them. I first noticed that cover around 1990, maybe earlier, in a brochure of Marc Haas material - I believe from Richard Frajola. I didn't buy it then. It showed up at auction last year and I was happy to grab it.

For today - some fancy cancels.
Both are believed to be unique/only known - I've never seen another, but who knows.
Both have PFCs and notable provenance.

Cloverport, KY - fancy 3 leaf clover cancel. Cute, given the name of the town.
The stamp is a 3c Ty II (25A) with inner lines, so, likely an 1857 usage.
This full cover is illustrated in Simpson-Alexander on p. 132 and in Chronicle no. 86, p. 83, where it is described as unique.



Here is a link to the Cloverport Chronicle article -
https://chronicle.uspcs.org/PDF/Chr...86/18652.pdf

Ex Tom Alexander, Wagshal

Next up is one I like a lot - the Jenkins Bridge cross on a pedestal.

3c Ty III (26), showing centerline, on lady's cover to Margaret Academy in Pungoteague Va.



This one is ex Wade Saadi (RIP), among others.

Jeesh

This is either just a little interesting because of the double circle Bernardston Mass. cancel (Simpson's p.53 #121 Rarity 3) or super interesting based on what it says inside the circle. . .it sure looks like "WAY / 17" to me, but "MAY / 17" makes more sense. I've never heard of a town cancellation that includes "WAY." Any opinions?

I plated the stamp to 23L3.

I see what you are seeing, but it has to be an optical illusion. The bottom part of the M isn't printed either.
I don't think its really a W slug put in by error either, or an upside down M, but, just an illusion.

Really gotta be "May".

I've never seen any such Way cancel, and I'm sure this isn't one.
Small chance that its a PM error with the device, but definitely not a real "way" cancel.

It's clearly MAY.

Thanks - I figured, but wanted to share in the .1% chance it was WAY.

43L1L

Ceresco Wis. also known as the Wisconsin Phalanx ~ DPO as of 1855

Estab. 1844 by Warren Chase and followers of the communitarian socialist ideas of Charles Fouier. The commune was dissolved in 1850. The lands owned by the commune were platted and a traditional community was formed.

Ceresco, Wis. mail service commenced in 1844 which also served nearby Ripon, Wis. In 1853 the villages of Ceresco and Ripon were united by the Wisconsin legislature with the combined town being called Ripon and the post office still using Ceresco until 1855 when the Post Office authorities changed the name of the post office to Ripon.

A nice, clear Dartmouth Mass. cancel. No letter, but someone dated the back 1860






The addressee is the same as a stampless 1849 cover I posted here

https://goscf.com/t/91159&whichpage=1#848921

When it comes to really cool Postal Markings of this era, this is up there, so I figured I'd share.

Ft Kearny, O.R., black eagle, stars and leaves.
The only recorded example of this in Black; there are 3 known in Blue.

OR was used briefly at Ft Kearny and Ft Laramie to indicate "Oregon Route".
This, for the old Oregon Trail route.

Does anyone else have a postal marking that does not denote a "State" or "Territory" as the location? Its highly unusual.
edit: other than standard Route Agent markings like for Railroads, etc

I believe this is an example of the cancelling device used on your cover

My goodness that is neat.
Any background info on it?

I've had it about 14 or 15 years. I bought it for around $5.00 from a roadside vendor at a local festival in the area. I recognized it as soon as I found it in a small box of stuff, having seen it on a cover in an advertisement in a stamp auction catalogue. I thought it would be nice piece of postal history to have.