Bullseye And Socked On Nose Cancels

Actually I have dozens of those Indiana Sesquincentennial stamps with FDC bullseye.

I never quite figured out how or why they did it, but the best I can guess in that someone had an "in" with the post office that prepared these cancels, as per the examples below they were trying to get the right fix on the bullseye by cancelling a blank 3x5 card, then placing the stamp over the first imprint and cancelling it a second time.

I never heard of the post office allowing such a thing, but it apparently happened as evidenced by the attached examples, which explains why there are double images of "FDOI" and only one image of the city/state/zip/date bullseye (the other is behind the stamp)!

Found a good one today -- off by only a millimeter or so.
From Germany

Check out the Roo

Another SOTN FDOI:

Just found some of these ... a SOTN FDOI on the Souvenir Sheet:

Not every day you find a CDS that can fit entirely on a small definitive stamp.

here's one for bird lovers....

not a bad China SOTN

pretty close to center here

Hello, Here is a nice one from L.A.

unusual postmark, but SOTN

Some very nice SOTN stamps.

Oooh I like the Nailsworth CDS,
that's almost perfect, with a pun connection
"Nailed" in Oz means "spot on"

Not quite exactly "socked on the nose" perhaps, but still quite readable cancels from MA and PR on Special Delivery Stamps:



...and one more from VA: