Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

That's really neat! Can you make out the black "killer" fancy cork by chance? I'm having a bit of trouble seeing what it is?

For convenience of not having to refer back to the previous page, here's the previously posted cover in question:



I can't make out the postmark on the stamp, either.

For what it's worth, I did find the name "Luly B. Shaw" (note variant spelling of first name) in the 1880 US Census documenting that she was 14 years of age at that time; based on fact that the cover is dated 1887, it would have made her 21 years of age at the time the cover was mailed:

I have never to make sense of that killer, I keep trying to see it as a ship..probably because of the shipping done from that "port" One of the regular caller at this port, the schooner Georgia R Higgins took the first cargo out of the new "port" up the coast, Bear Harbor exactly one week after this cover was mailed, and was wrecked in this port 25 days after the mailing of that cover. To give you some idea of how big this "port" was here's a couple of photos. Thats the post Office in the foreground with the men standing around it.





The Georgia R Higgins is probably one of the four ships tied up at the end of the pier.

A tidbit of history of the addressee of your cover, George Granger of Sodus, NY:

I've shown this cover before on this site, but today is it's anniversity, 157 year ago, Senator Marselis tried dending this with his frank which was not allowed, I'm guessing that his clerk paid the 3 cents.





Missed posting this cover a couple of days back, better late than not.

A couple of days late again.

Littleriverphil: It's always interesting when you can find a picture to go with a cover. In the case of the middle cover in your last scan, addressed to Adin D. Sargeant of South Franklin, Mass., here's his portrait:

Thank you wt1, you're amazing! :)

ILS, all three of those covers are great! It would be nice to have a set of the Famous Americans with those cachets.

Missed a couple, one a twin to a cover I posted the other day, but two years earlier, if we can trust the docketing. Is that a Boxed Paid used as a cancel?





This cover is 5 days late for this thread ( aahhh, I was pre occupied? :) )but does tie in with other I recently showed. The docketing ( or return address ) is spelled out Point Arenas while the CDS says Puntas Arenas. Looks like Mrs McDaniels was shopping for a new hat.