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Posted 01/01/2026   12:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Happy New Year!! Only three Jan 1 postmarks, Mckinleyville and Fort Bragg here

https://goscf.com/t/11887&whichpage=131#454612

and Northspur/Fort Bragg;
Northspur closed it's post office May 15, 1922, and had a name change sometime after that, as noted by the return address. Tricked myself, listed the postmark date under Fort Bragg, but the scan under Northspur, took more than an hour to find it.
Noyo River Tavern to Germany,

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/02/2026   11:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Good Morning, five postmarks for Jan 2, two (Whitesboro & Manchester) are here,

https://goscf.com/t/11887&whichpage=131#454809

Today's postmarks are
Rio Dell,



Fishrock, missing it's stamp,



and Albion.

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/03/2026   12:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A damp good morning, I have three covers for Jan 4th.

Eureka,



Eureka,



and Westport.

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/04/2026   10:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Two postcards for today,

Harris, looks like the sender forgot the year.



and Eureka.

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/05/2026   11:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Howdy! Four postmarks today, 2 previously posted here, ( Pssst, Randy, one is a Northwestern mill pc)

https://goscf.com/t/11887&whichpage=131#455287

Pepperwood, short paid to New Zealand.



and Fields Landing.

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/05/2026   6:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stallzer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Posted 01/06/2026   10:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Two previously posted here

https://goscf.com/t/11887&whichpage=132#455461

Only two for today.
Loleta,



and Albion.

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/07/2026   06:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rainrainbow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
January 7
Registered letter from Saint-Denis (Reunion) to New York City


SAINT-DENIS
11 20
7 -1
1950
REUNION





A purely philatelic undertaking by Nassau Street, but I am grateful to those who captured events like these. This cover contains some of the French postage stamps overprinted in 1949 to show CFA currency for use in Reunion. Reunion ceased using its own designs with the political change, but kept its currency. The island of Reunion is located in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar and Mauritius.
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Posted 01/07/2026   11:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Good morning. I have four postmarks for Jan 7th.

Here are the RPO listings for NWP 985 Ukiah & San Fran. There were only four recorded CDS for the line,



This 1897 Ukiah & San Francisco RPO is not listed!



Hermitage,



Point Arena,



Here are the listings from the RPO catalog for Eureka & Scotia, and Arcata & Elinor.
Eureka & Scotia, Ca., 29 miles, Eel River & Eureka RR (NWP) Jun 17,1895-*Sep 29,1911 16 years
985-M-1: Eureka & Scotia R.P.O., 27.5, black, 1898, R Ill
985-M-2: Eureka & Scotia R.P.O., 30, black, 1908, T.N., R Ill


Arcata & Arcata & Elinor. Ca., 42 miles, Northwestern Pacific R.R. (SP) *Sep 29,1911--Jun 24,1914*
985-F-1: Arcata & Elinor R P 0., 29.5, black, 1914, TN., R IV

Eureka & Scotia, still operating 2 years after the line was to be Arcata & Elinor.
This is the latest postmark I have for this line, The earliest Arcata & Elinor I have is Jun 22,1913.
Can you guess which of these RPO's is the scarcest?


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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
Edited by littleriverphil - 01/07/2026 11:55 am
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Posted 01/08/2026   12:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rainrainbow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
January 8

ST. PIERRE ET MIQUELON
*
8-1
44






This envelope received a faint CONTROLE POSTALE censorship marking on Iles St. Pierre et Miquelon and an equally faint PASSED U.S. CUSTOMS at C.J.M. Boston, Mass. Fortunately, the postmark on the five-franc 1942 Schooner issue (StampWorld.com #310) is crystal clear.

The address in Washington in 1944 was that of a religious order. Today, that same address belongs to the Whitestone Group, a corporation involved in private and government security.
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Posted 01/08/2026   10:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I found seven postmarks for Jan 8th, three here,

https://goscf.com/t/11887&whichpage=132#455728

False Cape, a pretty early short-lived Humboldt post office, opened Dec 12,1870 and closed Jan 7, 1879. I can't locate it on any map I have, but the name reminds me of low tide. Office moved to Capetown.



Ukiah,



Arcata,



and Capetown.

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/09/2026   12:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rainrainbow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
January 9 - a WWII cover.
POINTE A PITRE
9
JANV
41
GUADELOUPE

The postal customer paid nineteen francs to get their letter to Africa from the West Indies. Two copies of Guadeloupe (StampWorld.com) #122, two-franc stamps, a copy of #124 a five-franc stamp and a copy of #125, a ten-franc stamp. The design on each stamp is the port of Pointe-ŕ-Pitre, from where the letter originated. That stamp series began issuing in 1928.






CASABLANCA-POSTES
19
15H45
FEVR
41
MAROC


It took just over a month for the letter to arrive at its destination. There is a POSTAL CONTROLE handstamp on the front showing the letter was inspected in Guadeloupe. Unfortunately, there is no transit marking to confirm that the Via Azores instruction was followed.
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Posted 01/09/2026   10:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Four postmarks this morning, one here,

https://goscf.com/t/11887&whichpage=132#455865

Point Arena,



Westport,



and Northwestern,

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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Posted 01/10/2026   05:13 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rainrainbow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
January 10
DEDOUGOU
10
JANV
35
COTE D'IVOIRE




Postage stamps of Upper Volta (StampWorld.com #47 & 48) showing "local motives". These two stamps are the ten and fifteen-centime values from a set issued in 1928.

I do not fully understand the administrative arrangement of 1935, but as you can see, Dedougou was and is located in what was then Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso} and yet the postmark shows it as the Ivory Coast.


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Posted 01/11/2026   12:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Four postmarks for today, 1 here,

https://goscf.com/t/11887&whichpage=132#456218

Ferndale,



Caspar,



and Fortuna.

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I collect most of California's Redwood Empire , Humboldt & Mendocino counties, including the RPOs that ran through them. Any town or city I mention is located in one or the other.
My primary sources are
California Town Postmarks 1850 - 1935 compiled by John H. Williams & the Western Cover Society
Mobil Post Office Society RPO Catalog, MPOS U. S. Route and Station Agent Catalog, and the MPOS RPO Directory and AGT Directory
California Postmaster Compensation compiled by Alan H. Patera
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