Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

September 30. This cover sent from Fortune Magazine was canceled twice. In New York on the 30th, 1949 and again in Toronto on October 4. I promise I won't show it again on Thursday.

Plus two more postmarked Sept 30, 1948.

This one from Auberndale Mass sporting a SC#967 (as someone has handily pointed out for me on the cover itself)...



...and the other from Philadelphia PA with a SC#940.

As to that last cover, in case anyone was wondering why an Auto Supply Company was writing to the Van Norman Company of Springfield, Mass., this was probably the reason:

October 1 1949, Havana Cuba to Washington DC, back-stamped indicating Oct 8 air mail arrival in Miami then again in DC later that day

Two covers both sent to the Travelers Insurance Co. on October 1.

1944 with an SC#925 Corregidor issue...



...and 1945 sporting the SC#923 steamship issue

The 1944 cancel from Wallingford Conn. has an inverted 1 in the date.

Now you got me curious not only about the inverted "1" in the date, but why that character has a top serif, when the "1" in the time line and the "1" in the year do not carry it!?

In case anyone was wondering why a Cuban Tobacco company would be communicating with the US Treasury Dept., Roberts Tobacco Company was an importer of American cigarettes back in the day, as shown in this ad:

You're right wt1! Never noticed that. Guess there weren't enough 1's to go around in Wallingford at that time. War austerity measures perhaps.

From Maine on October 1 and 2:

October 3 1874, Aplington IA to Chicago IL

Is this a duplex cancellation?

Some information on E. Y. Royce, the addressee of your postal card:

I apparently posted the obituary of E. Y. Royce a bit prematurely. A lot of interesting information happened in his later life as alluded to in that obituary, particularly about him erecting an "Opera House" in Sheldon, Iowa that was condemned before it was even built, suggesting that his lack of mental capacity led him to do it:

Here's the so-called Opera House:


And his son filling for Guardianship of E. Y. Royce because of his mental incapacity:


And this brief article in a 1910 trade magazine about the interior furnishings:

Wow, wt1! You amaze me with the amount of information you find! Thank you!

October 4th.

1893 Harpers Publishing, the Harpers Bazar people and as you can see, $4 per year back then.



1917 Illinois Trust with a 2¢ Schermack Perf.

I like that last scan. It's unusual to find a Scott 482 with a Schermack Type III perforation on cover.

That's why the SCV of a used stamp is only $0.60 as compared to $20 on cover, I suppose.