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I thought that an interesting thread may be the normal, everyday stamps that require a second look. In this case, at first pull from the bin box, I distinctly saw an inverted 4 in the bottom left corner. Of course, it is just the cancellation playing tricks with my eyes, but it did cause me to "look twice".  Any more interesting examples out there?  |
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 I've posted this before, but it's been a few years. Looks like Adolph got putsched in the face in a beer hall fight. Someone with a nice left hook... |
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Here's another. The left stamp is a mint Hemingway, while the right is lightly cancelled. The height of the right stamp is noticeably shorter and really threw me for a few minutes.  I then "looked twice" and noticed that the bottom of the right stamp was actually folded up, creating quite the illusion.  A little too much beer with my brats today ... |
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Cjd, It's a shame that cancel's not a little darker, cause that's a nice one. It's a Berlin cancel from 1941. The text reads "Märchentheater / Prinzessin / Huschewind / Küstriner / Platz". It's an advertisement for a performance of "Prinzessin Huschwind" at the Märchentheater in Küstriner Platz, Berlin.  Here's an example of the complete cancel.  |
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On that Andrew Fisher stamp- what it that little semi-circle to the right of the mustache?  |
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I don't know. Lightly blew on it to see if lint, and didn't move, so part of the design. Definitely the same color as the rest of the design. I don't have a comparison copy, so didn't notice anything special about it. |
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I found a second copy. Same thing on that one. Guess he didn't know how to trim the mustache ... |
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| Edited by Partime - 05/28/2013 09:56 am |
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PMGS, thanks for the cancel listing. I wasn't really sure what was going on there... |
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Here's one that I recently found. Appears that "Liberty" is in desperate need of a tissue...  |
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"burning bell" Could this be an EFO? Most of the detail on the wood block above the bell is missing. In addition to the light color. -IBFS |
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Looks like Adolph got putsched in the face in a beer hall fight. Someone with a nice left hook... He had it coming. -IBFS |
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Here's a recent finding in my kiloware. I can't quite see the year in the cancel ... 1900, probably, but quite skewed.  |
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Partime, that's how the cancels were in those days - only 2 digits. They only switched to 4 digits sometime early in the 20th century. So yes, it is 1900. Incidentally that's a nice CDS cancellation. I actually live in this town - St. Catharines, Ontario - about 10 minutes from Niagara Falls.  |
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| Edited by JR1960 - 11/25/2013 8:51 pm |
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Posted 05/27/2013 10:49 am
