Four Cents Admiral Single Usage

Seldom does one get a cover with the single usage of this tamp. It was usually used to make up postal rates.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Would that still have been the proper rate for a letter weighing 1-2 ounces as late as 1928?

Wow that's nice!

Cjd; I am pretty sure at that time letter rates to the US were 2-cents per ounce. So must have been in that 1-2 ounce range.

Letters sent to the US at that time was 2 cents per ounce.

Obviously, this must have been over the rate, so, it was double. Usually, there would have been 2 of the 2 cents Admiral stamps, or other 2 cent stamps available at the time.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I like it. Nice find.

The article on the Admiral issue by Randall W. Van Someren on the BNAPS web site includes a chart that summarizes the postal rates during the Admiral period. See:
http://www.bnaps.org/ore/VanSomeren...ps-Rates.htm

The 4c stamp would be a natural for at least two rates:
1) The UPU postcard rate from 1 Oct. 1925 to the end of the Admiral era. An example of this rate is shown at the bottom of the chart. It is a postcard mailed from Quebec to Russia on 21 July 1927.
2) The British Empire first class rate from 1 Oct. 1921 to 30 June 1926. The most common destination is Great Britain, but shown below is a cover to Malta postmarked 26 Jan. 1926.

Bujutsu, the cover you show corresponds to neither of the above rates. It was mailed to the U.S. on 4 Jan. 1928. From the rates chart, this would correspond to the U.S. and Mexico first class rate for a letter weighing from 1 to 2 oz. The rate came into effect on 1 July 1926. I suspect that examples of this rate are scarcer than the two rates mentioned above.

OK ADMCOL, so, what I have is a first class rate cover to the States.

Either way, I am happy because single usage to make up the complete postage are hard to get.

BTW - that cover you have scanned is really nice too.

Also, I like the type III-B "HELP THE MUSKOKA HOSPITAL" slogan cancellation. Right in my area too

Chimo

Bujutsu