Another Seapost Cover

Hi All

I got this at a stamp show today.

It is a cover from the maiden voyage of the "Grace Line" ship "Santa Rosa".

Chimo

Bujutsu

Nice clean cover.

Interesting details on the ship on Wikipedia...

She did the New York to Seattle run, as a 20-day trip (including a few days of layovers), and later spent time in the Caribbean.

She had a retractable roof for the dining area so that guests could dine under the stars, and employed waitresses (women) instead of stewards (men).

Also, an unintentionally humorous quote:


I suspect the writer had spent too much time at sea.

You be the judge:



or

Here's the US version of the Maiden Voyage Cover, postmarked 90 minutes later (?!) I suppose it was possible, but that's a very short time frame! :

I too, have one postmarked the same as the cover of wt1.

Thanks all for your input here.

I guess the people posting their covers/ cards at 4:30 PM must have been standing beside each other lol. BTW - they must have run out of aqua-blue ink by the time 4:30 came around and changed to rose red <G>.

I thought the cover was a bargain at $4.00 It will be a nice addition to my collection. Thanks cjd for the image too. It always better to have an image so you know the type of ship the marking was represented by.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I like ships but surely "Rita was Neater".

I like all of them. Interesting oddity about the blue vs red ink...probably some reason for that--either as Bujutsu hypothesized or I have an alternative hypothesis:

The blue one done earlier has a companion cancel from Victoria BC

The red ones done later both have a Seattle cancel

Might the cancels be done dockside after the letters were taken off ship, and some handler of the shipping agency placed the cachet BEFORE it was then delivered to the post office?

What I particularly like about them is the cachets are so dang precise and clear.

$5 is a steal, IMHO--but too bad that they don't have a Newfie stamp, because for me-they have no value!