Jersey Shore, Pa. Fancy Cancel No.3

We found another of these covers cleaning out my family members attic. My uncle Bill Williams (Love that guy!) scanned it to show me! I know it's Family related because it's addressed to William Antes a prominent name and/or relative of our family tree. Also, Williamsport is just down river 16 miles so it didn't have far to travel did it? I've yet to research it as I was excited to show it here, if nothing else to document it's existence!

You're building a nice collection of Jersey Shore cancels. Looking good.

Jeff (cousin Jeff??)- I have same last name as uncle Bill . I know my father had relatives in the US but very little mention of who and where they went. Williamsport sounds like home!!

I would say you're looking at different dials for all of the scanned covers. The first two look to be the same at first glance but are not. Look carefully at the position of the letters "ER" in "JERSEY. They are spaced differently!

In fact, the second and third are of a smaller diameter circle and, if you look closely, in example #3, the letter "S" in "SHORE" is in the 12 o'clock position; in example #4, the letter "Y" in "JERSEY" takes the 12 o'clock position (not to mention other subtle spacing variances between the letters).

Assuming all of your scans are of the same size, the original cover (addressed to W. Antes, Esq.) is showing an even larger diameter circle than all of the others shown, so that too is a different dial.

All scans are identical in scale. wt1 you are amazing! Wow I have lots of work to do! I noticed that the spacing was a little different and I think, now that I look at it, the font may have even changed subtly? I'll have to fly speck them today...and tomorrow... Thank you for the quick overview wt1.

Beautiful, ILS. Now I want one.

Here is one two on ebay right now Zipper, but the prices is are a little high..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PA-JERSEY-S...em5afcd3a6a9

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1862-JERSEY...em2eb7077729

I agree those ebay covers are overpriced, but as to the first one (the most expensive!) it is only a BIN price, and who knows if the seller might come down if a serious offer were made.

In any event, I found that cover was addressed to A.W. Lee, Esq., of Glen Hope, Pennsylvania. I happened to find his biography, which I found a bit interesting, especially given the fact it was addressed to him in 1861, when he would have been only 21 years of age (although admittedly different sources, change his dates dates of birth and death a bit):




And this piece of a (Thomas Eakins ... remember he was the subject of a postage stamp back in the 1960s) portrait of him is also an interesting read, especially under the "description" section of the link:

http://www.reynoldahouse.org/collec...ject/a-w-lee

Thanks, ILS.

On the Nov 25th the Nov is inverted...Is that unique?

well, it is but only in the sense that someone accidentally put it in that way and I doubt it adds any or at least much of a premium.


Wt1 I love that Clearfield one but that price is gonna have to come way down first.

And if it was caught and corrected after only this one use, wouldn't that make this "one of a kind"?

A one of a kind is a potential bad thing. What that means is that there isn't another one that was ever sold and documented to compare prices. I think it's neat but not too unusual for the 1840's.