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1883 Cover With 1932 Stamps On

 
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Posted 01/19/2015   8:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Stewart to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi,
This cover has a watermark 82 impregnated in it, with an 1883 embossed stamp on the face, and also Washington stamps from 1932 on it, is this a re-production of the 1883 embossed stamp and I would like to know if the embossed stamp is also identified by the watermark in the paper of the cover?
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Stewart

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Posted 01/19/2015   10:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like you have a U277 stamped envelope (1884-86 series, which did include Watermark 82) and the 1932 1-cent stamps were merely added at the time of posting.

Seeing as the year is illegible in the postmark, the 4-cent first class rate was in effect from August 1, 1958 through January 6, 1963, so I suspect the date of use was somewhere within that period.

Since the U277 stamped envelope is not particularly valuable at $1 (2013 SCV), the best guess scenario is someone had the envelope laying around and decided to use it many years later, probably by a stamp collector.

This is further supported by the fact that the addressee of the cover, H.P. Boyce (a/k/a H. Prescott Boyce) was a noted stamp collector back in his day:

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Edited by wt1 - 01/19/2015 10:01 pm
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Posted 01/20/2015   8:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Stewart to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi, Wt1
Thanks for the response, I really wanted to confirm that the cover did belong to the 1884-6 series, I thought it may have been a possibility that a collector had the cover and posted it years later which you have suggested, I am not sure that the cover is a U277, but I stand to be corrected, thank you again for your response.
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Stewart
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Posted 01/20/2015   8:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jkelley01938 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yikes WT1. Where do you find this stuff? I'm a UMASS grad and I never would have found that obit.

Jack Kelley
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Posted 01/20/2015   8:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I just searched the name and this link came up. The obituary shown above was posted on page 74:

https://archive.org/stream/alumnus1.../n5/mode/2up
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