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Posted 09/09/2015   03:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add kcaramat to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Curious about this stamp. The only town I can find in Indiana that ends with the letters AY is Speedway, IN. It was founded in 1912 so that works for this issue.

Is this an early precancel ?? or something else ? Any value ?

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Posted 09/09/2015   06:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jim6092252 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
seems awfull long like it would never fit
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Posted 09/09/2015   08:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add oldguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't think this is a Pre-Cancel for several reasons.
1. Too large to fit on a single stamp
2. There appears to be a 3rd line of numbers & text below the lower bar
3. Two letter state abbreviations were not common on US Postage until about 1963 when the Post Office started using 2 letter abbreviation in conjunction with the introduction of the Zip Code.
4. There appears to be a : after the In
5. "In" probably is not a state abbreviation, but something else like a slogan with the " and 3rd line of numbers & text finishing the cancellation text, i.e. ...ay In: ...863IO...
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Edited by oldguy - 09/09/2015 08:13 am
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Posted 09/09/2015   09:20 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kcaramat to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
OK, now I think we might be heading in the right direction. I took a quick scan through slogan cancels of that period and didn't see anything to match. I'll check out of time period slogans later.

This could be some type of auxillary marking placed that was placed on the envelope. Perhaps the AY is the tail end of the word delay as in Delay In :

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Posted 09/09/2015   1:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It might be one of the US Navy 3-bar cancels with a location or message between the bars, although those are usually upper-case letters.
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