Scott 403

Hi Guys. I have just bought a few covers from a private seller in Austria. I will recieve said covers next week sometime. One of the covers has a scott 403 stamp and is tied by a worlds panama pacific exposition 1915 cancelation. There is another round cancelation with Sanfrancisco cal. Aug 2. 1915 beside it. I have been searching the internet now for a few hours but can't seem to find another one like it (except for a 1st day of issue cover which sells for a ridiculous ammount of money). So my question is are these covers fairly common or fairly scarce? Thank you in advance for any info you may have.

Decrynne, almost impossible to answer without seeing the cancel! Could you please post a scan as soon as you receive the cover?

Peter

Hi. I will. It has been sent to me as a pdf doc., which I can open but I have no idea how to convert that into a picture I can download here. Trying to find my camera at the moment to take a picture of it :)

Ok. I took a pic with my phone.. Not the best image but enough to see the cover.

To use your descriptive words, I would select "fairly common"

The stamp appears to be a 399, rather than a 403.
The stamp pays the typical 5 cent letter rate to Switzerland.
The machine cancel was one on many used to advertise the expo. There are several varieties, with any 1915 use being realtively common. So it is an advertising slogan for the expo, and not a postmark actually used at the expo.

Attractive, but not a zinger, in my opinion.

Thanks John, that is the type of info I was looking for :)

There are alot of those expo cancels in many differant types I like them but I have seen people who have whole albums of them both covers and cut corners, not rare by any means but is worth the keeper pile.

Thanks guys. I obviously thought it was a cancel from the exposition itself (wrong I see now from your comments)but I still think it may be a 403 as a picture of a 399 shows more perfs along the frame length.. but I will know for sure once it arrives. It was not advertised as anything, just one picture of many covers that will arrive.

This cancel was in use on mail from several cities for a long time during the years running up to the expostion and during the exposition as an advertising campaign. Since the exposition ran from February 20 until December 4 that would be quite a large amount of mail. It is a nice addition to the stamp but the main value is the stamp. Here is a link to a cover with the 2 cent counterpart stamp to your 5 cent one. It was used in 1913 from the city of Oakland, California and the auction is offering it for a buy it now price of $2.95 and it has not sold yet. http://www.ebay.com/itm/San-Francis...t_627wt_1362

Thanks Kimo :)