Partial Cover Cancel

Would anyone know what kind of cancel appears on this partial cover with a New Haven CT postmark? Thanks.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1860s-Parti...AOSw8aNXG69L

Hard to tell since it is incomplete and poorly struck. It might be one of these geometric cancels. Some people classify them as fancy cancels but I hesitate to do so since they are not like the famous ones that portray animals and people and the like.

This is listed in Skinner/Eno as GE-M1. Although a weak strike, it is virtually complete, and the New Haven CDS is very nice. It is, however, overpriced in my opinion; "reduced" as it is - a $10 item at best.

With apologies to Kimo - this IS a fancy cancellation. Bullseyes, ellipses and grids are certainly worth placement in a 19th century cancellation collection but those are workhorse cancels, used virtually everywhere from 1st to 6th class Post Offices - not truly fancy. Think of them as the spray-ons or wavy bars of their day.

Geometrics are hand-made, often unique to a single PO and so definitely fancy.

Thank you both for the information and insight. I thought that the price was a bit much for only half a cover, but I was still intrigued by the cancel and was curious what it was all about.

Hi Kurt. No worries - I know that many people consider these to be fancy cancels and the reasons why which you have done a good job explaining, and this is why is why I worded my comment the way I did. I was simply stating my personal opinion of how I see them as they are more mechanical in the way they were made as opposed the freehand artistic carvings of the ones of animals and people and other objects.