Interesting Postage Due Cover Walla Walla Washington

If you're going to send something to the Postmaster you might as well save 6c. I wonder who paid?

I like the bisect 3¢ to send this for 1 1/2¢ and that not being enough. And then I like the 1/2¢ 'due' stamp used by the post office.

I sold a postage due bisect cover on ebay last week.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1925-Bisect...1535930?rd=1

I only knew Walla Walla as the jail in which Little Willie John died!

KRelyea you got a good price for that cover. Philatelic covers used to be scoffed at but now are becoming quite collectable

@KRelyea: That is a cool bisect. I wish I had seen it and had a chance to bid. I am really getting into covers lately and imagining what went through the senders mind to put something together like that - whatever 'that' may be.

I don't know if other people differentiate between amateur and professionally inspired philatelic covers but I do. I like the covers (mostly from the 1930s) where stamp collectors attempted to create unique covers. I've seen bisects but also obvious fake stamps that were used to make a curiosity rather than to defraud. I especially like the ones where the vignette from one stamp is placed on another. I've also seen covers sent to exotic places addressed with a fictitious name so that they will be returned to sender after a long and hopefully well marked trip.

nice bisect cover