New 'Pointing Hand' Or 'return To Writer/Sender' Community Project

A new 'Pointing Hand' or 'Return To Writer/Sender' Community Project census database is now published on Stamp Smarter

http://www.stampsmarter.com/feature...andHome.html

It currently has about 200 'Pointing Hand' auxiliary markings; if you have any covers with these auxiliary markings that you would like to add to the census you can;

1. Become a Project contributor and add them yourself directly to the database

Or

2. Send your higher resolution images to me via email

Or

3. Post your images in this thread

Seeking front and back images of the entire cover, prefer 300 dpi or better but not a hard requirement.
Don

I have a feeling a lot members are going to be pointing the finger at Don.

This is pretty awesome!

Here's a couple of covers.

Thank you Battlestamps, they have been added.

I also added this cover, not a 'Return To Writer' auxiliary marking but I simply could not resist the cool Goodyear glove!
Don

Hi 51Studebaker, would it be possible to see scans of the reverse for your covers?

Especially the last one with a glove?

Thanks in Advance

Stampmaster

?? The database contains high resolution images for the Pointing Hand, the cover front, and the cover back.

Find the cover you want to see (i.e. Search for 'Goodyear' using Key Word Search and/or use View by Postmark Year and select '1882') and then click on the 'Details' link to see all details including the cover images. (Click on the cover thumbnail to see high resolution image.)
Don

Hi Don,

Great start on an interesting project. Does anyone know the origin of this symbol on mail? Are you interested in early manuscript examples on cover?

Best regards, Russ Ryle

I didn't scan the back when I initially posted this back in 2015. I'm not sure where this cover is now other than in a box somewhere.

Thank you Meadowview, it has been added
Don

When I was researching "Pointing Fingers" on Australian Mail some 6 years ago,
I came across a link to a "Matthew E Liebson" treatment of US "pointing hands"
I kept a copy, In it he describes a pointing hand on a US stampless cover,
dashed if I could see it though.

This link has since disappeared.

From my research

Just curious..why do I get Chinese characters for the "P" in pointing hands?

Hi Rod,
Strange, it appears to have something to do with the ' symbol in front of the 'P or 'R. In the past I have tried to get the forum editor to generate non-English characters without success. I am clueless...perhaps the Ethernet bytes circle around the drain in the opposite direction down under?
Don

Well Don, our geographic location IS Asia.
Water goes clockwise down the plug.

Here's a few covers with the pointing hand from my collection.

Matthew is a member of this forum.

And then of course there are those where a pointing hand would be useless