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Posted 11/17/2017   5:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Lioness2 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello
Between 1916-32, the Washington stamp, I thought the Washington design only goes up to 5 cents blue. Does anyone know what is the Scott Cat.# for this Cover?

I find this cover trying to express historical significance pertaining to President Abraham Lincoln. It first was cancelled on his birthday in Kentucky. On March 4th, was day Grant became 18th President, but he was selected Commander of Chief of Union Army by Lincoln in the month of March too. The middle cancellation is the day, President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre.
Has anyone seen this cover before with similar cancellations across expressing Abraham Lincoln or is this unique?
Any information would be appreciated. Thank you

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Posted 11/17/2017   8:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Just a guess, but Ralph may have mailed this cover (under other cover) to the three post offices.
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Posted 11/17/2017   8:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Lioness2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have no idea who the individual is at all. I purchased it from a paper collector who had a trove of mix materials. He didn't even know who the person was either. I was curious about the embossed 6 cent cover stamp. Does anyone know anything about that specific embossed stamp on cover?
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Posted 11/17/2017   8:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Lioness2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The Paper collector admitted to me he bought it from estate sale in Philadelphia area, he had a large trove of mixed material and this was included in his box collection. I collect historical Lincoln Memorabilia as well as stamps.
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Posted 11/17/2017   11:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chasa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
original envelope is U529
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Posted 11/18/2017   12:07 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Lioness2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you everyone so very much for your assistance! Now, I can place it correctly in my Lincoln Mem. file.
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Posted 11/18/2017   06:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Glenn Estus to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This was a fad during the 1930s: collecting people's names based on Post Office names. Many collectors would try to find post offices that had their personal names and send for their postmarks. Another set of post offices often seen is Franklin, Delano, Roosevelt. The post offices might be in Alabama, Minnesota, and Missouri.
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Posted 11/18/2017   07:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ThomasGalloway to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Minor point. If the original envelope was amber paper (which it could have been, the white paper of this issue being pretty consistently bone white), the Scott # would be U530.
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Posted 11/18/2017   08:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DonSellos to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Lioness:

I have not seen the cover before and can't add any info about its background, but the 1938 BLUE BOOK OF PHILATELY has a listing for Ralph A. Casner who then was living in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. He was 54 in 1938 and listed his occupation as "Automotive Supervision." He belonged to several cover-related clubs and specialized in U.S. & Possessions, and B.N.A. covers (air, naval, first days, historical and classics), and collected Michigan precancels. I have one other cover addressed to him, a 1934 airmail first flight from Hilo, Hawaii. My guess is that he was a typical 1930s cover collector.

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Posted 11/18/2017   5:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Lioness2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I am so grateful for the additional research provided. It will assist with information for future reviews.
Thank you again!
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