Need Help For This 2 Cents Stamp. I Am A Novice

I don't no about this.

Appears to be a sheet stamp privately converted to a coil stamp and privately perforated for use in a stamp affixing machine. Identifying the stamp so modified is stretching my expertise.

Scott# 534 with Schermack Type III private perforation. CV 2.25 in my 2010 Scotts, but worth less due to miscut centering.

Very responsive and very accurate. A very big thank you from the french community.

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Don

Is that a US Army recruiting slogan cancel? Seems to have "learn" or "earn" and "Army" in the slogan.

Robert

I also think that the left letter is an E

This slogan was used in about 10 very large cities in 1920 and very early 1921. Here is the complete slogan from a Universal Stamping Machine Co's machine:



The International Postal Supply Co's version of the slogan had a different arrangement of the wording:



The cancel on the original poster's copy is from Chicago, as demonstrated by the intentional cut in the vertical bar between the first and second horizontal killer bars, Chicago had 10 machines running this slogan, so various gaps provided a way to quickly identify from canceled mail which machine needed maintenance to update a date, time, add ink, make a feeding adjustment, etc. Other cities running this slogan used different numbers in the circular postmark dials to differentiate the machines, like the Seattle example above.

Not sure I agree with you on the value, Chasa... given is has capture
of 3 other stamps, I'd personally value it 2x to 3x Scott... an EFO
collector might even pay more. I'm not even an EFO collector, and I'd
pay $5.00 on the spot for it...

Thanks to all for this good work.
Olivier

Who is the gentleman in the Bowler Hat?



GSM 1928

It could be Quaker Potts, according to the legend. Supposedly, somebody witnessed Washington in prayer at Valley Forge. I'm sure more information about the legend can be found with an internet search.

Robert

Interesting,
thanks Robert.

General Washington arrived at Valley Forge on December 19, 1777 with his troops. Other generals had found housing in various farms around the encampment area, and Washington found his own in the home of Isaac Potts, which he rented from its current tenant, Mrs. Deborah Hewes for a hundred pounds in Pennsylvania currency. Mrs. Hewes, whose first husband had been one of Isaac's brothers, moved in with the Dewees family.