Show Your US 1851-57 Imperforate Stamps

Nice position piece, Moyock13! I love the ones with a combination of uncommon recuts.

Thanks Classic Coins, I'm with you. I enjoy the uncommon recuts! I have a pile of typical 3c stamps without any noticeable recuts or anything else notable. Makes it really difficult to plate.

This thread has been idle for too many days lol.
I don't recall if I've posted this cover here but was hoping others would share their unusual Town Marks.

Thanks for helping to keep the thread going, Stephen. Sharing unusual town marks is a great idea!

Here's a #10A from sheet position 47L1e on a ratty cover with an ugly hand stamp from the town of Edinburgh, Indiana. The enclosure is a bill for wheat:

My apologies to anybody that has seen this before.

Hi Winston - do you know what the EKU on the 4-bar is?

I really don't know, Tex.

Nice pair, Winston. Looks like short transfers at top of both?

Gary, yours is a really nice stamp.

tx I haven't seen a lot of the four bar NY cancels, I have two off cover, one is Oct the other is Nov.

The one shown in Hubert Skinner's article for the USPCS, - Volume: 59 Number: 2 Year: 2007 Chronicle: 214 -, shows Sep 20.

But I see the tracing in Simpson's catalog is Aug 23rd.

Empirically from memory, I don't think I've seen a 4-bar from July.
I may be wrong, but from what I think I remember, somewhere in August seems right.

StampCrow, Sinclair, and ClassicCoins --

Great material all of you are showing today.

Regarding the NY 4-bar CDS cancel -- Alexander states in Simpsons...

"Until use of the townmark as canceller was prohibited in 1860, the New York postmaster experimented with a series of combination townmark-obliterators, with one to six bars in the center as an aid in cancelling stamps".

I have seen the 1, 2, 3, and 4-bar cancels on numerous stamps and covers -- but have never seen a 5-bar or 6-bar NY cancel on an actual stamp or cover -- (and with regard to the 5 bar -- not even sure that it exists as I have never seen a tracing either).

Does anybody know if a "5 bar" NY cancel exists?

Also, can anybody show an example of either a 5-bar NY CDS (presuming that there is such a cancel), or a 6-bar NY cancel on stamp or cover?

Regards // ioagoa

The NYC Ocean Mail cancels would fall in this category and probably satisfy the assertion.

Also there is a weird serrated slug from 1851 I'm sure, that may be 5. It's rare.

Give me some time and I can post a five or six bar cancel. It is a modification of the large single slug cancel or vice versa. I've had a couple but just have one now.

I didn't know that a 5 bar existed!! Looking forward to seeing that.

Here's one I'll likely never identify the town. But it's pretty neat to have a straight line month and day hand stamp.

That's a really interesting cancel, Stephen! Thanks for showing it.