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Posted 09/09/2020   09:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Al E. Gator to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have seen lots of examples of this type cancel with two sets of two vertical lines but this is the first I've seen with two sets of three vertical lines. Is this an uncommon cancel?

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A machine from the Columbia Postal Supply Company.

The Morris/Payne/Holmes Columbia books list the 6-2-6-2-6 (wavy lines and bars) as the standard configuration, in several slightly different sizes.

Three vertical bars are far less common. Only 2 towns total according to Hanmer's "A Collector's Guide to U.S. Machine Postmarks, 1871-1925" Both are unique types The 7-3-5-3-5 combination of Marshall, Michigan used there 1902-1911, so quite common; and the 7-3-7-3-7 type of Atlantic City, NJ.

Here are the 5-2-5-2-5 and 6-2-6-2-6 configurations of Lima OH and Kalamazoo, MI along with another Marshall, MI

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Thank You John,
So, a bit uncommon by not scarce from Marshall, Mich.
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I'm brand new to anything stamps after finding my gpa's collection. Just registered and this is first post I've seen. I have a book he kept which I know realize is JUST cancel marks. Incredible coincidence.
Here is a pic of the Atlantic City cancel mark form 1902.
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