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Canal Zone Anybody?

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Posted 08/15/2012   10:13 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Tefloncinco to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
yes I have some canal zone stamps, will post some more later

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Posted 08/15/2012   11:20 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampvirgin to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I believe that I found a block of four, president stamps with a canal zone over print. I will look it up later and post and image.
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Posted 08/15/2012   12:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, the 1/2 cent and 1 and 1/2 cent prexies were overprinted for use in the Canal Zone.
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Posted 08/15/2012   12:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampvirgin to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, Thanks Anthony, I think I have the 1 1/2 cent one. Are they common?
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Posted 08/15/2012   12:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They are common mint. Uncommon used. Scarce on cover.
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Posted 08/15/2012   7:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Tefloncinco to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Canal Zone (Wet or Dry) you got mail I got some planes today.











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Posted 08/18/2012   11:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is the Benjamin Franklin Half Cent prexie overprinted for use in the Canal Zone uprating a one cent Theodore Roosevelt stamped envelope to pay the bulk rate for this item.



I believe this cover was used during the opening of the Margarita Post Office in the early 1950's (1952 I think) to advise them of their new address.
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Posted 08/19/2012   11:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stallzer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is one of those novelty mailing cards. It's a tri-fold probably purchased in the gift shop aboard the ship SS Ecuador, operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship company.



The inside shows the "Cold Buffet" Menu.

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Posted 08/19/2012   11:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That's an attractive item.

It is traditional to serve cold food during the warm part of the day. That orange meringue pie sounds yummy.
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Posted 08/20/2012   12:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Opening day of New Curundu Post Office

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Posted 08/24/2012   11:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is always nice to relax with a magazine.





Uncommon France Field duplex, 1937.
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Posted 08/27/2012   10:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stallzer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Now that this thread has started it seems that every pile of covers I go through I find one.

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Posted 08/27/2012   10:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Smauggie, the France Field duplex is fairly scarce. I sold one on ebay in June for $15+, which strikes me as a lot for a 1930s Canal Zone cancel.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAP...280894763589
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Posted 08/27/2012   10:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I happen to know that a block with 3 examples of Canal Zone Scott No. 20d lost for the last 100 years will be coming up at auction soon. There were 10 errors created, all were discovered about 1912 and than all were lost until the 1970's when 5 or 6 were rediscovered. Now these 3 have been found.
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Posted 08/27/2012   10:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 597596 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry looks like I may ruin the topic since I only have stampless CZ cancels to add, recycled from an older post at that!











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