Canal Zone Anybody?

Here's one I picked up in a lot on Saturday. Only one complete with cover but 1 of the albums I picked up has a bunch of singles. I'll get those posted once I get them out of the album, soaked and dried:

I really like the map used in the cancel

Here they are with the hinges still attached: (not as many as I had thought - got the Phillipines mixed up

That's a nice postage due cover!

Some of the early stamped envelopes and postal cards of the Canal Zone can be pricey. After about 1940 or so they begin to become affordable for most people. Most postal Canal Zone postal stationary is offered in mint lots.

1962 4c scouts Canal Zone FDC

I find Canal Zone Scott # 105 a very interesting stamp since it exists in both wet printing and dry printing. Since it is the lowest denomination in both types, it makes it more affordable to get in plate blocks and sheets of both printings for comparison and research purposes. Both are flat plate printings, but one type which is older is wet and the other which is newer is dry. The wet printed stamps have a smaller sized design than the dry printed stamps. This is similar to the difference between U.S. wet printed flat plate stamps and U.S. wet printed rotary press stamps. For these I got U.S. Scott # 551 for flat plate sheets and U.S. Scott # 653 for rotary press sheets. However, the most affordable different sheets are Scott # 737 and # 738 for philatelic comparison reference purposes.

Registered Cover 1938

Though I do collect some US possessions, Canal Zone is one I've not really branched into, though I have a couple of individual stamps.
Did acquire this cover a while ago, which I think is kind of nice. Obviously philatelic, but still.



May have shown this one on the forum before, I really can't remember.

That's a nice one, Stallzer. You rarely see that 15 cent stamp on cover.

Most ships' clerks "celebrated" Navy Day one way or the other. The 27th of October was Theodore Roosevelt's birthday; he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897-1898, resigning to lead the famous "Rough Riders" regiment in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Thanks Smauggie, what I love about that cover is the personal note to the Postmaster.

"Postmaster, kindly see that this letter is delivered, address may be slightly incorrect" and what appears to be a smile penciled after the word "incorrect" but hard to see with the Stamp over it.

Yes, that is very unusual. I have never seen that on a cover.

The National League of American Pen Women still had a chapter in the Canal Zone in my day. My mother was a member.

My contribution to this Canal Zone thread is a stock certificate for the Panama Rail Road Company on revenue stamped paper (Scott U.S. RN-U1). Wikipedia provides good background on the railroad, which actually preceded the construction of the canal by approximately 50 years! As you can see, it was printed on very thin paper.

I rode that train quite a few times. Back then it was open air.

Here are some CZ stamps that I put on the thread: "... Stamps with Maps.."

These 1st three stamps show the progression of the stamp, 1st used when Panama was a department (province or county) of Colombia.

The 2nd stamp of the three was used by Panama after it obtained independence in 1903 and was replaced in 1906 by Panama's own stamps.

The third stamp is one of the Canal Zone's first stamps.



The second picture is a Canal Zone stamp with a map design and canceled with a map of Panama.



Lastly is a block of four, Scoot # 16a type c.



Enjoy.

mudhut, seeing your stamps on the other thread is what inspired me to dig the stock certificate out and look for a place to post it! I've been accumulating stuff for a long time with hardly anyone to show it to who might truly be interested. So I've been going a little crazy scanning and posting images during my first few days on SCF.

rustyc, I'm glad that you saw my other post of these stamps and went on to find and post this beautiful example of

this "Panama Rail Road Company on revenue stamped paper" (Scott U.S. RN-U1)..

Again, thanks for posting it.