Verifying: NYC Cancel On Nebraska Overprint? (Scott Number 675)

Good day,

I find precancels with cancellations other than the city in question to be rather amusing, and Kansas and Nebraska overprints, even moreso.

I came across the following stamp for sale online, and I am hoping for a second opinion.



To my eyes, it looks like a New York City cancellation - perhaps Grand Central Annex, or maybe Church Street Annex, among others - but there is so much that I don't know. Further, I am an eternal optimist, and have a bad habit of seeing what I want to see.

My question is this: Is there anything other than than a New York City cancel that it might reasonably be, and if so, what?

Thank you in advance.

The "N.Y." limits it to New York state and as you mention the "annex" is part of the name.

Now if you go here: https://www.postalhistory.com/posto...asp?state=NY and search for the word "annex" you will see the 12 post offices with the word "annex" as part of the name. You will also see the county and date or dates of operation. Dealer Jim Forte put that together and shares it for free.

The initial "H..." in the killer and the "Annex" in the CDS make this "Hudson Terminal Annex".

Add: of course, the whole killer abbreviation is "HT", similarly,
GC = Grand Central

Parcelpostguy -

I assumed as much, but there is so much that I don't know, and I hate to completely jump to conclusions.

John -

Aha! That clears things up completely.

Thank you both!

- Christopher

The overprint does not appear genuine to me, the "N" in particular. It also looks like it is on top of the cancel (though this would need to be verified on the actual stamp).

Interesting - I looked only at the cancelation until the overprint itself was challenged. The N does look like it is on top of the cancelation!

A black cancel with a black overprint frequently produces an optical illusion about which is on top. The reality is that it's impossible to tell from a scan, or even from just looking without using a high powered method of viewing. A 20x or more. What would be the point of faking the overprint on a used damaged stamp? They were valid for postage anywhere.

My question exactly - just had never seen this "optical illusion"

I agree with revcollector's opinion, it is virtual impossible to determine if a same-color overprint is under/over a cancel. It is easy to find many examples where the cancel appears on top of the overprint in one area of the stamp and under the overprint in another area. Bitmap images are made up of pixels, and to represent a color (even like black) there are thousand and thousands of different colored pixels. I think this is the reason that our eyes cannot tell the Z axis of a X,Y axis bitmap image.
Don

Just noticed some very rarely seen full sheets are being sold with the Kansas and Nebraska overprints at malack.com