Hello Again - Glad To Be Back Here

Hello Everyone,

I thought I had better introduce myself again as it has been a long time, close to 5 years since I have been in these forums. I still have all the stamps I was working with back then, they are packed away and stored on another property for the time being.

Today I am faced with another huge project, I have approximately 150 postcards from the turn of the last century. Most have stamps on them - canceled of course, while some do not. I didn't know where to begin with them so I took them out of the album they were in and sorted them by those with stamps and those without stamps. The breakdown is 27 old cards without stamps, and the rest of the postcards have canceled stamps on them. A large number of the cards came from the San Francisco Bay Area, and then about 30 or so are from all over Europe from a son who wrote back to his mother as he traveled Europe. I also have a small stamp collection that I also have to deal with. So that is what I have to work on currently.

If anyone is interested in the postcards or their stamps I would sure love to hear from you. Unfortunately, I no longer have a Scott catalog, and if anyone knows of a sensible place where I can get one I would be eternally grateful. I prefer of course, that the Scott catalog be online.

And so, in the tradition of this forum as I remember it, I will scan a postcard in. I am choosing this postcard because it has a double cancel which intrigues me.

Thank you, Julie

My guess is that it was first cancelled wrong way. Someone spotted the error immediately and put it through the canceling machine again, this time right way.

Welcome back!
Don

Welcome back.

Hello again,

I could swear I had replied to this already, but I don't see any reply so I must not have.

Kuikka, I think you must be right that they canceled this card the wrong way first, then noticed it and re-canceled it the correct way the second time. Thank you for pointing that out because I had not thought of why they had canceled the postcard twice. Thank you for your observation.

And thank you to Don and Wkusua for welcoming me.

By the way, I forgot to note on the first post that the postcard is a Mitchell.

Thanks, Julie

Welcome Back!

Thank you angore for the welcome, I do appreciate it. Julie

back jchrisler,

Collecting for the enjoyment of collecting, whatever that might be, is the name of the game. Don't hesitate to ask questions especially if you need basic information and especially more advanced sources of information for any possible topic. You should be able to find folks on this board a little further along on their collecting journey glad to share experiences. Russ

Welcome back

I want to say thank you to hoosierboy and funcitypapa for welcoming me back. I do very much appreciate the welcome, thank you, Julie