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Please Help Me Identify This Early US Postal Card.ux?

 
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Posted 02/18/2022   08:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add thepackrat to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello. I have this Postal Card and cannot seem to find it in the catalog. It is not UX12 or UX14 because of how the wreath is at the bottom and the top. Also, the name Jefferson is not legible. You can barely make out the JE and the rest cannot be seen. My first thought is a possible counterfeit.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Robert



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Posted 02/18/2022   09:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jleb1979 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is a UX14 unused on Hipstamp now which is close in appearance to yours at the top and just needs more over-inking to get there at the bottom. Makes me think it is really bad printing.

https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/us.../?shopping=1

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Posted 02/18/2022   09:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jobi01 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Definitely looks like an overinked UX14 which went through the mails and has seen better days. There were 2,592,855,000 printed so a few inking problems would be expected especially since it was printed by the infamous Albert Daggert.
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Posted 02/18/2022   09:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add thepackrat to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
OK Thanks for the input. With so many being printed......and a few defects being expected, that would mean big dollars because its one of a few.....right? I know I know only kidding. I have a lot to learn.
I will put it in my collection as an over inking.
Thanks again,
Robert
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big dollars

HaHa. Nope. The printing quality of these is overall quite poor. Finding cards like this is easy.

On the postal history side, the Pittston, PA cancel is from a Doremus machine. designated in Frederick Langford's "Standard Encyclopedia of Doremus Machine Cancels" as a "type B", used in 1900 and 1901, an unusual and somewhat uncommon type since it was used in smaller towns and before the postcard craze took off a few years later.
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Posted 02/18/2022   1:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add thepackrat to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi John. Thanks for that info. This is really cool to know. I will print out this info and keep it with the card.
Thanks!
Bob
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