A recent acquisition was this Canadian postcard, which I bought for the interesting photo. It wasn't until I gave the back a closer examination that I discovered a Montreal postmark on a U.S. stamp. This certainly would have gone against regulations -- does it seem like an inattentive error or more like "we will just let this one slide" ? How common is something like this?
Rather common especially on tourist postcards so easily carried absentmindedly across the border and mailed whenever they remembered. Usully caught for postage due, but with so many thousands mailed each day a few are bound to get through undetected.
It is quite nice. I thought I've seen many covers but maybe I'm still wrong, I think examples like yours where there is no evidence of the unpaid (in proper postage of the hosted or origin nation) being "caught" are scarce enough. One usually sees "postage due" marking (sometimes alone, with no evidence it was actually paid), and sometimes stamps of both border nations.
We tend to forget that in Franklin's day, there was no U.S. or Canada, just lots of British colonies. I believe he traveled all the post roads while he was PM, to assess their condition. That was a LOT of territory back then.
jogil, do you know who did the printing for the lower stamp? That portrait matches the U.S. $100 bill, so I wonder if it was produced by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing.
Last evening, I made a post here with some information about Benjamin Franklin and his role as the Deputy Postmaster General of British North America. This morning I decided it was not appropriate for this thread, so I created a new thread here and moved the information. I apologize for hijacking this thread.
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