Show Your 1851-61 Era Cancellations And Postal Markings

super nice one txstamp

nice fancy postmark of Woodville MI on a 11A, Simpson page 140, #181, rarity 3

nice ornamented Mason NH postmark, simpson page 58 and 88, no 194, rarity 7, on a #26 stamp

this one has me puzzled. bought both covers seperately, with some time inbetween

non of my 3 books show this shield cancel
not simpson, Cole or the stampless cover catalogue

now I know there is more books out there, I just do not have them, so I am hoping someone can help me on this one...or, nearly impossible, did I find a unknown marking?? hoping we have a NY postal history collector that can help

durhamville - Its certainly an interesting killer. I have no information on it.

If its a November 1860 time frame, there was certainly a lot going on politically that inspired other creations. A horse head? The durhamville "blob" ?

Can't have this thread continue without a New-York APL.

Good one. The New York APL cancels are interesting.

Dr DiComo has a nice article on these here:

https://www.uspcs.org/resource-cent...el-revisted/

While I'm making a post, I'll take the opportunity to throw up a few more NYC 1853 year dates. These are definitely neat.

Thank you stampcrow, I did not know about the APL

always good to learn something new

Dutch, excellent. This is a great thread.

2 covers one with #11A and other 26

different towns, but both have a "open" letter type

cannot find either them in american stamp less cover catalogue or Simpson

Nice markings.

The Hudson one with an N-J is listed in the ASCC (American Stampless Cover Catalog), however, it mentions a paid as well. Just a guess but it might be the same device with a different, or additional slug as opposed to yours.

Txstamp,

you mean on page 124? that one states paid as you mentioned but also RED, so between the wrong colour and paid, and no mention fancy lettertype, I presumed it was not this one.

or am I looking at the wrong page?

Page 226, volume 1, fifth edition 1997.

It indicates Red, Black.
If you search on Hudson NJ at worldcovers, it also indicates Red,Black - no doubt copied from the ASCC.

Worldcovers - https://www.worldcovers.org/marking...ls/?ID=23553

This is just a wonderful cover. This is franked with a pair of 12c #17s, and two single 3c #11A's. This pays the 30c rate, via Prussian Closed Mail to Wurttemberg. There is nothing super rare about such covers, as there are a fair number of them, either stampless, or franked with 3 10c stamps.

This is an example, however, of where a particular unusual franking (group of stamps to make up a rate) actually makes an item more interesting.

Furthermore, and to the point of this thread -- look very closely at the postal markings on this cover. Its fascinating.

The stamps were originally postmarked at Cincinnati on Oct 0?, 1853 with Red CDS's. If I am reading that correctly it appears to be a 0 for the day, which is clearly incorrect. They forgot to put the '1' slug in for '10', or similar.
They were then, once again, postmarked at Cincinnati, this time, in Blue on Oct 10, 1853.

Next, the cover traveled to New York City, where it was initially postmarked with a Red NYC exchange marking, indicating a 30c credit to the Prussian states - which is incorrect. To correct this error, NYC got out its (correct) 7c credit device and struck it over the original one, such that the PAID part of the new strike obliterates the incorrect '30' from the original strike.

The 'FRANCO' means PAID, and was applied at Aachen.

So it looks like BOTH Cincinnati and New York City made mistakes on their original postmarks on this cover, and took action to correct them. Cincinnati over-struck the original cds with a different color, while NYC used part of the second cancellation (PAID) as an obliterator for the incorrect credit rating.

When I saw this cover for sale, I knew that I would wind up with it.

Txstamp

thats super interesting.

i never really got into rates, but did get into cancellations. this is a really nice mixture