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Post by stamphinger on Apr 11, 2020 19:53:04 GMT
[ADMIN NOTE: This thread was started using posts originally made on the US Slogan Cancels thread.] I hope Jeff will overlook the intrusion of this cover. It is not a slogan cancel, but a well struck postal station cancel, a close cousin, on a stamp dealer to stamp dealer cover. Harmer & Rooke, well known auctioneers to Elliott Perry, philatelic pundit and author of Pat's Paragraphs, a collection of his columns on early U.S. stamps. Don StampHinger
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Post by de61 on May 10, 2020 22:48:46 GMT
An "Army Gunnery School" slogan cancel on a cacheted free-frank cover from 1944.
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Post by JeffS on May 11, 2020 0:26:12 GMT
de61 - thanks for posting. Actually the ARMY GUNNERY SCHOOL and similar text machine cancels indicate a postal station. A collectible in their own right but not really slogan cancels. Slogan cancels, or "Promotional Slogan Cancels" per the title of a major slogan cancel book, should advertise or promote a person, place (tourism), thing, or occurrence, or celebration. One could likely add to this list of qualifiers. Back on April 11 stamphinger also made this distinction.
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Post by stamphinger on May 11, 2020 13:09:19 GMT
I do like the Army Gunnery School cancellation. I think we need to start a Postal Station Cancel thread to parallel this one and maybe a moderator can move the two mentioned cancels into it. Lots of station cancels out there. Just those from New York City would make a nice mini collection.
Don Stamphinger
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Post by JeffS on May 11, 2020 14:37:32 GMT
stamphinger - great idea. Is your intent to incorporate station hand cancels as well? There is a history of them going back to the 1880s if not earlier. Just drawing a bucket from an old well.
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Post by stamphinger on May 11, 2020 18:39:15 GMT
Jeff:
I had not thought of hand cancels, but yes, why not? Anything that identifies a specific postal station, machine or hand cancel would be welcome. Including specific numbers or letters that identify a postal station might be overdoing it, though.
Don
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Post by stamphinger on May 11, 2020 19:04:11 GMT
Well, thanks to the forum administrator, the postal station cancels thread is on its way. Here's a 1909 flag cancel from Portland, Maine's West End Station on an advertising post card. I wonder if it is still in operation under the same name?
Don Stamphinger
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Post by JeffS on May 11, 2020 19:56:35 GMT
stamphinger - this for the most part (like slogans) is a collecting area easy on the budget for the most part. The subject becomes interesting when one tries to find where the stations were located within the municipality, and if they changed locations. Have fun. I think it's a good venture. Philadelphia and Boston are heavy with them. Dare I suggest trying to locate picture post cards showing the office station?
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Post by stamphinger on May 12, 2020 12:10:25 GMT
I can't do a picture post card at this time, but I do have this 1941 cover dedicating Benson Station in Omaha, Nebraska. While now in the Omaha metro area, Benson was once a community on what was known as the Military Highway. I worked in the Omaha Post Office in the early 1960s, but was never assigned to Benson Station. I bought this cover at the APS national show in Omaha in August, 2019. The station looks much the same today as in the photo cachet of the cover.
Don StampHinger
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Post by JeffS on May 12, 2020 14:32:12 GMT
And, this has a personal attachment for you!
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 5, 2020 23:03:40 GMT
This cover out of my shoe box collection with three collecting points for me, the cinderella (Tide Water Associated Oil Company) on cover, a bullseye cancel on the stamp, and a clear postal station cancel from the Bronx. Does anyone know, is there a catalog for station cancels?
Dpn Stamphinger.
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 19, 2020 16:28:08 GMT
A cover from my stamp dealers' cover collection with a Chicago Lawn Station cancel in the postmark dial.
Don Stamphinger
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Post by JeffS on Jun 19, 2020 21:08:14 GMT
stamphinger - I don't recall seeing CHICAGO LAWN STA. before
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 11, 2020 20:42:29 GMT
I happened across this Burlington Station cancel while doing some work in my Stamp Dealer Covers collection. It has been a long time since I lived in Omaha and worked for the post office, but as I recall, the Burlington Railroad Station was on south 10th street, just south across the railroad tracks from the Union Station. This post office would have been inside the Burlington railroad station. The stamp dealer's address was in a residential area an additional eight blocks south and one block west. Jo-Lo probably sold stamps by mail out of his house. An obliging postal clerk gave the sender a neat cancel.
Don StampHinger
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 12, 2020 10:04:35 GMT
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 18, 2020 21:16:12 GMT
This 1941 cover has a Columbia machine cancel with the Marine Corps Base station ID in the fourth bar of the seven bar killer. Marine Corps Base, San Diego, dates back to 1921. The base was officially renamed Marine Corps Recruit Depot, (MCRD) San Diego, in 1948. MCRD is noted for its Spanish Colonial architecture build around three sides of the main parade ground and is a very attractive military installation. I spent 14 weeks at MCRD as a seventeen year old recruit in 1956.
I don't know who drew the cartoon. There is a signature, Joe, at the foot of the hammock, but he is unknown to me. The cover fits nicely, though, in my Cartoon Cachets collection.
Don StampHinger
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 19, 2020 22:05:18 GMT
Here is a Linden Station (San Francisco) postmark on an International Response Coupon (Scott IRC32). The clerk must not have been too familiar with these as he or she placed the postmark in the wrong box.
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 18, 2020 22:46:51 GMT
A U.S. Navy Crosby Christmas cachet posted "free" Christmas Day at the Naval Hospital Branch, San Diego, California. The three aircraft in the cachet photo look like Douglas TBD-1 Devastators. The Devastator was a 1930s torpedo bomber, the Navy's first monoplane selected for carrier operations. The TBD-1's were still operational at the beginning of WW II, but suffered heavy losses in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Those remaining after Midway were relegated to training roles.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 23, 2020 20:02:45 GMT
A cover posted May 17, 1938, at Evansville, Indiana' Station C, during National Air Mail Week, with the station designation in the cancel dial. I purchased this cover not for its cancel, but for the image of the Douglas DC 4E, the aircraft in the center of the cachet.
Douglas designed the DC 4E at the request of U.S. airlines who wanted an airplane as reliable and economical to operate as the DC 3, but one that would carry more passengers and fly at higher altitudes with more speed. The result was the DC 4E with its tricycle landing gear (an innovation at the time), four engines, 42 passenger capacity, a 200 mph cruise, and 22,900 feet service ceiling. Aircraft aficionados will note, however, that the airplane in the cachet is not the DC 4 that served so well during WW II and postwar with the airlines. The one in the cachet has three stubby vertical stabilizers instead of the single one on the production DC 4. The three short vertical stabilizers were necessary to allow the airplane to enter most of the hangars available in the mid-1930s and to increase directional control when flying with only two engines on one side. The DC 4E first flew on June 7, 1938. As designed, the DC 4E was a high maintenance aircraft and it had some control issues. Consequently, the DC 4E design didn't enter production, but its successor the DC 4, basically the same aircraft with modifications, was highly successful.
Don Stamphinger An internet photo of the DC 4E in flight.
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 17, 2020 14:28:31 GMT
This an "official" souvenir post card of the NYC 1939 World's Fair with a logo of the Trylon and Perisphere in the upper left corner. I collected this card for its Art Deco image of the fair's Westinghouse Electric Building. I post it in this thread for the NYC postal "station X" in the postmark dial. Station X was close to the last of the alphabetically named NYC stations. Was there a Y & Z as well, or, perhaps, X was reserved for temporary stations.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 20, 2020 19:49:46 GMT
A cover acquired for my John Coulthard cachet collection, but qualifying for this thread by its USS Swallow Puget Sound Navy Yard cancel. Its reverse also has a Bremerton, WA, Navy Yard Station machine cancel. USS Swallow was an old WW I era minesweeper that came to a bad end when it ran aground at Kanaga Island, Alaska Territory, in 1938. Salvage efforts were unsuccessful and the ship was abandoned and stricken from the Navy rolls in May, 1938.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 22, 2020 22:43:04 GMT
This 1912 card was posted at Omaha's Union Depot Postal Station. This Union Depot was a predecessor to the Union Station completed in 1931. As far as I know, the 1931 Union Station never had a post office. The night scene on the reverse references Ak-Sar-Ben. The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) was/is a civic and philanthropic organization dating back to the 19th century
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