JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Mar 8, 2020 18:55:12 GMT
New in the mail yesterday:VISIT GLACIER NATIONAL PARK GREAT FALLS, MONT.
1920
A bit nicer condition than usually found.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Mar 10, 2020 13:32:45 GMT
New in the mail yesterday:
ADDRESS YOUR MAIL TO STREET AND NUMBER CLEVELAND 1921
Addressed to name and City/State only. Likely held at the Houston post office for collection.
Forwarded to Memphis Tenn with GD in address (General Delivery) MEMPHIS GENERAL DELIVERY round dater
An example of need for Street and Number in address
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Mar 10, 2020 13:44:59 GMT
New in yesterday's mail:
World War I patriotic slogans are a favorite of mine.
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Post by gregalex on Mar 12, 2020 4:29:34 GMT
...machine slogan postmarks in the US go back to the late 1890s, promoting the the likes of the Buffalo Exposition, Philadelphia Exposition and a Dallas Exposition. These were formatted for what are called "Barry" cancelling machines manufactured by a company of the same name. As it happens, I have one of those promotional cancels for the Buffalo Fair. I was very proud of myself for fishing it out of a bargain bin. ;-) Actually, most of my intriguing slogans came from poking through such boxes.     |
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 16, 2020 13:26:59 GMT
Posting this cover here before putting it where it belongs, in my Stamp Dealers Cover Collection. This dealer's successful attempt to give his customer a bullseye cancel left plenty of space for a clearly struck slogan cancel. I consider myself fortunate that the addressee didn't cut the stamp off this cover. It is the first cover I've seen from the "Stamp Detective."
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 22, 2020 16:30:28 GMT
I'm posting this Indianapolis dentist/cachet designer/stamp&cover dealer's cover for the slogan cancel it received. As a small boy, I remember, although more vaguely these days, going from our family farm with my parents to the small county seat town where they did weekly shopping. It was in the fall, I believe, when ladies from one of the military auxiliaries, VFW maybe, would stand on the corners of the main streets and solicit donations, a quarter or half dollar preferred, but nickels and dimes accepted gratefully, that were dropped into quart-sized containers. The donations were for the "Community Chest," the forerunner of United Way. In return for a contribution, the donor would receive a small plastic red feather to be worn on outer clothing marking that person as one who "had given." While I purchased the cover for other collecting reasons, I consider this slogan cancel as a bonus that brought back some pleasant childhood memories. The feather in the cancel, coincidentally, is well positioned on Wm. Henry Harrison's head.
Don StampHinger
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de61
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Post by de61 on Mar 22, 2020 21:51:00 GMT
I'm posting this Indianapolis dentist/cachet designer/stamp&cover dealer's cover for the slogan cancel it received. As a small boy, I remember, although more vaguely these days, going from our family farm with my parents to the small county seat town where they did weekly shopping. It was in the fall, I believe, when ladies from one of the military auxiliaries, VFW maybe, would stand on the corners of the main streets and solicit donations, a quarter or half dollar preferred, but nickels and dimes accepted gratefully, that were dropped into quart-sized containers. The donations were for the "Community Chest," the forerunner of United Way. In return for a contribution, the donor would receive a small plastic red feather to be worn on outer clothing marking that person as one who "had given." While I purchased the cover for other collecting reasons, I consider this slogan cancel as a bonus that brought back some pleasant childhood memories. The feather in the cancel, coincidentally, is well positioned on Wm. Henry Harrison's head.
Don StampHinger
Great cover, Don. I have never seen an Ioor label before and the feather cancel on Harrison's head is terrific. Thanks, also, for the history lesson on the Red Feather program. It seems there is some disagreement, though, on what was Dr. Harry Ioor's medical specialty. You indicate he was a dentist and the Rhodesian Study Circle website states he was a chiropractor. I always thought he was an optometrist!! From the Rhodesian Study Circle website: Harry C. Ioor United States Ioor Cachets were produced by the early FDC Cachet Pioneer, Harry C. Ioor, many with the artistic assistance of his sister, Travilla Ioor. Harry Ioor was located at 802 State Life Bldg, Indianapolis IN, where he also operated a chiropractic practice. The First Cachets by Harry C. and Travilla Ioor were five different varieties issued on 25th February, 1929. Early Ioor Cachets of the period 1929-1933 are based on fine line drawings. Ioor Cachets from 1934-1940 tend to be black-and-white photos surrounded by a block of a single bright color. Harry Ioor never married. He died Feb 16, 1940, before the completion of the Famous American Series of 1940. His sister Travilla completed this Series and continued the Ioor brand of Cachets. Travilla Ioor’s cachets from 1940-1951 are usually identified by the signature “Ioor” someplace in the design. Travilla Ioor met her FDC competitor, E. Milnor Peck (the founder and owner of the Fleetwood Cover Service), when Peck came to Indianapolis August 29, 1949. It was love at first sight, and they were married in June of 1950 and combined their FDC businesses. Travilla’s Last Cachet for the Ioor line was in 1951. Travilla died March 16, 1967. After the death of Travilla, Milnor Peck lost his enthusiasm for continuing the FDC business, and in December of 1968 he sold Fleetwood Cover Service to to Unicover Corporation of Cheyenne WY. |
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Post by stamphinger on Mar 22, 2020 23:15:09 GMT
Hi de61:
I did a quick search on Google and turned up a short Linns article that also said he was a chiropractor. That is two votes for chiropractor, or maybe it is a case of Linns and the Study Circle using each other's article. Chiropractor is good with me. Thanks for your post and for including the Study Circle article. By way of further explanation, I also collect covers with variant airmail borders and some cover dealers credit Ioor with producing some of the borders using words and phrases such as this one commemorating National Air Mail Week in Indianapolis:
 I have never seen any written evidence that Ioor designed and had printed this airmail border, or any other like it, but I keep looking for proof. The phrase "Special Envelopes for Special Purposes" on the Ioor label in my original post above lends credence to the claim. Perhaps, he did design covers like this and sold them to organizations and individuals for special mailings. All interesting to me, but the topic needs its own thread and I don't wish to hijack this one more than I have. Don StampHinger
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Mar 28, 2020 0:05:06 GMT
And now, today's much awaited post on US Slogan Cancels...
Hey, where did everybody go???
H e l l o .....
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Top: Time Cummins machine for PERRY'S VICTORY CENTENNIAL Listed in the Payne book as EX Scarce for this January 1913 use I didn't know that when I bought it 
Center: 1899 Barry machine slogan promoting the OHIO CENTENNIAL of 1902
Bottom: From that lot of 100 I bought, Universal machine GIVE ENOUGH THROUGH YOUR COMMUNITY CHEST
and "Red Feather" graphic used from Waukegan, IL.
Typewritten endorsement FIRST DAY OF USE OF COMMUNITY CHEST CANCEL (Most likely first day of use during 1959. The cancellation was introduced nationwide in 1949)
Signed by the Community Chest President and the Waukegan IL postmaster
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 5, 2020 17:33:24 GMT
I am considering the slogan on this cover a companion piece to my Red Feather slogan above. The United Way was the successor organization to the Red Feather Community Chests. The cover commemorates and publicizes the long-running Dairy Cattle Congresses held annually in Waterloo, Iowa. As the accompanying leaflet notes in "Other Attractions," attendees could also attend an American Poultry Congress at the same venue, making the 1948 3 cents stamp commemorating the poultry industry very appropriate franking. The infamous chicken stamp had a purpose after all.
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Post by gregalex on Apr 6, 2020 21:49:52 GMT
So here's something you don't often see on a cancellation: a misspelling! This slogan cancel marked the launch of a submarine, but "Christening" got an extra T. Has anyone else seen any misspelled cancellations?  |
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 9, 2020 16:31:54 GMT
This cover from Samuel T. Freeman & Co, Auctioneers has a clearly struck "In the Spirit of Paul Revere/Buy Defense Bonds" object/slogan cancel.
Don StampHinger
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 9, 2020 22:16:38 GMT
gregalex - I believe the 3-cent Teachers commem of the 1950s has a FD cancel with a misspelling! Never had one of those. I just now checked my collection, I have 3 other ship christenings but correctly spelled. stamphinger - what a lovely impression. I see it was used at 4 different cities, no telling how many diff slogan dies.
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Post by ckildegaard on Apr 13, 2020 2:41:44 GMT
These are all very cool. What would it take to convince the postal service to bring this kind of thing back? It's certainly more interesting than the uniform machine cancels/postmarks that get printed now, and I can imagine great modern uses for it.
I assume the machinery could just be reprogrammed, couldn't it?
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 15, 2020 17:44:55 GMT
The US has a new ink-jet slogan postmark commemorating the 50th Anniversary
of Earth Day in 1970. This is my first readable example, but on a 6 x 9 cover.
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 15, 2020 17:52:44 GMT
A couple of items with 1903 St. Louis, MO, World Fair cancellations. The first a commercial cover sent to McAlester, Indian Territory and the second a souvenir post card depicting the Education and Social Economy Building at the fair. An employee of the Jackson Park Station in Chicago thoughtfully placed the station receiving cancel on the address side of the card so as not to spoil the picture side.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 15, 2020 18:59:26 GMT
Nice duo. Note the year 1903 is removed from the slogan die.
The exhibition wasn't until 1904 so maybe because the 1903 was confusing.
Some neat pics of the fair and info:
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 15, 2020 19:23:40 GMT
Jeff:
Thanks for posting that link. The architecture and scope of that fair is amazing. Hard to believe that all that work was demolished shortly after the fair was over.
Don
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 16, 2020 16:43:14 GMT
I found this non-philatelic cover with a "Help Retarded Children" slogan cancel in a shoe box and don't remember the circumstances of its acquisition. However, considering the plainness of the cover, my guess is I found it in a dealer's junk box and bought it with the intent of soaking the stamp off for my Slogan Cancels on Stamps collection. I'll probably leave it on cover now.
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 27, 2020 17:06:43 GMT
A recent acquisition that I collected for my airmail border collection, which also has a dedicatory slogan cancel. It is actually an airport dedication cover converting the Oklahoma City municipal airport to Will Rogers Field, an U.S. Army Air Base. The Army Air Force used the field for bomber flight training during WW II. It is still called Will Rogers Field and is OKC's terminal for major airline flights to and from the city. It is also a joint civil/military field and used by the Oklahoma Air National Guard. The slogan reads "For National Defense/U.S. Army/Dedication/Will Rogers Field" Don StampHinger  |
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on May 1, 2020 20:18:33 GMT
A New Slogan for My Collection:INTERNATIONAL WHEAT SHOW OCT. 1-13-1917 WICHITA.KANS. 
The building illustrated on the cover is that of the Wichita fire station
and city hall. It was a popular subject in the early PPC era.
The addressee, Horne's Zoological Arena, was a major supplier
of "exotic" animals to zoos and private collectors into the 1930s.
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de61
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Post by de61 on May 10, 2020 23:00:27 GMT
A postal card from 1992 with several interesting aspects. It has a "Fall in Love with Stamp Collecting" cancel, which falls somewhere between a slogan cancel and a pictorial postmark. It also has a relatively early single-line spray-on cancel from 1992. My research shows spray-on cancels were introduced in 1989 in the US and in 1992 in Canada. My favorite part, though, is it advertises the "First Competitive Exhibit Ever of All Computer Generated Pages!" at the PITTPEX '92 Stamp Show. Today, we couldn't imagine putting together an exhibit or creating pages without a computer.   |
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Post by stamphinger on May 14, 2020 17:32:51 GMT
Here's another cover commemorating the long-running National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa, with a cancel announcing the dates of the event. This cover is the first I have seen from the Dairy Congress that has a color cachet. It also breaks from the event's past covers by also commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Rath Packing Company.
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Post by stamphinger on May 14, 2020 21:12:13 GMT
A common slogan cancel during the 1920 and 30s, but I didn't see it posted yet. From my Iowa advertising cover collection is this Red Cross/Roll Call/Join cancel. A clear strike. The Waterloo postal employees kept their canceling devices clean.
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Post by stamphinger on May 15, 2020 21:05:02 GMT
A cover with slogan cancel advertising the Panama-California International Exposition held in San Diego, California, between Jan 1, 1915 and Jan 1, 1917. The motive for the exposition was the opening of the Panama Canal and to promote San Diego as a desirable port of call for north bound shipping transiting the canal. Unfortunately, this cover has received rough treatment between its posting and entering my collection. An added collecting point, however, is the in-period cinderella in the lower left corner, the primary reason I acquired the cover.
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Post by stamphinger on May 15, 2020 23:16:15 GMT
A cool rainy day at home and I've been writing up and mounting covers today, and here is another, a souvenir card with an exposition slogan cancel. The cancel advertises the Panama Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco, California, from February 20 to December 4, 1915. It is appropriately franked with Sc. 397, the 1 cent, low value of the 1915 four stamp set issued to commemorate the exposition. Like its counterpart to the south (San Diego), the Panama Pacific Expo commemorated the opening of the Panama Canal, but, in this case, it was also intended to showcase San Francisco as fully recovered from the 1906 earthquake. The card features an attractive, to me at least, night scene of San Francisco Bay. The message on the card makes reference to the writer having ridden on "The Safety Racer" and of the ride being great sport. A Google search indicates "The Safety Racer" was a set of parallel roller coasters at the exposition that "raced" each other from their start to finish.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on May 25, 2020 15:32:57 GMT
Picked up this morning: GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT 1917 flag slogan
Such are the makings of a tidy niche collection, or maybe just interest.
Listed by Paine as very scarce, this example a day earlier than listed in the book. Two dies are recognized depending on the positioning of U of AUGUST beneath B of BOSTON. |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 7, 2020 22:37:52 GMT
I don't remember seeing a "Join the March of Dimes" slogan in this thread. On an airmail cover from my Airmail Borders collection commemorating the first flight of the Convair 990 airliner.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,109
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Jun 13, 2020 17:08:43 GMT
A recent slogan addition:
PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL EXPORT EXPOSITION 1899
Probably collected more for the flag format, or as an expo promotion, but I ain't proud. I'll take it anyway.
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oldpapercollect
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My constant fascination with these bits of paper ephemera keeps me motivated.
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What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jun 15, 2020 17:56:36 GMT
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