Noteworthy Items with Flag Cancels



Noteworthy Items with Flag Cancels

Begun August 27, 2000

Last Update: April 30, 2005

ALABAMA

Eutaw Sc732

Evergreen 1c green Fran pse + 1c green Fran

Fairfield Sc619

Gadsden 2 Illus cc

Gadsden 3 on Reg Ret Rcpt

Gadsden 4 cc: odd hand-colored design

Geneva on Bus Reply

Greenville 2 cachet w/C11

Cachet w/C12

Huntsville 1 penalty envelope w/stamp: “U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,/FIFTH CIRCUIT./DAVID D. SHELBY, Circuit Judge,/New Orleans, La.”

Linden Sc727

Luverne 2x Sc705

Sc729

Mobile 2 illus cc w/Sc295

Sdel w/E4

Mobile 6 graphic cc w/matching letterhead

Mobile 8 Hotel ad, color, back

Mobile 9 3 x 1c green Wash to “Belize, B.H., Central America” mss “via New Orleans”

Pell City Sc733

Color cc, 3x Sc552/632

Selma Aux “address supplied. . .”

coke ad

ARIZONA

Bisbee 1 on lacy valentine

Miami sdel, aux h/s w/Sc562

Phoenix 1 aux: “Held for Postage.” crossed out

Phoenix 2 2c pc to Germany

Prescott gpc w/tax bill from collector

aux “unclaimed” and “return to writer”

Tucson 1c pse to Finland

ARKANSAS

Arkadelphia 3 purple h/s circ time recd

Berryville 2 small flag decals address to Mary Bishop

Camden 1 2c red Jeff pc revalued to 1c

Dermott cachet: “Community Bicentennial Celebration” w/Sc717

Fayetteville C14 U525

Jonesboro 3 C3 on forwarded cover; May 23, 1918 flight

Lonoke Sc775

Marvell bus rep env

Prescott 1 2c red Jeff pc revalued to 1c

Stamps National Stamp Week cachet 1936

2 copies: last day cancel, Sc782

cachet: state and flag for first day Sc782, but 3rd day (6-17-36)

Stephens Sc708

Van Buren 2c red Jeff pc revalued to 1c, pvt recd mkg

Waldo U481

Wilson UY7 (PR4)

CALIFORNIA

Alhambra aux: finger “return to writer”

Armona UY7 (PR4)

Artesia Sc732

Atwater Sc732

Balboa Island Sc727

cachet ’38 Tourn of Lights, green

Cachet ’39 Tourn of Lights, Sc654 and Sc705

Last day cover, Sc861

Berkeley 6 Sc398/402

Carmel C4 and C5 on 3-zone airmail to New Jersey w/RWB tag

Chino Sc644

Culver City PO penalty envelope w/ COD marking

Del Monte Sc397

Dos Palos Sc740 w/PM signature

small flag decals w/Sc773 (Mary Bishop)

El Segundo strange “4” in 4:30P in dial; made for different machine

Fairfax Sc740

Fontana airmail: 2 x Sc557 (5c TR)

C11 on crash cover; hs “Delay due to wrecked mail plane/January 10, 1930.” and green LA Arcade Sta Return to Writer Unclaimed marking, wreck 30.2, unclaimed marking is June 28, original cancel Jan. 10.

Fresno 2 blue w/ fancy hotel cc

aux: “General Delivery San Jose” circ h/s, red 1 in circ h/s

Garden Grove orange stripe w/Sc649

Grass Valley 1 cc: Barker & Smith Real Estate

Guerneville lower half of Sc751

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Huntington Beach blue “ATSF Coast Line Patton, Calif” h/s

Knights Landing cachet Xth Olympiad w/Sc740 and Sc741

La Canada UY7 (PR4)

Aux: “VIA AIR MAIL” w/2xSc732 and 2x1c green Fran

Sc729

Lemoncove small flag decals (Mary Bishop)

Lodi 3 Japanese cc: Miyajima Co. (and on back)

Loma Linda C19

Long Beach WP Sc397

Long Beach 3 illus cc: Hotel Virginia

Lynwood blue candy ad

Manhattan Beach airmail UC2, aux purple “Via Air Mail”

Monrovia 2 UO72 #10 envelope (postal savings pse)

Newcastle Sc615

Oakland 3 McKinley blotter

Oceanpark 2c to Canada

Oceanside 3 x 2c red Wash to Germany (overpaid)

Orange sdel w/E12 aux red “Fee Claimed by Office of First

Address”

Oroville Sc398

Sc548

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Palo Alto 2 aux purp h/s: “Victoria BC Gen Delivery”

Palo Alto 5 registered w/Sc417 (12c claret brown Franklin)

3c blue +2c red Wash stamps w/2 censor markings to Luderitzbucht, South West Africa “via Cape Town” w/Red Cross cc

Petaluma 1 aux: “POSTAGE DUE [1] CTS.” And 1c due over flag

Porterville (3) aux: box w/finger “Returned to Writer” pointing to “REASON FOR NON-DELIVERY CHECKED” “unclaimed” checked

Redlands 3 aux “Directory Service Given. . .”

Rialto Sc732

San Bernardino 1 2c red wash pse + 2 x 2 red Wash stamps (overpd) to Berlin, Germany

to Canal Zone w/2 1c Canal Zone stamps affixed over flag

San Carlos U420-U428, w/2c red Wash

San Diego 1 large multicolor hand-painted flower

pc to Havana w/”REGONADO” h/s, circ “Oficina de Rezagos/Habana”, h/s “LISTA DE CORREOS/HABANA.” and Habana repeater

San Diego Sta A Sc549

San Jose 2 UX16 to “Buitenzorg, Island Java” w/Java marking

San Jose 6 2c red pse + 2c red + 1c gn Wash to France w/censor marking and tape and h/s “OUVERT Par l’AUTORITE MILITAIRE”

San Jose WP 1 Sc357

San Jose WP 2 Q1

1+2+2pse to Switzerland

Sc398

San Jose Sta A WP unusual ppc w/Sc397

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San Pedro 2c pc to Japan

Santa Barbara 1 4c rate w/aux: purple “FORWARDED”

Santa Barbara 2 1c pse drop rate (U404?)

Santa Barbara 3 aux: purple “forwarded from Salem, Mass.”

Santa Clara 3 bisect: 1925 usage of 1c pse and bisected 1c green Washington

1c pse revalued to 1 1/2c

Santa Rosa 2 UY4 (PM3)

San Ysidro Sc729

Sebastopol U481

South Gate HGSta Sc729

favor cancel

So San Francisco perfin: “WM” [Western Meat]

Stanford Univ 3c pur Wash + 2c Wash pse to Chile

UY9 unsevered, revalued, embossed initial

Stockton 1 3x1c green Fran + 2c pse to Germany

Three Rivers Sc742 on “Washington’s Boyhood Home” cachet

CE1 on airport dedication cover 6-9-35: cachet “U.S. Army Dedication/Jefferson Davis Field/THREE RIVERS, CALIF./Pilot________” over stamp, “Davis Field”, Noel Britton, P.M. signed, Sol Sweet pilot signed

Vallejo aux: blue “PASSED BY CENSOR”

Van Nuys 1c and 1c PSE cover

Weaverville Sc773

Yucaipa Sc773

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LA: Arcade Sta aux: “Held for Postage/[unclear date]/LOS ANGELES, CAL.” Additional stamp added and aux: “This is the mail for which/you sent Postage.”

LA: Hol Sta WP pc w/stamp frame

unusual ppc w/Sc397

aux: red “Returned for Better Address.”

LA: Hol Sta orange envelope w/witch label

LA: WLk 2c coil on ppc

LA: WLk Sta WP UX22

LA: Brentwood Hts airmail to Canada 1933 w/aux: pur “Via Air Mail.” and C17

LA: Palms Sta cachet: 9-29-1936: 21st anniv 1st transc telephone line w/Sc684

cachet: 9-29-1936: 21st anniv 1st transc telephone line w/Sc783

LA: Sta A color label as cc

LA: Sta B airmail w/C7

LA: Sta H Sc 732

LA: Sta L Sc773 w/ Mary Bishop flag cachet

SF: B14(1) 2 blue graphic cc: Bonestell and Co. Paper Warehouse

SF: B14(1) 3 cc Hay and Grain

SF: B14(2) 1 cc fancy blue Bonestell and Co.

To Sutton Coldfield England forwarded to Birmingham (2c red Wash + 1c blue Frank + missing stamp)

SF: B14(3) 2 Rebekah Assembly IOOF fancy cc

SF: Sta B as recd on ppc from Amsterdam w/perfin Neth stamp (v.B.M.)

SF: Sta C 1 to Germany

SF: Sta C 2 aux: “Try Sta C” and RFD overstruck

SF: Sta E UY1 (PM1)

SF: Sta F cc illus Cooper Medical College

SF: Sta H 2c red Wash to Yokohama Japan

5c blue Lincoln to Yokohama Japan w/kon-ji

COLORADO

Brush Sc614

Colorado Springs1 1c pse to Berlin Germany

Delta 1c pse + Sc230

Denver Cap Hill Q1

Denver 5Pts Sta orange reg ret recpt

Denver Sden Sta illus cc

Fort Morgan 2 aux: “Missent to and Forwarded from Belmont, Ohio”

Glenwood Springs1 aux: “forwarded.”

Hotchkiss Sc729

Lamar 1 1½c pse

Pueblo 8 3c pur Wash on cover to AEF w/auxs: black “RETURN TO WRITER” and red “Addressee transferred to/[Camp Russell, Wyo.]/From: A.E.F./Central Directory Division/Pier No. 96, N.R.,N.Y.O./Date[22-5-19]” though flag is 10-28-18

Pueblo 9 to AEF w/British Term RPO

Salida 1 aux: “forwarded.”

Walsenburg on 1c pse #10 size

CONNECTICUT

Ansonia 3 aux: “Do Your Bit. . .”

Bridgeport 1 triangular blue cc: David Trubee & Co

Bridgeport 6 cream color w/ Baird machinery ad

Bridgep ES Sta red fancy cc

EFO: miscut 2c red Wash imperf

Derby 1 as recd on card from Italy w/Italian stamp

Greenwich 1 aux: “Forwarded”

Hartford 1 Sc286 and aux h/s “RETURNED TO SENDER,/CANNOT BE FOUND BY N.Y.P.O./ C.D./JUL 26 1898/DO NOT POST AGAIN IN THIS/ENVELOPE OR WRAPPER”

Hartford 2 2c grn Wash pse + 3c pur to Germany and redirected

Hartford StaA 2 yellow cc and illus over entire front

Kent cachet: r/w/b flag 6/14/34

Sc772

Meriden 4 Q2

Middletown 3 illus cc

pc w/1c postage due stamp

Milford 4 mourning cover

New Haven 1 2 x 1c blue Fran to Kingston, Ontario, Canada (odd size env)

2c pse + 3c pur Jackson to England forwarded to Naples, Italy

1c grn Fran + 5c blu Grant domestic

New Haven 2 2c red Wash + 3c pur Jack (Sc267, Sc268) to France, forwarded, addressed to Charles Upson Clark, interesting letter about teaching duties (at Yale) for coming year

1c gr Fr + 2x2c red Wash to Paris forw to Munich, addressed to Charles Upson Clark

New Haven 3 SpAm flag cover

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New Haven 4 LV red flag cc

New Haven Sta A 5c blue TR to Paris France

New London 3 hotel cc: 5c blue Lincoln to France forwarded to Vienna

N Grosvenor Dale 3 x Sc740 and PM signature

illus “Masonvile Specialty Co” [stamps] cc w/Sc740 and 741

Norwalk 1 aux: “UNCLAIMED” and “UNKNOWN” and pointing hand “Returned to Writer./Unclaimed/From/DANBURY,/CONN.”

Putnam 2 copies of flag; aux: “Held for Postage”; 1c green Wash w/plate number added then recancelled

Stonington Sc651

Suffield Sc772

Torrington 1 PO notice of postage due card, penalty

1+2+2PSE to Reunion Island

Sc399 (5c blue Pan Pac) to Germany

Waterbury 5 2c red pse + 3c pur Jackson to Germany

Auxs: pur “UNCLAIMED” and pur CDS “ADVERTISED,LONG BRANCH, N.J.” in outer ring and date in dial

Sc329

Winsted 3 Sc398

DELAWARE

Dover 3 pc back: “United for Victory” w/colorful flags

Sc615

Milford UY9 unsevered, both revalued to 1c

Newark 3c PSE revalued to 2c

Smyrna Sc615

FLORIDA

Bonifay Sc773 w/Mary Bishop flag cachet

Daytona 1 auxs: “FORWARDED/From Middletown, Ohio.” And red “Not for Carrier/1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10”

Eau Gallie cover w/2c Wash stamp on 2/22/32 (bicentennial)

Mary Bishop flag cachet w/Sc773

Jacksonville 1 green “shadow” carriage ad on front

Manatee 1d British due tied and aux: “1d/TO PAY” and “T 10/CENTIMES”

on back aux: “SENT TO SHIP/JUL 18 1935/AT QUARANTINE”

Saint Petersburg h/s: “FORWARDED.”

Tampa 8 spectacular green allover ad for Tampa: city history, locomotives, steamers, also some on back

multicolor cc

GEORGIA

Athens 1 aux: “fee claimed. . .” on sdel w/E6

aux: “Address supplied by Direct. S[?]/Central Sta. [?]/CHICAGO, ILL. P.O. 3”

Augusta 2 pc to Scotland w/2c stamp

Augusta 6 Odd shape—much longer than tall

pair Sc486 vertical coil on postcard

flag cc Camp Hancock

Bainbridge 2 WX31

Ball Ground 1c+2c stamps

Columbus 3 perfin: CGCF

Lyons Sc686 1 ½c

Marietta 3 text booster ad for Marietta on back

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Macon 6 multicolor ad for Plantene (pail)

Meigs Sc737

Monroe 2 x 1c Green Wash coil pair

Montezuma Sc614

Newnan to Holland, multiple forwarding and aux markings

Rome 2 perfin: “SO/Ry.” (Southern RR)

Royston 1c green and 2c red Wash stamps

Savannah 1 on U350-2 5c Columbian pse to Rouen France; Le Havre cancel

Savannah 2 illus cc for DeSoto Hotel

Savannah 3 1c drop rate envelope

Savannah 7 Sc328

Thomaston Minn J red border

Union City 3c pse revalued to 2c

Warrenton Sc732

IDAHO

Ashton Sc732

Boise 1 1c red Fran + 2 x 2c red Wash to Switzerland forw to Germany w/Swiss postage due and T25 marking; busy cover

Buhl airmail: 1926 2c red pse + Sc565 (14c Indian); large mss “Air Mail”

Coeur d’Alene registered: on #10 Interior penalty envelope w/8c Sc306 type added, also aux: pur “Registered.”; pointing finger “RETURN TO WRITER” mss “Address unknown” and Delta Idaho doane

Cottonwood Sc732

Driggs Sc732

Moscow 2 odd purple circ cc h/s w/skull

Mullan Sc732

Payette 2 opened, sealed by OX11, aux: pointing hand: “Returned to Writer./ Unclaimed from Walla Walla, Wash.”

aux: box w/finger “Returned to Writer” pointing to “REASON FOR NON-DELIVERY CHECKED” “unknown” checked

Pocatello C2 intended for 1st NY-Chic airmail

on registered package receipt

Wendell on business reply envelope

ILLINOIS

Arthur ½ c and 1 ½ c stamps

Aurora 3 wordy cc

Batavia 2 5c pse to Uruguay

Belvidere 1 aux: “Forwarded from Belvidere, Ill.”

Benld 2c and 1c stamp

Blandinsville Ford illus cc w/Sc729

Bloomington 2 sdel: bicycle rider and faint aux: red [illegible]

Bloomington 3 color ad: Red Tag Trees

Auxs: “return to writer” “not found” “to avoid delay…”

Blue Mound Sc732

Bushnell 2 1c drop rate

Cairo 3 oddly lowered 2c pse indicia

Centralia 4 on YMCA cover from AEF

Champaign 2 aux: “To avoid delay in delivery have your mail/addressed to Stret and No., P.O. Box/or General Delivery” and “1-2-3-4-5-/6-7-8-9-10-“ with 2 and 3 marked out

Chicago Heights 2 illus cc for Kennicott Water Softener Co.

Chicago Heights 5 1 c drop rate

Decatur 6 sdel: E6 type w/purp aux: “FEE CLAIMED AT BLOMMINGTON, ILLINOIS.”

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Dwight 1 1c drop rate

Earlville on cover w/o postage and 2 3c dues

Edwardsville U468 Type 4 revalued to 2c

Elmhurst aux: “Fee Claimed. . .” w/E15

Eureka 1 ½ c cover

Galesburg 1 illus cc

Galesburg 3 Sc286

Greenfield Sc732

Harvard Mortician cc to Frank Moses Janesville

illus cc

Highland Park 5c blue Wash to Finland

Hoopeston aux: “Missent to Hoopeston, Ill.” And crossed out: “No such Post Office in State Named.”

Jacksonville 1 Sc210

Jacksonville 2 aux: “MISSENT.”

Jacksonville 3 Sc372

Joliet 3 blue illus American Express cc (check)

Joliet 4 Am Banknote Co pro-women’s suffrage label

Kewanee 1 to Belgium

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Lake Bluff U526

Lockport Sc643

Macon Sc702 to Brazil

Manteno Sc732

Marissa Sc729

Sc773

Maywood 2 x 2c red wash + 1c green Wash to Hong Kong w/ backstamp

Metropolis interesting cc for supt of schools

Monmouth 1 Earlville RFD mkg; also blue illus ad for Milne Mfg Co

Monticello 3 color ad for Pepsin Syrup Co

Mooseheart 2 on pc for “Mooseheart the School that Trains for Life”

Mount Carmel Sc370

Mundelein Sc729

Sc729

Natl Stock Yds 1 bicolor ad Campbell and Reid Stables (horses and shoe) BobB gift

Natl Stock Yds 3 perfin: S & Co (Swift and Company)

Nauvoo Sc726

No Crystal Lake Sc615

Odell 1 ½ c pse

Oglesby Sc718

Paris blue ad for BluJ Brooms—strange long flag

Paxton 2 Sc627 w/pnc 18542

Pekin 1 2c red pse to Basel, Switzerland w/ 30c Swiss due tied

Pontiac 1 fancy cc for the Phoenix

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Ravinia U526

Rock Island 5 fruit basket ad

2c red Wash on ppc to Lima Peru

Rockford E R Sta aux: “Received in Bad Condition at Detroit, Mich.”

Savanna U349

Spring Valley 1 3c pse revalued to 2c w/embossed cc: “ROY CURRAN/SPRING VALLEY, ILL.”

Sycamore 4 Sc618

Tinley Park Mary Bishop flag cachet w/Sc773

Washburn Sc705 and U525

Washington Sc727

Winnetka 1 aux: “NO SUCH NO.___P3812”

Extremely small cover

Zion City 2 1c green and 2c red Wash stamps

Zion non-postal h/s: “Actuary Dept.”

CHICAGO

Letters:

1 on preprinted Grant reply card to Canada

2 sdel: w/E4 type

3 illus cc: H Wolf & Co (wolf)

graphic cc: US Brewing Co

aux: hand “Return to Writer” and “unclaimed.”

U330 + Sc270 (5c bn Grant)to Germany w/color label on back

graphic cc: Natl Assn of Merchant and Travelers (NAMT logo)

4 illus cc: Great Northern Hotel (city scene)

graphic cc: National Association of Merchants and Travelers

7 illus cc: Compound Door Co (wood device?)

illus cc: Eagle Sausage Works (eagle and shield)

Sc286 and aux: pur “Have all your Mail Addressed./To ST. ANTHONY HILL STATION!”

8 U234 + O49 (untied)

10 ad: Guillott Metallic Gasket Co (cross-section of engine)

11 to Stockholm Sweden w/5c brown Grant

gpc w/2c red Wash to Moravia

gpc + 1c blue Fran to Germany

12 fancy cc: Thornton Broker (WOOL in light blue)

13 illus cc: Charles Munson Belting (eagle and globe)

14 graphic cc: Myrtle Council (crown and design) on 1c stamp

20 illus cc: John J McGrath Signs (design)

blue graphic cc: Chicago Portland Cement (circle design)

22 illus cc: M. Considine & Son Commission Merchants

28 5c pse + 5c blue Grant to Copenhagen Denmark

4c pse (U250?) and 1c blue Fr to Baden-Baden [Germany]

illus cc: Gerstenberg & Kroeschell (wheat bundle)

35 illus ad allover: red/white blue Free Carnival and Street Fair, Fort Wayne, Indiana (fort, back ad)

36 illus cc: Magie Bros Rock Brand Oil (rock)

38 1c Jeff gpc to Mexico

41 illus cc: Wheeler & Thomas Roofing Co (globe)

42 illus cc: E.G.Harz & Co (coal car)

43 fancy cc: red logo for Falcon Iron & Nail

44 bright pink envelope: G.M. Richardson Tinware

55 graphic cc: US Brewing Co

57 ad: Edwin Hunt’s Sons Hardware (lawnmower-front and back)

59 illus cc: Emery (hotel and grounds) on 2c Columbian pse

1c bl Fr and 4c brn Lincoln to Dubrovnik Dalmatia Austria

Numbers:

2 1c pse drop rate

3 1c blue Fr stamp

5c brown Grant to Sweden

4 illus ad: Passow & Sons Saloon Fixtures (factory/office)

UX11 cut very small

11 penalty env: P.O.Dept Chicago P.O.

5x1c green Fran to New Zealand

sdel: w/E5 type on 2c grn pse

16 pink env: Richardson Tinware

17 penalty env: Chicago PO Dept

22 illus cc: train with “after five days switch back to”

25 illus cc: H. Channon “Manila/Iron/Steel/Sisal” (rope?)

27 sdel: w/E4 type

28 Grant message card w/unsevered reply card

30 illus cc: Dept of Public Works (Chicago city seal)

36 sdel: w/E4 type and graphic cc: Stamsen & Blome Cement

37 aux: “MOVED LEFT NO ADD. D. 580”

42 illus cc: Alwart Bros. Coal & Wood (storefront)

graphic cc: Armstrong Cork (Circle A logo)

44 SpAm revenue (2c battleship) used for postage

ad: red cc: “Weekly Market Report/Hops and Malt” and ad on back

51 gold cc: Sherwin-Williams Co.

53 illus cc: W.M. Kimball Co. Pianos and Organs (medal)

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55 color: lt blu cv w/red cc and purple address correction

56 illus cc: Charles Munson Belting (eagle and map of US)

58 graphic cc: Gates Iron Works w/matching letterhead

red and blue CYC flag corner card

66 2c stamp on patriotic card to Prague-Weinberge

68 graphic cc: Natl Assn of Merchant and Travelers (NAMT logo)

69 illus cc: Garden City Sand (bricks w/names)

71 ad: allover back Wolff&Nollau factory photo

72 graphic cc: Strassheim (Hay & Grain in block orange letters)

75 graphic cc: Liquid Carbonic Acid Mfg Co (logo)

79 graphic cc: Armstrong Cork (Circle A logo)

graphic cc: Winthrop Harbor and Dock Co (red script)

82 illus cc: Dept of Steam Boiler Inspection (Chicago city seal)

83 illus cc: N.W. Stove Repair (factory)

85 graphic cc: Illinois Central RR (logo)

2 x Sc285

86 ad: red “little wonder” machinery

87 graphic cc: Liquid Carbonic Acid Mfg Co (logo)

Sc286

penalty env: MOB Chicago PO Substation 17

2 x Sc285

91 illus cc: Magie Brothers Rock Brand Oils (rock, tree)

color cc: Ernecke & Salmstein (red and black Star of David)

illus cc: Horseradish Jack Undeground (man and mules)

93 2 color cc: J J Ryan & Co Brass Founders and Finishers (red and black—basically an elaborate printed cc but word ad over much of front)

94 illus cc: Magie Brothers Rock Brand Oils (rock, tree)

95 color cc: red “Weekly Market Report/Hops and Malt”

illus cc: C.H.Hanson Engravers (bust and seal)

97 color cc: black Columbia Wall Paper w/ red “A. Porasnik”

illus cc: H.L.Brown& Son (livestock)

World Railway Publishing: includes interesting contents in page protector

98 red/blue elaborate graphic cc: Foster-Munger Co., Sash, Doors, Blinds

99 illus cc: Pearson-Taft Land Co (mobius strip)

100 graphic cc: Illinois Central RR (logo)

Rec’d Gen Dely on pc from Germany w/3 5mark green eagle stamps

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Ovates:

11 illus cc: Spalding & Merrick (building)

5c blue Grant to Brussels Belgium

graphic cc: Stamsen & Blome Cement (logo)

blank illus cc: Magie Brothers Rock Brand Oils (rock, tree)

19 illus cc: train with “after five days switch back to”

illus cc: Lyon Bros. (wolf)

A (F-dial) no stamp on cover

graphic cc: Wolff&Nollau

Stations:

A (E1) illus cc: N.J.Druecker (barrels and bales)

(F1) graphic cc: North Chicago Roofing

(B38-1) illus cc: Alwart Bros. Coal & Wood (storefront)

graphic cc: Stern Clothing (star)

illus cc: Crescent Roofing Co. (machine w/wheels and steamstack)

(E14-2) 5c brown Grant to Sweden

(A38-LP) yellow cover w/ graphic cc A.V.Smith & Bro.

B (B38) graphic cc: Strassheim (Hay & Grain in block orange letters)

(B38-LVS) Sc370 and aux: “No Such No, ___s 1406”

C (E13-1) 12/24/94 (3rd day) w/1c blue Fran +2c red Wash + 2c green pse to Germany(severely reduced at left)

ad: Olson & Comstock (piano stool)

(E13-2) 2x2c red Wash + 1c blu Fran to Halifax, Nova Scotia

(F13-2) mourning cover

F (B38-1) ad cover: blue Chas. M. Merker Sign Works

SYS (B38dd) illus cc: Ellsworth & McNair (horsehead)

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22nd illus cc: blue Illinois Metal Ceiling (ceiling)

M (B38) Sc399 on cover to Holstebro Denmark

Engle (B38) graphic cc: Benson & Rixon (block)

WX5 tied

O (B38) illus cc: on ovs “Catholic Order of Foresters” (cross logo)

penalty env: MOB Chicago PO Englewood Station

S (B38 SCS 01-09) 5c blue Grant to London England

U (B38-1) illus cc: CB&Q “Burlington Route” on “RR business” penlty w/stamp

(Fblk) illus cc: Magie Brothers Rock Brand Oils (rock, tree)

Hyde (B38) 5c pse to Sodertdje Sweden

sdel w/E6 type and mss “OK” where other stamp fell off; aux “Fee claimed at office of first address”

N Hal (B38) 2 copies of graphic cc: Nollau & Wolff

Pilsen no stamp w/ 2c due placed over flag

5c blue Grant to Dresden Germany

Ravenswood 2x1c imperf grn Fr line pair

2x1c imperf grn Fr line pair Sc383

INDIANA

Alexandria 3 window envelope

Attica 4 h/s cc

Bicknell 1c red Wash and 2c green Franklin

Berne 1 illus cc

Bryant 1c green Fr and 2c pse

Corydon window envelope (1923)

Crandall Sc732

Elkhart 2 illus ad for Stimpson Computing Scale

Evansville 1 illus ad for Southern Stove Works

Farmland Sc732 and bagpipe sticker

Gosport Sc775 and leap day cachet

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Jeffersonville 2 aux: h/s special delivery and E6

Madison 5 Sc537

Marion 2 1 color ad: Marion Iron & Brass Bed Co (Sanitaire banner)

Milltown 1c drop rate

Mishawaka orange and black cc

Muncie 3 ad for the Muncie Jobbing & Mfg Co; 1c drop rate

Muncie 4 ad for the Enterprise Washer Co.

New Albany 3 ad: Girard Cigars/Indiana Candy Co, (cigar)

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Notre Dame aux: “Fee claimed at Syracuse, N.Y.; UND cc; E12

UND cc with report card

Peru 1 stamp with printed selvage

Peru 3 1 c drop rate

Portland 3 illus cc “Hull Brothers Evangelistic Company”

Richmond 3 illus cc

Rockport Sc799

Sc852

Rosedale Sc732

Rushville 3 sdel w/E12 and graphic cc (eyeglasses)

South Bend 6 orange cc for Studebaker Bros Mfg Co

Illus cc for Birdsell Manuf Co [illus of factory]

Vincennes 1 Cuba stamp tied

Warsaw “21” as yeardate

Wabash 2 WX19 not tied

IOWA

Alden 2 Sc729

Ames 2 photo cc for ponies

Anamosa illus cc of The Brown Hotel; aux: Estherville Gen Del mkg

Atlantic aux: Atlantic, Iowa registered w/ Sc 338 (poor)

Bellevue green illus cc; Sc643

Boone 1 illus cc for Black Label Brand Gloves and Mittens; Sc372

Burlington 1 1c blue Fran on mourning cover to Germany

Carroll 2 aux: multiple “Name Not in Dir” Address Supplied”

Cedar Falls 1 illus cc for Fancy Calendar Pads

Cedar Rapids 1 illus cc for Nabisco

1c drop rate

Cedar Rapids 2 illus cc for King’s Crown Plaster

Cherokee on ppc: “Sometimes the girls kiss each other…”

Sc525 two shades on same cover

Davenport 1 illus cc for Ferd. Haak Cigar Manufacturer

Blue Illus cc/ad: Neal’s Carriage Paints (paint can)

Davenport 2 illus cc Aug. Steffen Dry Goods

Orange cc “Market Letter”; 1c drop rate

Dubuque 2 ad red Star of David “Dubuque Star Brewing Co.”

graphic cc: Dubuque Fire & Marine Ins Co

Earlville 1c green Fran and 2c pse Mt Vernon

Gladbrook 1c Martha W reply card

Grinnell Q1

Iowa City 2 sent to Am Mily Red Cross Hosp No 1, APO 702 France w/postmark of 12/4/18; aux “ADDRESSEE RETURNED TO U.S.A.” ms “Gen Hosp 3 Colonis N.J.”; aux “addressee transferred to [Grand Central Palace N.Y.]/ From: A.E.F./Central Directory Division,/ Pier No. 86, N.R., N.Y. C./Date [5/9/19]”; aux: “NOT NOW AT BASE HOSP” and “Not At/Hospital No. 3/Branch/Rahway, N.J.” and Rahway, NJ Hospital No. 3 CDS 5/29/19; aux: finger “RETURNED/TO/WRITER/UNCLAIMED”

Iowa Falls 2 aux: pur “Missent to Des Moines, Iowa.”

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Keokuk 5 illus cc: K-B Co Gate City

LeMars 2 stamp edge turned back and gum cancelled

Maquoketa 3 Sc627

Marshalltown 1 large illus ad for Marshall Oil Co, shows C&NW and Iowa Central RR tracks

Marshalltown 2 1c drop rate

Mount Pleasant 2 Sc537

Nashua Sc732

Ottumwa 2 albino: mss “OK PM OTTUMWA IA”

Red Oak 3 illus (photo?) cc for McGreer Bros Seed Farms (corn ears)

3c pse revalued to 2c (unusual revaluation)

Reinbeck 1 ½ c rate

Shenandoah 1 multicolor ad: Henry Field Seedsman (yellow env w/red and green)

Shenandoah 2 Q1 130929

Toledo ad pc for Goodrich Tires w/train

Sc838 2nd day

Sc838 plate block 2nd day

Wapello graphic cc for The Republican

Waterloo 1 photo cc w/red: Waterloo Cement Machinery Co (small cement mixer)

KANSAS

Abilene 3 pc to sailor on “USS Chester, Navy Yards, Boston”

Bucklin 1 ½ c rate

Cawker City Kans ovp

Claflin Sc660 (2c Kans ovpt) (2 examples)

Council Grove Kans ovp (Sc660)

Dighton 1c green Fran and 2c red Wash; Mary Bishop flag cachet

Fort Scott 1 ppc of Fort Scott post office

Garden City soldiers mail (safe arrival) pc (Jewish Welfare Board, US Army and Navy) w/flag and mss: “Found enclosed in other mail at Garden City, Kan.”

Geneseo 1 ½ c rate

Glasco 1 ½ c rate

Great Bend 2c + 1c stamps to captain in AEF, redorected and with several auxs: “11 JANV 1919 NO RECORD APO 789[?]” “NO RECORD__C Surgeon” “NOT AT CAMP HOSP. 40/LIVERPOOL”

Greensburg Sc660 (2c Kans ovpt)

Holton 2 x Sc548

Sc681

Hutchinson 3 on Am Express tag w/grommet

1c green Wash and 2c red Wash

Hutchinson slogan aux: Junction City KS Gen Del h/s

Irving Sc772

KC B38 Armour Sta 5c pse to Germany

KC SYS 1 aux: missent [h/s] to McKinley Me [mss]

KC SYS 2 1c drop rate

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Lawrence 2 on pc w/2c stamp to Barranquilla, Colombia (rec has “ENERO” as month)

Lawrence 3 aux: red “Missent to Stock Yards Sta.,/Kansas City, Kans.”

Leavenworth 1 illus cc for Kelley’s Brooms [factory]

Manhattan 2 3c purple Wash imperforate? (1918) 483,484,535

Marion 2 Kans ovp on odd foldable turnable envelope

Marquette Sc732

Sc658 (1c KS ovpt)

Marysville on reward card for stolen Ford

Moran Sc732

Newton 2 on P.O. Dept envelope w/2 1c Official mail postal savings stamps (O121)

Olathe 1 glassine envelope for pc (pc still enclosed)

Osborne as recd cancelling 200 Reis Brazil stamp

Oxford Sc737

Oswego 1 1c drop rate

Ottawa 1 Sc294

Quinter 1 ½ c rate

Russell Kans ovp

Saint Francis Kans ovp

Saint Marys Airport Dedication and Sc663

Sc732

KENTUCKY

Ashland 1 aux: “address supplied . . .”

Benton Mary Bishop flag cachet

Berea C14 aux: “advise correspondents or publishers of your… address”

Bowling Green 1 graphic cc

Bowling Green 2 illus cc

Clay Sc774

Crab Orchard Sc732

Glasgow illus cc

Henderson 3 graphic cc

Lexington 1 5c blue Lincoln to England, forward mkg “c/o White Star Line/Agent/Naples” and handstamp red “HANDED TO PASSENGER”

Louisv Sta E 1 sdel w/ Sc416

Louisv Sta E 2 Sc230 and Sc294

Marion color ad: Goodrich (used upside-down)

Sc494

Mayfield 1 Sc328

Mayfield 3 1c drop rate

Mayfield 4 1c drop rate and illus cc/ad: Sample Offer/Homespun Tobacco (man with tobacco machinery and “Postmaster – If Undelivered in 12 Days, Please Hand to a User of Tobacco”

Mount Sterling 2 R196 (1c documentary used as postage)

Owensboro 1 1c drop rate

Paducah 5 red graphic cc Jas. Soler Fine Portrait and Frames

Paris photo cc of horse

Russellville Sc615

Uniontown 3c purple Mt Vernon pse

Winchester 1 1c circular rate

LOUISIANA

Bogalusa sdel w/E6

Cottonport Mary Bishop flag cachet w/tied WX76 1935

Lake Charles 3 Calcasieu-Louisiana Fair Assn, 2nd Annual Fair 1911 cachet

Saint Joseph Sc736

Shreveport 2 illus cc

Shreveport 4 graphic cc

Winnfield 1 blue cc Louisiana state seal

Winnfield 2 3c pse revalued to 2c

MAINE

Auburn 1 Q1 pays 1c drop rate

Bangor 1 ppc of Bangor post office

red h/s: “UNKNOWN. Name of addressee does not appear in city

directory.”

Bangor 2 yellow w/red fancy cc “The Great Lithgow Show”

Bar Harbor 1 on 1c pc to France

Bath 1 from Gibraltar w/GibraltarSC40 or 50 and aux: “Missent and Forwarded from Lawrence, Mass.”

aux: red “ORIGINALLY HELD FOR POSTAGE/BUT NOW FORWARDED ON RECEIPT/FROM YOU OF AMOUNT DUE/(N.Y.-I.D.)” AND “sent detention notice”

Brunswick raised embossed cc

Dexter auxs: finger “rtw” and “unclaimed”

East Boothbay Sc733

Eastport 1 color graphic cc: Eastern Steamship Corporation (wheel and flag)

Gardiner multicolor ad: Dutch Boy White Lead (orange/brown can)

Lewiston 4 Sc397

Portland 2 Q1

Q1

Q1

Presque Isle 2 illus cc for Noyes and Nutter Mfg. Co.

Rumford Falls to Denmark

Rumford 2 illus cc: Mount Zircon Spring Water (mountain and stream)

Saco Red ad: Saco Manufacturing (sample architectural column)

1c pse drop rate

South West Harbor 1c green Franklin pse and 2c red Wash stamp

Waterville 8 2c red pse and 1c green stamp (both Wash)

Wiscasset cachet: National Post Office Day 7/26/1932 w/1c Wash bic + 2 1c

MARYLAND

Baltimore 7 1c circular rate; elaborate cc for Southern Fancier

Cumberland 1 1c drop rate

pc w/Sc294

Cumberland Sta A Sc705 and Sc707

NAMW; C23; first flight/NAMW cachet

Edgewood does not tie stamp; no further mark

Hagerstown 1 aux: “To avoid delay in delivery have/mail addressed to Street and No., P./O. Box, General Delivery, or R.F.D./No.________________”

Magnolia sdel aux: “fee claimed by office of first address,” E6 type

sdel aux: “fee claimed by office of first address,” E6 type

Pocomoke City 1 Sc627

MASSACHUSETTS

Adams RE3 (1c cordials and wines revenue) used as postage; auxs crossed out: “Returned for Postage” and “Returned for Better Address”

Agawam airport ded 5/30/30 x 2: 1 w/C11, 1 w/5c TR

C11 w/cachet: 75th anniv Agawam 8/12/30

C11 w/cachet: US Army Air Maneuvers, 5/24/31

Andover 2 2xQ1 on cover

Andover 3 2c red pse + 1c gn Wash to Mexico City

5c pse to Brazil

5c pse to Brazil

Arlington 1 5c blue Wash to “Mrs Edith Whittemore/Steamship Chicago/Havre/France/Care/Raymond Whitcomb/Tours” (1883-1962)

Arlington Heights Sc329; aux: “Rec’d Unsealed NPSta Boston” w/ 2 OX18

Ashfield 2c red Wash pse and 1c green Franklin stamp

Athol 1 aux purple: “FORWARDED FROM/NORTHFIELD, MASS./Please furnish to the/sender of this mail/YOUR CORRECT ADDRESS”

Attleboro 2 Sc372 on front of pc, “over” where stamp should be

Beverly 2 Sc304 to Japan

Pc to Bangalore India

Boulevard from France w/10c French stamp

Brockton 4 illus cc of Burt & Packard shoe

Brockton 5 on gpc to Mexico (no additional postage)

Brockton 9 as rect on sold mail from AEF, censor, aux: “thru APO 754”

Brockton 13 ad for WL Douglas Shoes

ad for Burt & Packard shoe

Brookfield on bright orange cover

Brookline Schermack

1c green Jeff card w/10 centime due marking and Swiss due affixed

Cambridge 1 5c blue Lincoln to London forwarded to Germany

2 x 5c blue Wash to Paris forwarded to Holland

5c blue pse to Buenos Aires Argentina

1c green + 2 x 2c red Wash to Bangkok, Siam

1c blue McKinley w/1c green Fran to Belgium

aux: “Originally held for postage and now/forwarded on receipt of amount due.”

Cambridge 2 on 5c pse to Buenos Aires, Argentina

on 5c pse to Switzerland w/military censor markings

Cambridge A 2 old stationery (U234?) to Ireland

Sc370 on pc to Sweden

ad: Walter W. Field & Son (hoisting engine)

Cambridge B 1 1c stamp on card to Kii, Japan w/”Printed Matter/Imprinte” aux and Japanese block marking

Canton aux: “BACK THE BOYS IN THE TRENCHES/BUY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND/INQUIRE AT ANY BANK OR POST OFFICE”

Chelsea aux: “RECEIVING SHIP AT BOSTON”

Concord Q2

Sc618 FDC uncacheted

Sc617 + Sc618 + Sc619

Danvers seems like odd stationery – look into

5c blue Lincoln to Costa Rica

East Walpole small orange ad for Neponset Bird Products

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Fall River 3 (e) 5c Licoln on cover to England (rough condition)

Fall River 8 Q1

Fall River 9 cancelled on BaBa’s birthday: 6/1/16

Fall River 11 1c M Wash reply card

Fitchburg 2 from Switzerland w/10 Swiss stamp

Fitchburg 3 Sc324

Foxboro 1c drop rate pse

Framingham 2 1c rppc w/perfin “EEI” (Edison Electric Illuminating Co.”

1c circular with large ad on left: “The Contents/of this envelope are so important/that we are using 1c postage;/this savings enables us to send/this letter to a great many more/people than if we used 2c post-/age. After you have read the/enclosed, we hope you will help/us by passing it on to others/who will be interested./THE SENDERS”

Franklin 2 Sc372 on pc to Germany

Gloucester 1 Sc297 to London England forwarded to Canterbury

1c grn Fr + 2c red Wash + 2c red Wash pse to Germany

1c drop rate

Ad: Slade Gorton Fish Foods

Gloucester 2 2c red Wash on ppc to Gohtenborg, Sweden

2c stamp to Sweden

ad: Harvey C. Smith Fish Dealer

Elaborate three-part Christmas card

Gloucester 4 illus ad: red “Silent Policeman” for traffic control

Gloucester 5 color large cc: “Consumer’s Fish Co.” on 1c circ cover

Gardner 2 1c drop rate pse

Greenfield 1 bicolor fancy cc: F.H. Brown & Co.

Sc324 on cover to Ontario Canada

Hydepark 1 1c drop rate pse

Aux: “Please have your Mail Addressed/ to Lawrence, Mass.”

Ipswich Sc618

Lawrence 1 allover flag SpAm war: 1c gn Fran and 2c red Wash

allover flag SpAm war: 2c red Wash

mourning cover

Lawrence 4 aux: “Missent to Stock Yards Sta./Kansas City, Kans.”

Lawrence 7 aux: “Unmailable. Returned to Writer.” To Germany 19181121

Leominster 1c stamp with ms “Printed Matter” to Malacca, S[traits] Settlements

Lexington Sc399 to England forwarded to France w/ stamp-like return add label

5c pse from Museum of Comparative Zoology to Boulder, CO

FDC: 2 x 617 4/4/25

FDC: 618 4/4/25

FDC: 617 + 618 + 619 4/4/25 w/ad on back (Civil War tie-in)

FDC: 617 + 618

airmail: 2c red Wash and C7 to California

Lowell 1 illus cc of G Wash for Washington Tavern

2c green pse + Sc232 to Bournemouth, England

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Lowell 4 orange graphic cc

Lowell 6 2x Sc294 on cover

Lynn 1 1c blue Fran stamp and U348 1c Columbian pse

Lynn 3 illus cc (pail) for Brockway-Smith Corp.

Lynn 5 UPU card to Mexico

Lynn 6 Sc295

Sc295 w/ illus cc: Lynn Blacking (dragon)

Lynn East Lynn red graphic cc: Herrick Shoe in red

Lynn West Lynn 1 on pc w/2c stamp to “Papeete Tahiti Oceanie”

Malden 4 5c blue Wash to Italy to Spain back to Malden

Manchester 2 no stamp on pc

Mansfield 2 Sc550 to Reunion Island

Marblehead 1 Sc328

Marion ½ Nathan Hale and 1 ½ pse

Sc784

Medford 2 appears as origin but is recd on cover from India w/2 anna and ½ anna

Melrose Highlands 2 x Sc548

Methuen 3 graphic cc for Gay’s Laundry

Milford 1 Sc372

Milford 3 1c grn Wash stamp and 2c red Wash pse

Millville Sc772

Milton 1 1 grn wash and 2c red Wash stamp

Milton 2 black illus ad on blue env: Walter, Baker & Co (chocolate)

Natick from Canada w/ 1c stamp; aux: purple “CARRIER 1.2.3.4.5.6” with 1, 2, and 5 marked out

New Bedford 2 ad N.P.Hayes cutlery w/ Sc286

Sc286

New Bedford 3 Sc281 to London England forwarded to Rome Italy

New Bedford 7 mourning cover

New Bedford 8 mourning cover

New Bedford 9 4c brown Lincoln on normal cover

Ppc w/aux: “Held for Postage,/May 25 1906” and additional 1c green Franklin affixed because one letter written into address side

2c red Wash pse + 2c red wash + 2 x 3c pur Jackson to Egypt

New Bedford 11 fancy cc The Parker House

allover ad: Improved Order of Red Men (Indians)

Newburyport 1 small cover w/Sc 281 to “Mrs. Edmund P. Graves Buenos Ayres” Argentina

larger cover same stamp same addressee

Newburyport 2 2+2+1 stamps to Buenos Aires, Argentina

Newton sdel: 2c pse + 5 x 2c red Wash and “Special Delivery” aux

Newton Ctr NewtSt 2c stamp on 1906 postcard overpaid

Newtonville 1 1c drop rate

Newton Upper Falls 1c M Wash reply card

North Abington 2 pc w/2c red Wash to Dannike Sweden w/Dannike h/s

North Adams 1 on penalty envelope: Money Order Business (MOB)

Sc548; cc for Carriages and Sleighs (1907)

Northampton 2 U348 (Col Expo) + Sc294

E5 on sdel cover

h/s Mailed on Mt Holyoke; mentions Halley’s Comet

Northampton 5 multicolor ad for Prophylactic Toothbrush

Northampton 6 Q1

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North Grafton Sc773

Palmer illus address side of pc

Pittsfield 6 Sc343 imperforate on postcard

Pittsfield 8 illus cc for The Kenney

Plainville 1c M Wash reply card

Provincetown 2 Sc397

Quincy 1 2c stamp on pc to Riga, Russia

photo cc w/ 3 digit telephone number

2c pse + 3c purp Wash to Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Rockport 1 aux: “MISSENT TO GRANTSBURG, WIS.” And Grantsburg cds

Sc614

Salem 3 2c pse+1c(Sc300)+4c(Sc303)+8c(Sc306) to Raudnitz, Austria

Salem 5 2+1+2 stamps to England, label pasted over forwarding it to “Poste Restante, Stockholm” this crossed out and redirected to Moscow, Russia. b/s stamped London, Stockholm, and Moscow. Also indistinct ship cancel.

Salem 9 very small envelope

2c pse + 3c pur Wash to Switzerland w/censor tape “CONTRÔLE POSTAL MILITAIRE”

Salem 10 1c drop rate

Somerville Forwarded cover:Capt. Pond, US Navy to USNavy Yard Bremerton to 12th Naval District San Francisco

green illus cc: American Tube Works (eagle/shield)

illus cc City Treasurer

South Braintree 1c Sheridan reply card (UY4)

South Framingham2 multicolor illus cc: Dennis Manuf Co (mail tag); Shermack stamp

Springfield 13 2 x Q1

Q1

Q2 window env, graphic cc: New Eng T&T (bell)

Springfield 14 on penalty envelope w/cc of War Dept, Springfield Armory

w/bright multicolor “Springfield” label

Springfield 15 fancy cc for Hotel Gratia

Springfield 17 underpaid: 2c cover 11/14/1918 no due markings

Springfield 21 Sc615 w/ plate #15769

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Taunton 1 1c drop rate

Cc: A.J. Barker

Taunton 5 Sc398 on pc

Waban 1 ½ c pse

Wakefield 1 WX? (1911) tied

Waltham 2 Sc370 w/aux: “UNKNOWN”; “[illegible]ed off and not claimed.”; hand “RETURNED/TO/WRITER”

Watertown Sdel w/ 2c red pse and Sc307 aux fee claimed by po of 1st ad

aux: circ def in address sup at Cleveland OH

Webster 2 2c red Wash pc to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ms “Via Vancouver”

Wellesley sdel w/ 2c pse plus 5 x 2c red Wash stamps Kal-Well-Kal

Wellesly Hills WH Q1

Westboro 1c drop rate

Westfield 2 graphic cc Westfield Mfg makers of Pope Motorcycles

West Somerville aux: “MISSENT TO/NORTH WILMINGTON, MASS.”

Whitman 2 2c gpc revalued to 1c

Winchester 1 2 x Sc294

5c Lincoln to “Officer SS Mississippi Bremerhaven, Germany” then forwarded to Brooklyn

Winchester 2 UY4 Sheridan reply card

Q1

Winter Hill Sc398

Woburn deep red small cover

Wollaston 1 3c stamp on pc

Worcester 3 1c drop rate

Worcester 7 patriotic: large US flag (rwb) in upper left corner

ad: black Coates Clipper Manufg Co

Worcester 8 Sc286

Worcester 12 illus cc Worcester Lodge No. 56 AOUW

Worcester 13 color/graphic cc Hundum – Crystolon Grinding Wheels

BOSTON

B14? Sdel: 2 x Sc330 (5c Pocahontas) and 2x1c green Franklin

Involute 5 1/25/97 cover addressed to “McKinley Esq/President Elect/Canton/Ohio”

Involute 7 2 x 2c stamps

Involute 8 illus cc: Geo. C. Goodwin (bottle and shield)

Slogan BN2LL 1 graphic cc Natl Lead Co (paint) and red logo

Slogan BN2LL 9 perfin: NS/BK?

Slogan FW 2 graphic cc Natl Lead Co (paint) and red logo

Slogan FW 3 blue graphic cc for NEng T&T on window env, 3c coil Sc493?

Slogan FW 6 1c gn Fran pse + 2 1c blue Fran; aux: “advise correspondents or publishers of yout correct address” and “not in carriers delivery district No. 10”

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ovates:

1 blue illus cc Barry, Beale & Co Stationers

Sc231

5 Sc207 type: 3c banknote

7 5c Lincoln to Ireland

8 blue illus cc Suffolk Silk Co

10 blue illus cc (star) and back

15 ad: Howard W. Spurr Coffee (red rt)

as rec on Newfoundland UPU card

16 allover shadow ad: Pettingill&Co Newspaper Advertising Agency

reg ret recpt

19 orange fancy cc CocaCola and 2 x Sc285

20 Sc280 4c brown Lincoln on cover

22 2c pse + Sc302 to Vienna Austria

Spirit of ’76 cachet and Langford backstamp

On UPU card to Naples, Italy

23 4c brown Wash domestic (double-weight?)

25 stamped cc: large purple oval Erie RR, 2x2c postage

sdel w/stamp, Boston to Pembroke NH forwarded to Springfield MA

27 aux: “Please have you mail directed to street and number and avoid delay”; opened and resealed by incorrect deliveree

29 1c drop rate

fancy cc Carter Rice & Co Paper

31 1c drop rate and 2 x Sc285 to cover wrong address and forwarded at 1st class rate?

Illus cc: Otto J. Piehler furrier (arctic, polar bear)

32 1c drop rate

on penalty envelope: “Treasury Department/Office of Comptroller of the Currency”

35 1c blue Fran pse and 1c blue Fran stamp (Sc246)

37 allover back ad: Patent Elastic Rubber Tips (7 pictured)

39 illus cc: Johnson & Co (bldg)

illus cc: Samuel Ward Co (bldg)

40 graphic cc: Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. (shield)

42 as rect on Empire du Japon UPU card w/medicine ad

45 illus cc Loyal protective Assoc (bldg)

as rect on French pc w/Fr stamp

47 as rect on Hungarian gpc w/Hung stamp added

49 Sc286 1/1/1900!

54 illus cc L.C.Chase & Co (horses’ heads)

reg ret recpt

55 Sc295

57 fancy cc Carter Rice & Co Paper

5c brown Grant to France then Geneva then Rolle

on small envelope for tickets

61 multicolor ad Bower & Bartlett Co (tea tins)

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numbers:

2 fancy cc “The Arena”

10 1c drop rate

all over gray ad for “Silver, Burdett & Co”

11 red aux: “NO SUCH NO, . . . .S 1406”

w/Spirit of ’76 and “Langford ad” (a la Brownsville)

12 2c UPU card to Egypt

sdel w/10c yellow Fran perfin E in box

18 illus cc (shovel)

20 3c coil (marked as Sc493)

21 2c stamped pc to Bethesda, N. Wales, G.B.

22 5c blue Wash to England forwarded to Austria

23 pink cover w/illus cc: Smith & Thayer (Winchester heater)

25 2c red Wash on ppc to France forwarded within France

28 4c brn Wash + 1c grn Fran to Paris France

29 3c pur Wash + 2c red Wash pse to Venezuela

30 2 5c blue Wash on cover Boston to Brooklyn

5c Columbian stationery

2c Columbian stationery

31 small graphic cc: New England Telephone (bell) and Schermack

35 1c gn Fr + 2c red Wash + 2c gn Wash pse to England

front only: sdel w/stamp, Boston PO handstamp “received for special delivery w/time dial

40 Q1

41 multicolor flag cc (SpAm war patriotic)

45 Sc287 (4c TM)

47 gold, or & blk round seal on back: “Industrial and Educational Exposition/ Boston Chamber of Commerce/ October 1911”

50 1c (green on buff) pse + Q1 7/16/13

52 1c drop rate, redirected from Boston to “Co. A./Cadet Camp/Hingham, Mass.” and hand-drawn pointing hand

54 illus cc H.B.Stevens Co (sheet music)

graphic cc: blue Stone & Forsyth Paper & Twine

58 illus cc: R.B.McKim (saw blade)

60 aux: Craigville, Mass Doane (3/2)

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letters:

3 illus cc: Evans Friction Cone Co (machinery)

10 return address overprinted with new address

illus cc: Security Mutual Life (bridge)

12. Sc183 (issued 1879) on cover

1c gn Fr pse + 2c red wash stamp

13 illus cc: Lamson & Hubbard mfrs of Silk Stiff- Soft and Straw Hats Knights Templar Regalia and Ladies’ Furs (bldg)

Sc286

14 photo cc: Thompson & Snow (storefront)

allover ad: shadow gray Chas A Smith & Co (4-digit tel no)

15 fancy cc: Boston Ideas and aux: Personal

illus cc: Massachusetts Ploughman (building)

20 illus cc: Miller Tin Ware (boiler) “Boilers a Specialty”

fancy cc: Benj. French & Co.

embossed cc: Hotel Bellevue

illus cc: Geo D Brown & Co (bottle of lamb’s tongues)

21 illus cc: Clark & Co Cut Soles (bundles?)

fancy cc: Columbia Bicycles

26 1c drop rate

fancy cc: Raymond Grocery Co TEAS

aux: boxed “forwarded” prob. From Bristol NH

31 return address overprinted with new address

recancelled 4-10-1987 w/COLOPEX flag cachet

33 circular illus cc: Weston & Bigelow Lumber (oak leaf/acorn)

34 illus cc: Charles J. Jager (wind vane and machinery)

35 to Rome Italy Sc223/255

45 buff illus cc: Leavitt, Sanborn & Co Hay (rake and cradle)

48 illus cc: Security Mutual Life (bridge)

50 1c drop rate

53 1c drop rate

55 aux: forwarded (Westboro to Conway Mass.)

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NDS:

11 with 1c Gibraltar stamp

14 5c stamp to doctor on USS Montana c/o PM NYC

16 green illus cc: American Tube Works (eagle and shield)

20 Q2 and illus cc: Noyes Bros Outfitters

23 1c drop rate

27 on ret reg recpt

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Stations:

A 1 2c gn Wash pse and Sc221/253 to Constantinople Turkey

A 2 5c brn Grant to England then forwarded (to Germany?) w/20 foreign due (TE BETALEN) and “25” and “T” due markings and large “5 F.B.”

A 5 elaborate cc for Legal Firm

A 6 illus/photo cc: Little Folks mag (child)

A 8 Auxs: “RETURNED TO SENDER, CANNOT BE FOUND BY N.Y.P.O.” AND “DO NOT POST AGAIN IN THIS ENVELOPE OR WRAPPER”

Sc286

A 11 2c stamp on pc to Finland

2 x 1c stamp w/label redirecting to Geneva, Switzerland

A 13 1c drop rate

as rec from Ceylon w/6c Ceylon stamp

A 14 1c drop rate

A 17 Q1

B ? Sc326 to Liverpool England

B 11 4c rate

Fancy cc: The Arena

B 12 5c blue Lincoln to Liverpool England

B 13 mourning cover

B 14 illus cc: Chester Kent (Vinol box- made with cod livers)

Auxs: brown finger: “RETURNED TO WRITER/UNCLAIMED/ From/ LYNN, MASS./ P.O.” w/date on sleeve; pur “Present address unknown/ Name not in directory.”

B 18 2c on pc to Florence Italy

2 x 5c Lincoln to London, England

B 20 2c red Wash on pc to Hamilton, Bermuda

5c blue Linc to Italy w/Italian censor tape and markings

B 24 1c drop rate

B 25 5c Lincoln to Switzerland forwarded w/pasted label to London

B 26 auxs: “1616” “L 1620” “4337” “NOT THERE 162”

D 2 Sc223/255 to London England

E 1 on ad card for Linene Reversible Collar Co.

2c green pse + 3c pur Jackson to Bremen, Germany

E 5 aux: “Missent to Haverhill, Mass.”

4c brn Lincoln + 1c grn Fran to England

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Charlestown 1 allover SpAm flag w/Sc286

Dorchester 2 mourning

Dorchester 3 (K) illus cc: Sturtevant Mill Co (mill stones)

East Boston 3 odd orientation. Flag along left side ties stamp

Everett Sta ppc w/o stamp, aux: “DUE [1] CENTS.” to Paris France; French due affixed and forwarded to Luzerne Switzerland and Swiss due affixed; 2 countries’ dues on 1 flag cancel ppc!

Roxbury Sta 2 pur aux: “Originally held for postage, but now for-/warded upon receipt of postage due.” W/1c Franklin over flag cancel

Roxbury Sta 3 Q1

Roxbury Sta 6 as rec from Switzerland w/10 Swiss stamp

as rec from Germany w/10c German stamp

Roxbury Sta 7 UX11

Roxbury Sta 8 to foreign destination (unclear)

dial-less: 1c green Fran pse

Roxb Xg 2 as recd on ppc to Germany w/”unbekannt” label and “retour” box h/s

South Boston 4 5c brn Grant to Ireland w/hand “Return to the Writer” and Dungarvan wax seal and circ Dead Letter Office, F.D

South Boston 5 never a stamp and no due

South Boston 6 blue card w/illus cc: Hersey Mfg. Co (pump?)

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Essex St ? aux: pur “Address all mail to COMPANY/and REGIMENT” to Camp Deven

Essex St 1 illus ad: Rodday & Co (cylindrical object)

2 x 1c stamp on pc to Glasgow Scotland

to South Africa forwarded to London England; sev aux incl triangular date mark and boxed “officially redirected at Cape Town (8)”

Essex St 2 fancy cc: Glidden Hyde Co Tripletoe Hosiery

Essex St 7 Q2 on blue cvr; illus cc O.B. Gilman (cracker tin)

Grove Hall Sta auxs: “Held/For Postage” and “Originally held for postage but now/forwarded upon receipt of postage due”

Hanover St 1 to “Turkey in Asia/Open Mail/via/London & Constantinople”

Same with “E D Co” perfin

Aux: “Sammlung Oesper/No. [330]”, 2c red Wash on pc to Argentina

Hanover St 2 U393 to Germany; aux “Via New York s/s KAIS. WILH. D. Gr.”

no dial: Capitol Creameries Butter allover (and back) ad

Jamaica Plain 1c drop rate

2c red Wash to Oxford MA then 2c red Wash + 1c green Fran added and forwarded to London England

5c blue Wash stamp to Budapest Hungary

aux: “POSTAGE DUE” w/1c J (pc during WWI rate w/1c stamp)

Malden 1 1c drop rate

N Postal 1 2c stamp on pc to Riga Russia [Latvia]

N Postal 2 4c brn Grant (Sc303) + 1c grn Fr (Sc300) to Paris, France

Sc323

N Postal 3 blue and red illus cc (flag)

N Postal 4 Cc: boxed logo of B&M RR

2c red Wash on pppc to Bulgaria

Illus cc: Carleton Clark (chicken, exploding chicken)

Roxbury(3)? dialless on 1c pse

Rox Xing 1 AJ Tower Co (fish)

S Postal 1 2c stamp on ppc to “Saigon Cochin China Asia”

illus cc (carpenter) and red “The Planers of Woods”

multicolor cc: Necco Sweets (gold/ red logo)

S Postal 5 ovs penalty: “OFFICE OF THE/SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY/DIVISION OF LOANS AND CURRENCY/LIBERTY LOAN/-/OFFICIAL BUSINESS/RETURN AFTER 5 DAYS/PARADES COMMITTEE. . .”

S Postal 6 aux: “DEFICIENCY IN ADDRESS/SUPPLIED BY/[?] Boston, Mass.” w/ first line in half-moon shape

Allover shadow ad: green “Hotel Essex” (bldgs)

S Postal 8 2c red pse to Buenos Aires Argentina w/30 centimes due NY marking

W Roxbury 2 2c on pc to “Mr. Wm A. Boltz/c/o U S Consul,/Santos, Brazil,/ S. America./ Mem. Boston Cham. Of Com. Party,/ South American Tour.” W/ American Consulate Santos, Brazil blue box marking

W Roxbury 3 1c drop rate

MICHIGAN

Adrian 1 w/Doane 2/2 from Lambertville, Michigan

Battle Creek 1 illus cc Battle Creek Sanatarium (bldg)

Battle Creek 2 1c drop rate; ad for Union Steam Pump Co (some color)

1c drop rate

Battle Creek 3 1c drop rate

Boyne City 1 1c green Wash on ppc w/plate no 10799

Cadillac 1 short post card

Centerville Sc720

Coldwater 2 Sc370; on foldout view pc

Coldwater 4 on odd-shaped envelope 3x wide as high

Detroit 1 UX13 to Germany

Detroit 3 1c McKinley w/1c grn Fran to England

1c rate

Grand Rapids 1 Sc288 to London England

Grand Rapids 4 illus cc: Brown & Sehler (bldg)

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Jackson 1 green and red ad for Jaxon Wagon

1c blue Fr + 2c red wash + 2c grn Wash pse to Honduras

Jackson 2 aux: “HELD FOR POSTAGE” and 2nd flag over stamp

illus cc: Jackson Corset Co (factory)

Kalamazoo 4 UX11

illus cc: Puritan Corset Co (corset, woman)

Lansing 5 1c grn Fr + 2c red Wash + 2c red Wash pse to Honduras

Leslie 2c pse with Sc705

Mackinaw Sc705 on ppc of Fort Mackinac

Manistique Sc627

Marquette 1 illus ad: Hotel Marquette (Pere Marquette statue)

Marshall draft board penalty envelope w/draft card

Menominee 1 illus cc: Naugle Pole & Tie Co (“Railway Ties” in red on tie)

Mount Clemens addressed to “Marine P.O., Detroit”; aux: “Please give address for your/ mail when navigation closes.”

on #10; sdel w/E6 type

ad cover for Colonial Hotel, multicolor on back, address side on flap

Niles 3 aux: “MISSENT TO/CAMPBELL, N.Y.”

Owosso 3 fancy cc: red Nabisco logo

Port Huron 2 illus cc: Knights of the Modern Maccabees (tent and globe)

Quincy Sc739

Republic 1c green Fr + ½ c Hale

Roscommon cachet: Durant airport ded w/C17 (7/16/33)

Cachet: Durant airport ded w/ 2 Sc728 + 2 Sc729 (2 diff arrangements)

cachet: Durant airport ded w/ 4 x Sc680

cachet: Durant airport ded w/ 4 x Sc681

cachet: Durant airport ded w/Sc711 (6c Wash) + 2c red

cachet: Durant airport ded w/Sc713

cachet: Durant airport ded w/Sc717 + Sc729 + Sc727

cachet: airded no label w/Sc717 and 2 x 3c Wash and “Via Air Mail.” h/s

cachet: Durant airport ded w/C17, aux: Return to Writer Unclaimed, Milwaukee, Wis.” And “Cased by No. 10” on back

Saginaw 1 Sc286

illus cc: Lufkin Rule Co (factory)

Saginaw W Side 1 Sc297

Sc295

Saginaw W Side 4 ppc of Saginaw post office

Sault St Marie 1 illus cc Hotel Iroquois (hotel, ship, locks)

w/Boston, Ohio doane 3/2

Sault St Marie 2 sdel w/E4 type stamp (E2?)

red 2c Wash bisect on pc; aux: “Due 1 Cent.”

Sawyer 1 ½ c rate

Traverse City 1 from Canada w/1c Canada stamp

Traverse City 2 Sc372

Ypsilanti 3 2c cover to England

MINNESOTA

Arlington ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Blooming Prairie Sc708

Bovey ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Sc775 w/ rwb flag cachet to L.E. Niemann

Brainerd Sc549

Crookston 2 2x1c gn Wash w/2c red wash over them

penalty pc: Dept. Interior, US Land Office

Fairfax ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Fairmont 2 pse 3c revalued to 2c

Faribault pse 3c revalued to 2c

Gaylord Sc737

Henning 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Lake City 1 pc w/4 auxs: pur “Rural Carrier No. 1 2 3 4” pur “Carrier. 1,2,3,4,5,6” red “FORWARDED FROM WHEATON, ILL.” Blue “Not for Carier [sic] No. 4”

Le Sueur U522

Mapleton Sc725

McIntosh U526

Menahga Sc737

aux: “Postage due 3 cents.” but no dues

Minneota 1c pse revalued to 1 ½ c (U515) and 1 ½ c stamp

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Minneapolis 4 U293 (letter sheet)

Minneapolis 9 aux: hand “Return to Writer” and “Incorrect Address”

Richmond selvage and gutter line

Rochester 1 aux: red “NOT SIX”

Russell Sc803 + Sc804 + Sc805

Sc800

Sc800 w/ God Bless America label

Sc800 w/flag label and crude cachet

Sc801 w/flag and God Bless America labels

Sc801 w/flag label

Saint Cloud 1 aux: “LEFT THE CITY” applied at Minneapolis

Q1

Saint Louis Park 1c green Fr + Sc690

Sleepy Eye 3 Santa label

Springfield 3c pse revalued to 2c

Waconia Lake Waconia diamond jubilee cachet on U525+Sc705+Sc717 8/24/32

Lake Waconia cachet on UC2 7/4/32

Lake Waconia plane/dirigible cachet 7/4/32 (2 copies)

cachet: 4/30/33 President’s Day

cachet: 3/4/34 1st anniversary of FDR inauguration

Waterville ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Willmar 2 cc: Willing Worker’s Bands for Sudan w/map of Africa

WX24

Fancy cc: Willmar Tribune

Winona 2 2c red Wash on pc to Rome forwarded to Valetta Malta forwarded to Naples w/ Malta h/s and Cook h/s

1c gn Fran + 2c red Wash + 2c pse to “Singapore/Straits Settlement”

1c gn Fran stamp + pse + sdel E6 type to Wausau, aux: “Fee claimed at office of/first address.”

MISSISSIPPI

Edwards Sc774 w/ Mary Bishop flag cachet

Gulfport 1c pse and 1c gr Fr stamp

Mendenhall 2 x Sc741 (George Boyle cover)

Meridian 1 aux: oval “Queen and Crescent Route/Auditor’s Office” (AGS RR)

Meridian 3 Q2

Pc to Guatemala w/”recibida en Guatemala” circular mkg

Morton 1c green Fran on U525

New Albany 3c pse revalued to 2c

Summit 2 x 2c gr Fr + Sc728

Utica Sc732

West Sc774 w/ Mary Bishop flag cachet

MISSOURI

Carrollton 3 3 x 1c gr Fr

Carthage 3 on odd-shaped cover: 6 ½” w x 2 ¾” tall (2-5-16 cover)

Columbia 1 5c stamp (blue Grant) to Paris France

Eldorado Springs sdel: E12 and aux: “FEE CLAIMED AT/KANSAS CITY, MO.”

Sc732

ad: Bennett Skaggs ice w/ tourism cachet

Excelsior Springs illus cc: The Elms (hotel)

Hannibal 1 aux: pur “NO RESPONSE 2(pencil mss) TRIP” “S. 2505”

Hannibal 2 1c stamp on cover on apparent first class mail

Joplin 3 illus cc: Keystone Hotel (hotel)

Treasury Dept, Office of Custodian penalty envelope

KC Sta A 1 on comic leather postcard

KC Sta A 3 illus cc: Avery Co (steam thresher)

KC Sta A 4 Sc412 (1c green Wash coil)

KC Sta A 6 1c green Jeff w/1c green Wash coil added

illus cc: Bemis Bros Bag Co (cat out of the bag)

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Kirksville 1 aux: “Missent/HALLSVILLE, MO.”

Marshfield Sc742 w/July 4th firecracker hand-drawn cachet (7/4/35)

Moberly 1 ppc: “Land of Cotton” black man picker

Neosho leap year 2/29/1916

Pleasant Hill airmail w/C11; multicolor cc for Standard Poultry Journal (ovs)

Queen City Sc732

Saint Charles Sc398

St Louis 2-5-9 all on same corr: from 4th Natl Bank StL to Am Natl Bank Ft Smith Ark

St Louis 7 graphic cc: ABS Flour, Grain and Seed (red diamond)

St Louis 8 illus cc: Drummond Tobacco Co (horseshoe)

St Louis 9 1c black Jeff gpc + 1c green Fran to Germany

St Louis Annex 1 color steamship label

Warrensburg 2 stamp pieced together to form whole

Webb City 1 perfin: W in flag (Wabash?) not on official mail

Warsaw airport dedication: cachet w/Sc718 and Sc710 airmail

cachet: Los Angeles Olympics w/Sc718

MONTANA

Butte 1 Sc286

Cut Bank 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Glacier Park illus cc: Glacier Park Hotel Co (goat)

Same cc: on sdel w/E6 type; aux: “Fee Claimed by Office of First Address” (used earlier than previous)

Great Falls 1 Sc324

2c stamp over 1c gpc

Great Falls 2 aux: pur “Missent to Cowgill, Mo.”

Lewiston 2 1c gr Wash and 2c red Wash stamps

NEBRASKA

Albion sdel w/E12

Callaway Sc774

Crofton C12 and aux: “Via Air Mail.”

2 x 1c green Fran Nebraska ovp (Sc669)

Sc732

David City aux: “Delivery delayed on account of incomplete address.”

Fremont 2 dial reads “16 JAN”

Genoa Sc708

Greeley Sc732

Hemingford Sc732

Herman illus cc: Lincoln National Life Insurance (Lincoln bust)

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Humphrey 2-5-36

Kearney 6 2-5-12

Omaha SY Sta red graphic cc: “Livestock National Bank South Omaha”

Peru Sc671 (Nebr ovpt)

Red Cloud Sc671 (Nebr ovpt)

Airport ded cachet w/C12

Airport ded cachet on UC2

Seward tied seal: “Merry Christmas 1925 Happy New Year 1926 Lutheran Sanitarium Wheat Ridge Colorado”

Spalding Sc742

Tekamah 1c green Fran stationery w/1c grn Fran Nebr ovp (Sc669)

NEVADA

Battle Mountain airmail: 3c pse + C19

Tonopah 4 R234 tied (10c revenue) on proxy postcard to pay proxy tax

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Concord 1 on penalty envelope: “CONCORD, N.H./U.S. PENSION AGENCY,/Department of the Interior./OFFICIAL BUSINESS./---/Penalty for private use, $300.”

cc: United States Senate

Concord 5 Ad: Holt Bros Mfg (factory)

birch bark postcard w/1c postage due

cc: United States Senate on blue envelope

Dover 1 sdel: E4 type

Keene 1 double postcard aux: pur “Due 1 ct.” and 2nd 1c green Fran applied over flag cancel

1c gn Fr stamp + 1c gn Fr pse

Laconia aux: “Returned for Postage”

Lisbon SH Sta illus cc: photo of “Old Sugar Maple Place” house

Manchester 6 2 x cc: City of Manchester Tax Bill 1908 window envelopes

Plymouth Q2 on cover: possibly July 1

sdel: 6 x 2c red Wash stamp

Portsmouth 1 Sc286

Portsmouth 3 sdel w/E6 and circ stamp “Received for Special Delivery/Boston, Mass. P.O.”

NEW JERSEY

Absecon sdel w/E12

Arlington 1 mourning cover from Switzerland w/Swiss stamp; as recd

Atlantic City 1 fancy blue embossed cc: Hotel Luray

Atlantic City 2 5c blue Grant to London England w/ Brighton Casino cc

Atlantic City 4 fancy blue cc: Marlborough-Blenheim

Avon by the Sea Sc627

Bernardsville 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Bradley Beach Sc267 plate number single 318

Sc231

Branchville Sc740

Bridgeton 2 x 2c red Wash horiz coil

Camden 5 illegal use of documentary stamp (R164)

Cape May 3 4x3 3c pur Wash + 1c gn Wash sdel: aux “FEE CLAIMED BY OFFICE/OF FIRST ADDRESS”

Clayton photo cc: Clayton Title & Trust (buildings)

Coytesville Sc710 (5c bicen Wash) to Berlin, Germany

Sc719 (5c Olympics) to Berlin, Germany

1 ½ c rate (stamp) and odd cc

Dover 1 as recd on Mexican postcard w/Mexican stamp

East Orange 1 no stamp and 2c postage due

U222 (5c Garfield) to London, England

East Orange 2 Sc212 type + Sc231

Elizabeth 2 illus cc: Peter Breidt Brewery (logo)

Elizabeth 5 color cachet: flag and patriotic slogan

Haddonfield Sc615 w/illus cc: William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh (hotel)

Hamburg 3x1c green Fran coils to Germany

Hawthorne Sc732

Keyport 3c pse revalued to 2c

Jersey City 2 multicolor ad: NJ Car Springs & Rubber Co (red&green) Nick

Lakehurst zep cover w/C14 and various markings

Little Silver 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Maplewood Sc610

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Medford Sc732

Metuchen aux: via airmail via dirigible “Los Angeles” to Bermuda

Netcong Sc737

Ocean Grove 3 1c grn Fran on Salvadoran stationery (domestic) underpaid?

Ocean Grove 8 aux: “Directory Service Given, General P.O. No. 9”

Orange 3 5c blue Lincoln to Buenos Aires, Argentina

Orange 5 Sc372 w/margin printing and partial plate number

Passaic 2 on 5c blue Linc pse to Berlin Germany “per S.S. Deutschland”

Paterson 1 mourning cover

Sc288 to Germany w/handwritten “Preisr(tsel” (ship?)

Penns Grove 1 Sc618

Sc620

Plainfield 8c Sherman and 2c red Wash to Buenos Aires, Argentina double weight

as recd on German card w/German stamp

Rahway as recd on Chile card w/Chile stamps

Ridgefield Park 5c blue Wash on domestic cover (?)

Ridgewood mourning cover

Somerville aux: box h/s “DECEASED VERIFIED/STATISTICAL DIVISION A.E.F.” and mss “Missing W A Sommers Capt Inf”

Trenton 2 reg ret rect (2 examples)

Vauxhall Sc737

Washington 1 fancy cc: Cornish Co.

NEW MEXICO

Columbus purple aux “Soldier’s Mail O.K. [sig] Chaplain 13th Cavalry”

Cc: Army and Navy Dept, Intl Cmte of the YMCA

Deming WWI-era r/w/b/flag cachet; typed docketing “Nothing herein for publication.” And mss “Dates of allotments dates”

purple h/s circ time recd

East Las Vegas perfin “BIG 4”

Tyrone 4c rate, pair 2c from booklet pane

NEW YORK

Ardsley-on-Hudson 1 ½ cent rate (Harding stamp)

Auburn 1 ad: red map of Finger Lakes and on back

Bath 2c red Wash to Singapore, Malay Peninsula (receiver 32 days later)

Binghamton 5 Red allover ad: M.L.Belcher w/Sc285

color ad: RG Dun (book)

Binghamton 6 illus cc: Security Mutual Life Insurance (bridge)

Corning 1 graphic cc: red/bl CRMaltby and Co.

Delanson M Wash reply card

Elmira 4 Illus cc: Eclipse Bicycle Co (arrow and moon)

fancy cc: FM Howell cigar box labels (script) w/Sc286

Sc288 to Belgium

allover Span Am war flag patriotic w/Sc286

Elmira 6 aux: “Missent to Norwich, N.Y.”

Garrison FDC: Sc727 cachet

Sc732 w/r/w/b NRA logo label

NAMW cachet w/C23

color cc/ad: Golden Gate Bridge: “Be a Guest of the West in ‘39” w/Sc852

Gasport Sc643 on pc

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Greene Sc646

Sc647

Hammondsport 7/18/30 cachet for NYS Av Cmsn visit w/C11

Hornellsville Sc324

Jeffersonville Sc792

Lacona M Wash reply card

Lily Dale Sc732

Medina 1 flag crooked, missed stamp, cds used to cancel stamp

Mineola w/rwb flag cachet/cc

New Brighton as recd from Venice w/Italian stamp

New Hyde Park M Wash reply card

Newman Sc708

New Rochelle 1 as rec on pc from Italy, no postage, aux: “COLLECT POSTAGE 4 CENTS” w/3c and 1c US dues tied

New Rochelle 3 5c blue Wash to Germany w/German censor tape and German aux: pur “Geprűft./Zur Beförderung zugelaffen/O.P.D. Speyer.”

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Newburgh 3 aux: “RETURNED TO SENDER/Cannot be Found by Brooklyn, N.Y., P.O./Dec 21, 1901/ Do not post again in this/Envelope or Wrapper”

auxs: one similar to previous “RTS”; also “SEVERAL OF SAME/NAME IN DIRECTORY./SEARCHER No. 1/WALL STREET STA./N.Y.P.O.”

Niagara Falls 1 Sc295

Ovs: red globe Pan Am stationery

Niagara Falls 2 on 2c pc to Copenhagen Denmark

w/2 x 2c red Wash to Salisbury Rhodesia w/ Rhodesia h/s

2 x Sc323 on pc to Lyon France

on 2c pc to Belgium w/Cooks/Brussels aux mark

pc w/o postage

Niagara Bridge St ad cover like hotels: red sweaters on back

Niagara Falls Sta auxs: “HELD FOR POSTAGE.” And “This is the MAIL|LETTER|PACKAGE for/which you sent postage” with second illegible flag

Ogdensburg ad: red Wise King Flour

Olean on 2c pc to Yenangyong Upper Burma India w/Indian cds

Oyster Bay 1 2c red Wash arrow line to France w/ Fr due mkg

mourning cover

Pittsford 1c gn Fr stamp and 1c gr Fr pse (U420)

Sc705

Pleasantville Sc615

Rochester 3 on mourning cover

Rochester CharSta U522

date as 12 23 with 12 instead of Dec

Rochester EASta red graphic cc: Gleason (cog)

Q2

Sacket Harbor Sc627

Saratoga Springs 1c gr Wash stamp and 2c red Wash stamp

2 x 5c blue Wash to Brazil

Saranac Lake 1c green Wash coil

Saugerties 2 3c purp Wash and 2c red Wash pse to Germany; typed “Germany. By S.S.St. Paul.” But aux “TOO LATE/N.Y.P.O. Foreign Station”

Sayville 2 aux: “Not in Directory”

Schen Brandyw Sta Sc702

Schen Crane St St 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Schuylerville FDC: Sc644 (8/3/27) (Burgoyne) (has Granville NY flag on back)

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Scotia cc: Schenectady Airport, w/ red/blue stripes “use airmail”

Sc774 w/cachet for 277th anniversary of town

Sidney graphic illus cc: Van Brunt Seeing Machines, Horicon, WI (seeder)

1924 in dial strange, nonstandard, too dark and wrong font

Sidney Center Sc903

Sc899 and Sc900

Sc898 w/multicolor cachet “Let’s Put our Hands To the Plow Protect America” w/man, oxen, and plow

cachet: “THE U.S. THANK GOD/RIGHT OR WRONG.OUR COUNTRY” w/Sc836

same w/Sc901

Spring Valley on QSL ham radio card

Stapleton 1 5c blue Lincoln to domestic address

Staten Stapleton registered: 1c gn Wash and 12c brown Fr (Sc417)

Staten Port Rich 2x2 + 1c to Finland

Syracuse 6 multicolor cc: Great Northern Milling w/Sc286

Syr Northrup Sta 2c pse w/R228 documentary stamp added to pay war rate, aux h/s “Held for Postage” and “DUE 1 CENT”, 1c green Wash added and CDS tied

Troy 1 fancy cc: Emigh & Lobdell

Troy 2 U222 type (5c Garfield) to Germany

Troy Lansingburg2 aux h/s: “Do your bit/BUY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND/Inquire at any bank or post office”

Tuxedo Park 3 w/2 untied WX38

Utica 4 2c IR overprint (R155) on cover

fancy cc: Central NY Varnish (gold and blue)

Utica 5 red illus cc: IOOF flag; aux: “RETURNED FOR/BETTER DIRECTION.”

red ad for AH Williams and Co, w/Sc295

Waterloo 2c red gpc revalued to 1c

Watertown 1 dial inverted

Watertown 2 5c blue Grant to France forwarded to Rome and Florence; Rome, Florence, and American Express (Paris) markings

Watervliet 1 Doane from Dresden Station NY

Watervliet 3 Sc372 w/ad: Journal and Democrat

illus cc and back: Barker Brand (dog)

West New Brighton 1c grn Fran pse to Norway (UPU circular rate)

Woodhaven double strike of flag: Nov 27 and Nov 28

Yonkers 1 Sc372

NEW YORK CITY

Main Office:

(blank) Var? aux: “RETURNED TO SENDER,/Cannot be Found by Brooklyn, N.Y., P.O.,/FEB 26, 1897/Do not post again in this/Envelope or Wrapper.”

#10 illus cc: Hartford Steam Boiler (locomotive)

#11 2c red Wash + 1c gn Fr + 2c gn Wash pse to Belgium

illus cc: The Rudder (ship and Poseidon’s trident)

#14 ad: New York Paper Box (women, shield and women)

5c pse to Vagesack, Germany (2-5-1898!)

illus cc: The New York Tribune (building)

#17 stamp collar for Funk & Wagnalls

#20 ad: New York Paper Box (women, shield and women)

U351 to Hamburg Germany

#25 1c blue Fran pse + 1c blue Fran stamp

#28 orange large graphic cc: Owl Magazine (also back ad)

#29 ad: Wynant& Co Fish Dealers (fish, boat)

#30 aux: “Returned to writer for better di-/rections from PITTSBURG, PA./STATION C”

#32 Sc285 on cover w/ large purple K over cc

#34 ad cover: Hine & Robertson (rubber pipe bursting through envelope), red seal

#36 illus cc: Arbuckles’ Coffee (angel)

illus cc: Prentiss Patent Vises (vise)

#38 ad: New York Paper Box (women, shield and women)

#41 ad: Columbia Smelting and Refining (metal ingot silver applied to envelope)

#44 5c blue Grant to “The Princess Brancaccio. . .Italy”

#51 allover ad: salmon Harper& Bros Publishers (Harper’s Weekly) incl illus of bldg

#52 unsevered Postal Reply card (UY1 type), also has Bridgeport, CT flag

#64 aux h/s: “Missent to Norwich, Conn.”

#65 graphic cc: Art League in circle, advertising writers

#70 UX8

#72 blue w/illus cc: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co (locomotive)

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Stations:

A 1 5c brn Grant (Sc270) to Munich Germany

A 2 ad: Durkee salad dressing (bottle)

D 1 mourning cover

D 5 s del w/E4

UPU card to Sweden

D 6 allover flag SpAm war patriotic

D 9 Sc295

E 4 U349

E 8 5c brn Grant to Paris France

F Illus cc: P.C. Lorenz (surgical instruments)

fancy cc: Seiters and Kappes Lithographers

H 3 green graphic cc: The Windsor (deers head and crest)

H 8 ad on blue: T. Shriver Iron Foundry

I 1 illus cc: Mecca Mystic Shrine (crescent and scimitar)

J 1 2 x 5c blue Grant to Paris forwarded to Italy

ad on yellow: Harlem Pockets Coal (red in triangle)

3c purple Jackson and 2c pse to Berlin Germany

K 1 1c grn Fr and 2 x 2c red Wash on small cover to Germany

1c gpc + 1c PanAm (Sc294) to Germany

N 1 2c red Wash to London, foreign due, forwarded to Dresden and Prague, multiple markings and backstamps, busy

O 7 allover shadow ad: gray Butterick Publishing Co (music)

O 11 illus cc: Music Trade Review (violin, quill)

Cc: Music Teachers’ Natl Assoc 19th Annual Convention

P 5 special delivery (E4 type)

P 6 5c brn Grant to British Guiana forw to NY to Boston

P 8 5c blue pse to Antwerp Belgium

Illus ad: Wm. H. Force Co (leaves, design)

P 9 U256 (4c gn Jackson) + 1c gn Fr to Henley-on-Thames England

5c blue Gr stamp + 5c blue Gr PSE to Hamburg, Germany

U 1 5c blue Gr stamp to Leipzig Germany forw to Dresden

U 2 NYC to Cleve w/1c gn Fr on Salvadoran pse

W 1 1+2+2 to London England

Y 1 U377 to Germany

1c green Fran pse to Germany

Mad Sq T14 Illus cc: B Cohen & Sons (boot)

fancy cc: National Humane Alliance

Penn T 2 censor tape w/”OPENED BY/CENSOR 1667”

Censor tape w/”OPENED BY/CENSOR 1748”

Penn T 8 pc for new service on Soo Line, to ticket agent, w/ SL perfin

Penn T 11 3 x 2c red Wash w/French censor tape

Brooklyn:

New Lots Sta 2 large hand: “RETURNED TO WRITER/UNCLAIMED/from/PITTSBURGH,/PA.” and aux “Not in directory/Clerk No. 14”

St Johns Pl Sta 5c blue Wash to Italy w/censor tape and multiple censor marks (Italian, boxes: 1 red and 1 black) (1/17/17)

Sta A 5c Pan-Am (Sc297) to Saxony

Sta C pc w/2 x 1c grn Fran to Toronto Canada

Sta S Sc297

pc w/2c red Wash to Vienna Austria

Sta V 2 WX5 tied

Buffalo:

B46 Slogan Sc294

C14 Hertel Sta 1 purple aux: “DUE 1 CENT” 1925 pc w/1c postage

A38 Station A illus ad: Dold hams and perfin

NORTH CAROLINA

Asheville 1 illus cc: Dickson-Mason Lumber (clouds)

5c blue Grant to England forwarded (Cook label) to Italy

Asheville 2 plate number 1556

Asheville 5 reg ret recpt

Asheville 6 unusual notation about stamps

Ayden Sc732

Blowing Rock graphic cc: Southern Bell (bell)

Burlington 2 auxs: finger “Returned to Writer,” “Delivery delayed on account of incomplete address, directory searcher No. [?],” and “Unclaimed from Charlotte, N.C.”

Elon College 2c red pse + Sc555 (3c Lincoln) 1929 airmail: typed “VIA AIR MAIL” and ms “Via Air Mail!” markings

Fayetteville 1 pc has ribbon wrapped attachment

Henderson 2 orange-bordered Order Card

Jefferson Sc732

Kings Mountain cachet: 10/7/30 blue text w/brown soldier and C12

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Lexington 1 Sc398

Morganton photo cc: Burkemont Hotel

1/2c Nathan Hale + 1c pse

Reidsville ad: Nine O’Clock Washington Tea (product box)

Tabor Sc732

Wilson on reg ret recpt

NORTH DAKOTA

Ashley Sc732

Bismarck 2 as recd from England w/2p postage and forwarded w/in ND

Bowbells ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Sc732

Edinburg Sc732

Fairmount Sc732

Fargo as recd from Norway w/Norge stamp

Illus cc: J.I. Case (Old Abe the War Eagle); Wogansport ND Doane (2/1) as receiver

5c blue Wash used on domestic ppc overpaid

Real photo of Hillsboro, ND

Glen Ullin Sc732

Grand Forks 1 1c postage due tied, aux: pur “UNCLAIMED./JUN 2 1912” pur “ADVERTISED” brown “MAYVILLE, NORTH DAKOTA”

Jamestown 1 2c red Wash pse + 2c red Wash stamp double weight domestic

Lidgerwood Sc718

Minot 2 perfin and plate number 5182

Minot 4 Leland Hotel & The Parker (hotels)

2c horiz coil

New England ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Page Sc732

Stanley odd size cover: very short compared to length

Washburn Sc706 (1 1/2c bicen Wash)

Wilton Sc732

OHIO

Apple Creek Sc731a w/edge printing

Ashland 1 Sc295

color ad: Dr Hess and Clark (horse)

ad: red/bl Faultless Rubber Co on buff envelope

Ashland 2 to AEF: 7 forwards and aux: “Returned to U.S.A” and stamp of new location of soldier on back

gold&green fancy cc: FEMyers (stylized M) w/”M&B” perfin

Ashtabula pc in glassine w/add postage aux: “This is the mail for which you sent postage”

Q1

Athens 1 Q1

Q1

Athens 2 stamp in 5 pieces as postage

Bellefontaine 1 WX6 tied

Bellevue 2 color ad: The Ohio Cultivator

Illus cc: Jacob Neufer, organizer OOO (owls)

Bryan 1 Sc370 on Bryan Plow Co 2-color cc

Cambridge 1 red ad: Metallic Bread Board w/Sc323

Canton 3 Ad: Bucher & Gibbs Plows (farmers and plow)

as recd on England w/illus cc and 2 ½p revenue stamp

Canton 5 red and black ad: Dueber Hampden Watches

Illus cc: The Courtland (bldg)

Canton 6 mourning cover

Canton 7 label on ppc: Stark Co Centannial&Industrial Expo”

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Canton 9 1c stamp with border printing

Canton 10 Sc230 + Sc323

Canton 11 perfin: BMC (Berger Manufg Co)

Canton 13 reg ret recpt

Cardington Sc741

Chillicothe 1 as recd from England gpc + stamp (AMS paid all on back)

WX5 (tied)

1c pse + Sc295 + Sc329 to Lobau in Sachsen, Germany

Cincinnati 1 2c pse + 2c stamp

Graphic cc: Ernest Urchs pianos

Cincinnati 2 ad: Cincinnati Bung-Bush Co

Cincinnati 3 illus cc: Stndard Printing Ink Co (design)

Cincinnati 7 illus cc: Grand Hotel (hotel) more on back

color ad: Snider’s Soup and Catsup

Cincinnati 10 ad: Cincinnati Stamping Co (steam cooker)

Cincinnati 12 front: large r/w/b 44 star flag

2c pse + Sc286 + 1c gn Fr to Bayern Germany

ad: John Sauer Cigar Leaf Tobacco (leaf in brown)

2c pse to Natal Africa at “Printed Matter” rate

Cincinnati 13A illus cc: Burnet House (guard shield dog)

Cincinnati 16 U348 + Sc285

large graphic cc: Chas. E. Moore & Co., Commission Merchants, Fruits and Vegetables

mail souvenir card: opens w/views, 2x postage to Switzerland

Cincinnati 17 illus cc: Cincinnati Regalia Co (flag)

Cincinnati 19 2c pse + 3c purple Jackson to St Gall Switzerland

#10 Trasury Dept penalty envelope

Cinci Sta D as recd from Jerusalem w/revalued German stamp

Cinci Sta E mourning cover

As recd on postcard from Russia w/Russian stamp

Cinci Sta F ad: orange/blk Buckeye Buggy

Cinci Sta H 4c brn Grant (Sc303?); US Playing Card Co cc

Cinci Sta I 1 w/Haynes OH Doane 2/1

Cinci Sta N 1 illus cc: Cinci Bung-Bush Co (bung and bush)

Cinci Sta N 2 large cc: Hinckley Yellow Pine Cincinnati

Cinci Sta P no stamp: no sign of postage due

Cinci Evanston odd envelope: purple w/repeating design

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Circleville War Dept penalty pc: order to appear for examination

War Dept penalty pc (very small): draft classification

Cleveland Sta C pc w/2c stamp to Germany

Illus cc: Standard Tool Co (twist drills)

Cleveland Sta G WX6 (tied)

Cleveland Sta H aux: “Address supplied by/Direct. Sect./Central Sta. No. 3/ Chicago, Ill. P.O.”

Q1

Collinwood aux: “UNMAILABLE” because of glitter

Columbiana aux: “Deficiency in Adress/Supplied by Post Office at”

Columbus 1 cc: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society

5c blue Grant pse to Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Coshocton 1 Sc328 and aux: “Missent to Yellowstone Park, Wyo.”

Plate number 2756; Balt RPO handstamp

Defiance 1 1c postage due on RFD pc

Aux: pur “Missent to Union City, Pa.”

Delaware UY4 (Sherman)

from Ecuador w/EcuadorSc182 and 1c grn Frank to Shelby OH

Odd envelope: variegated

Delphos Q1

East Liverpool 1 yellow and red graphic cc: E Liv Tribune

2 x Sc370 + 2c red pse to Germany (overpaid 1c)

odd East Liverpool straightline handstamp

East Liverpool 2 2c red pse + Q3 to Bavaria, Germany (Oct 1913 commercial usage)

Findlay 1 Sc324

sdel w/E6 type, aux: “Fee claimed by office of/first address.”

Fort Loramie photo cc: Willman Department Store, Ft. Loramie

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Fort Recovery 2c red pse + Sc705

Georgetown Sc729

Gettysburg Sc727

Granville PO Dept COD penalty envelope

Sc798

Sc784 on 8/4/37 po dedication w/cachet

Hamilton 1 text ad on back: Frechtling Wholesale Grocery

Hamilton 2 on glassine envelope

Hiram Sc690

Ironton 1 2c pc to Paris France

Ironton 2 odd-shaped envelope: 7” long x 2 ¾” high

Lancaster 2 no stamp: no sign of postage due

Tied comic label “BOOST”

Lancaster 3 photo cc: The Rowlands-King Co. (store)

Lancaster 5 three impressions of flag on top of each other

Lebanon orange cc: for a book “Bright Ideas for Christmas”

Orange cc: for a book “Complete Halloween Book”

Aux: “Missent to Springfield, Ohio.”

Leipsic sdel w/E12 and aux ”Fee…1st Address”

Lorain Sc324

Aux: “Missent.”

No stamp w/Aux: “Held for Postage.”

Malta 1c pse w/ printed “SEC. (562 P.L.&R.)” above indicia

Mansfield 1 illus cc: Crawford & Taylor Cracker & Biscuit (factory)

Mansfield 2 ad: Monarch Stove (flying wheel)

Marietta 1 as recd from China w/stamp

As recd from England w/stamp

Illus cc: BPOE (elk) and finger aux: “RETURNED/TO/WRITER”

Marietta 2 5c blue Wash to London back to Missouri

1c red and 5c blue Washs and 1c gn Fr to Kobe Japan

Massillon 2 5c blue Lincoln to Switzerland

5c blue Lincoln to Paris France

2c pse + 3c Jackson (Sc302) to Paris France

2c pse + 3c Jackson (Sc253) to Paris France

aux: “To avoid delay have your mail/addressed to street and number/Direct. Sect./…” and circular “Name Not in Directory/Sub.”

Massillon 3 3c purple Wash + 2c red Wash to Paris France

3c pse + 2c red wash to Paris France

Millersburg 1 ½ c pse

Color cc: Allies Flags (flags in red/wh/blue)

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Newark illus cc: Styron, Beggs & Co (great seal)

No stamp: no sign of postage due

New Carlisle Sc708

Newcomerstown illus cc: Continental Insurance (soldier)

New Concord Sc688

Norwood Q1

Mourning cover

Oberlin 2 aux: “Damaged by cancelling machine” and OX11 on back

5c blue Wash to “European Turkey”

Pleasant Hill illus cc: Beery School of Horsemanship (horses)

Portsmouth 1 2c stamp ppc to Eng: aux: circ red “Paid Liverpool Packet”

Portsmouth 2 multicolor ad: F.C.Daehler (building)

Portsmouth 3 Q1

Saint Bernard aux: “address Correction/Dec 27 1920/[?] Ohio”

Salem 3 illus cc: blue LP logo

Sandusky SloganPV pc with ad for Roy H. Williams as candidate for Common Pleas Judge with biography

Sandusky Ced Pt purple cachet: Philatelic Exhibition 1933 (2 copies)

Blue cachet w/Sc707 and Sc728

Sherwood Sc804 and Sc806 (prexies)

Sidney 2 multicolor ad: Monarch Machine Tool Co. (lion)

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Steubenville as recd on pc from England w/stamp

Reg ret recpt

Illus cc: The Imperial (hotel)

Auxs: “Returned for Postage” and “Due 1 Cent” for felt flag

on card

Tiffin 1 as recd from Canada; aux: “held for postage” w/ stamp over

Aux: “held for postage” and “this is the mail for which you sent postage”

Color ad: Capitol Food (product and animals)

Uhrichsville registered: 2c red Wash and 10c yellow Fr

Warren 1 as recd on English pc w/London mc and stamp

Warren 2 aux: “No Such Post Office In State Named.” And “Returned for Better Address.”

Wellington aux: “UNCLAIMED.”

Westerville 1 aux: “Missent to Van Buren, Ohio”

Xenia 3 illus cc: Favey & Co wholesale grocers (building)

Youngstown 2 aux: “DUE TWO CENTS”

Youngstown 6 1c green Fran on ppc to Coahuila Mexico

OKLAHOMA/INDIAN TERRITORY

Anadarko w/2c stamp over Dept Int US Indian Service penalty env

Apache Sc740 + Sc741

Checota 1941 dateless w/airmail cachet and C23

Hydro 2c pse + Sc705

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Nowata 2 2c pse + 1c + mss “3c due” and 3c due stamp

Oklahoma 1 Sc324

Oklahoma 2 illus cc: IWW

1909 WX tied

Aux: “Address Supplied by Oklahoma PO Directory”

Pawnee aux: pur box “REASON FOR/NON-DELIVERY/CHECKED” with mss check at “UNCLAIMED”

Salina Sc736

Shawnee 1 on 1c gpc w/Sheridan

South McAlester IT large hand “Returned to Writer” from Kansas City

Spiro 1c M Wash reply card

Vinita 1c M Wash reply card

OREGON

Albany 1 aux: small hand “Returned to Writer”

Beaverton 1 1926 sesqui liberty bell pse (U522)

Corvallis 2 1c green Wash on pc w/”A 5858” plate number in selvage

Grants Pass 2 5c blue Wash to Switzerland 1917 w/censor markings and tape

Gresham Sc704 and Sc706

Independence 1 cachet: Oregon 1934 Banner Year w/Sc736

Cachet: Oregon 1934 Banner Year

Independence 2 Sc751a (lower left from sheet) w/Cover Specialist ad about flag cancels and autograph of postmaster

Sc741 w/1c due tied and aux: “Postage Due 1 Cent.”

Cachet: large state seal w/Sc783 (7/4/37)

Cachet: large red eagle w/Sc783 (8/3/37)

NAMW 5/19/38: C23, rwb cachet w/flag, w/Marfa, TX NAMW aux h/s

NAMW 5/19/38: C23, rwb cachet w/flag, signed by PM and brochure

Sc807

Lebanon 1 cc: Oregon Rural Letter Carriers’ Association

Marshfield 2 ad on back for Coos Bay Railroad

McMinnville 1 aux: “Not in City Directory/Searcher No. 3” and SLC handstamp

Newberg airmail: to Lindbergh w/C10

Portland 1 small ad: Ride a Monarch King of Bicycles (lion)

aux: large finger “Returned to Writer. Unclaimed at Portland, Oregon. Nov 13 1897”

Portland Sta A 2 aux: “Not delivered by Carrier/For want of time.”

Portland B Y38 2c on pc to Nordrach Colonie, Swartzwald, Germany

Roseburg on #10 penalty envelope for “Department of the Interior/United States Indian Service/[typed]Roseburg, Oregon.”

R196 (1c documentary stamp) used to pay war rate

Salem 3 fancy cc for “The Pacific Homestead, The Great Western Farm Paper” and red aux: “HELD FOR POSTAGE”

Silverton Sc557 and 1928 Christmas Seal (WX) to Basel, Switzerland

Sc649; auxs: “ADDRESS UNKNOWN.” and finger “RETURNED TO

WRITER”/”UNCLAIMED./Marshalltown, Iowa”

2c red pse + 3c pur Lincoln (Sc555) to Birsfelden, Switzerland

PENNSYLVANIA

Altoona 2 spec del: E8 and red aux:“Fee claimed at office of first/Address. Philadelphia, Pa.”

Ashland U522

Beaver Falls 1 pc w/2c stamp to “Larnaca, Island of Cyprus” w/Cyp h/s

Bedford 1 Sc549

Bellefonte C2 12-18-18 cover w/aux: “Special Delivery” “FEE CLAIMED BY OFFICE OF FIRST ADDRESS” and typed “AEROPLANE MAIL”

C2 12-18-18 cover w/aux: “Special Delivery” and handstamp “WINGED LETTERS/from A.C. Roessler, East Orange, N.J./[airplane over countryside”

Brownsville cachet: 100th anniv free public schools in PA

Burgettstown B&O perfin

Burnham 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Carlisle 2 illus cc: Shearer Bros (tires)

Central City Sc708

Clairton 2 Sc730 (single)

Clearfield aux: mss “gone away” and finger “Returned to Writer”

Small cover w/plate #

Clifton Heights color ad: Mione Hand Soap (black/yellow circle)

Columbia 1 Sc328

Columbia 3 color cc: Keeley Stove Co (shield and red C)

Sc615

Connellsville 3 aux: “INCORRECTLY ADDRESSED/RETURN TO WRITER” and “NOT IN 23RD ENGINEERS/NOV 1 – 1918” on cover to AEF

Crafton 2 Q1

Creighton 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

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Dillsburg unofficial first day for Sc707: 1/1/32

Sc732

Donora sdel w/E6 type

Downington w/WX38 (untied)

Erie 3 illus cc: Erie Steam Bending Works (factory)

Erie 9 illus cc: P. Felbinger Harnesses (horse’s head)

Franklin 2 as recd on French w/French stamp

Grampian Sc732

Hanover 1 aux: purple hand “Forwarded/RETURNED TO WRITER/Cannot be found by/LOS ANGELES, CAL./P.O./JAN/24/1905/I.O.”

Ad cover: H.W. Parr Sale and Exchange Stables (horse)

Hanover 2 2 x Sc397

Hawley Sc807 (prexie)

Hazleton 2 x 1c green Fran on pc to Hungary

photo cc: John Spohr, for pres of Firemen’s Assoc

Huntingdon 2 illus cc: JC Blair Manuf’g Stationers (factory)

Lancaster 4 allover orange shadow: Elmira Mechanics Society

Lancaster 7 illus cc: Knights of Malta (meeting w/crosses)

Lancaster 9 Q2

Illus cc: Piersol Carpet (bell)

Landisville Sc555

Lebanon 1 Sheridan PA Doane (2/3)

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Loganton NAMW: 5/19/38 orange cachet w/C23

Meadville 4 illus cc: Spirella (clip) and hs “Forwarded.” W/coil stamp

illus cc: The Lafayette (eagle and crest)

Meadville 5 2c pse to Brazil w/200 reis Brazil postage due stamp & mkgs

Monongahela 3 WX6 tied

Mount Carmel 2c red Wash stamp and 1c gn Fr pse

Mount Jewett 6 x 1c gn Fr and 2 x Sc730 (corner pair w/selvage)

Mount Oliver to Philippines, forwarded there, 2c pc

Muncy red illus cc/ad: French’s Crown Paint (paint can)

ms “Due 2” w/ 2x1c and 2c dues tied

Nesquehoning 6/14/33: r/w/b Betsy Ross cachet w/Sc729

New Albany Sc804 (1c prexie)

Newcastle 1 as recd on 1c Canada gpc

Newtown Sc651

Norristown 3 ad: red “Cook with a Gas Range” with reasons

Norristown 6 Schermack

Oxford 1 ½ c rate (pse) (U481 type)

Phoenixville 1 Sc299 (10c Pan-Am) on RFD registered

Phoenixville 4 odd shaped cover (1 ¾” high x 6 ½” long)

Pottsville 1 allover green shadow ad: Schmeltzer Ginger Ale

Pottsville 3 1c gn Wash stamp + 2c red Wash pse

Reading 1 fancy cc: Bright & Lerch

Reading 3 photo ad: Kissinger & Briner (store)

Ridgway 2 w/tied label: “Come to Ridgway, Pa./JULY. 4th & 5th/Mammoth Celebration”

Saltsburg Sc627

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Sharon 1 2c + Sc287 (4cTM) + Sc289 (8cTM) on registered (w/NY Reg Exchange tag) to Switzerland (overpaid 1c)

1c grn PSE + 2 x Sc324 to Zurich Switzerland (double flag)

Sharon 3 gpc cut down to ~4” w x 3 ¼” tall (meter reading/bill)

Slippery Rock Sc784

Spangler Sc775 on Mary Bishop flag cachet

State Sc775 on Mary Bishop flag cachet

Stroudsburg 2 large red/wh/blue flag sticker and aux: “This is the letter for which/you sent postage.”

Tamaqua cc: USRA/Philadelphia and Reading RR

Titusville as recd on card from Tasmania, 1c Tasmania stamp, aux: “U.S. CHARGE/TO COLLECT/2 CENTS”

Tremont Sc732

Washington 2 1c McKinley w/1c green Franklin to Berlin, Germany

Wayne 1c gn Wash and 2c red Wash stamps

Waynesboro 2 Sc328

Waynesboro 3 Sc300 on pc; auxs: “Called” and “Not R.F.D. [mss 1 2 3]”

Weatherly cachet: Sc703 w/red/blue 1933 Flag Day (Betsy Ross)

Weissport (2 copies) Weissport Keystone cachet (1/17/33) w/3 1c gn Fr

Flag Day cachet (5/10/33) w/red/blue Betsy Ross w/Sc706

Valley Forge cachet (1/17/34) on 1 ½ pse

Williamsport 3 Sc295

York 1 ad: keystone Farm Machine Co (plow?)

as recd on double viewcard from Germany w/German stamp, 5c US due stamp and “New York Due 5 Cents marking”

York 7 2c + 1c + 2c pse to Antafogasta Chile

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Pittsburgh:

Sta A 1 cc overprinted: T.J. Donahue/Receiver in Bankruptcy

Sta D Sc295

Arsenal Sta 2 Q1

Ewalt Sta 4 Q1

Kilbuck Sta 2 w/ South Africa dues, many aux mkgs, well-travelled

Squirrel Hill Sta Sc548

Uptown Sta 1 2/12/09: centennial of Lincoln’s birth

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Philadelphia:

Illegible station 2c red pse w/10c green Canada spec del stamp to Hamilton Ont

Damaged aux: pur “Received in bad order,/Station [?], Philadelphia, Pa.”

NE Slogan 1 aux: black finger “Returned to Writer”

7 illus cc: Pennsylvania Fire Ins Co (Quaker—Penn?)

8 allover shadow ad: Pure Ice Cream Lippincott-Huber Co.

11 5c blue Grant to Austria: Austrian dues, mkgs

12 illus cc: Vacuum Soap Co

C, G, or O 5c blue Grant to Germany fwd Spain fwd to Granada

A ovate illus cc: Land Title & Trust (bldg)

Allover pink ad: American Baptist Publication Society(bldg)

2+1+2 stamps to Bizanos-Tau, Basses Pyrenees, France

A F37 NE2 on very small envelope size of flag

B 3 SpAm allover flag patriotic

D 1 Sc373 (imperf) on cover to Canada

G NE 5c blue Grant to Dresden Germany

J 1 Treasury Dept penalty envelope (blue)

J 4 2c red Wash coil

Address on flap side: A.F. Bornot Bro C. (illus of factory) fills usual front of envelope (like hotel covers)

O 2 ad: Riehle Bros Testing Machine Co (red)

O 4 no stamp: 1c due applied over flag

Damaged pc: white paper fixes tear, h/s aux: “Received in bad order./ Station O, Philadelphia, Pa.”

1c grn Fr to England w/10 centime due marking

O 5 1c pc to Germany w/aux: “PRINTED MATTER”

O 6 SC412 (1c grn Wash coil w/line) on envelope

Q NE illegal use of cut square

R shadow ad: Hard-Shell Enameling (turtle)

S 7 mourning cover w/Sc286

S 8 fancy cc: P.F. Campbell, practical millwright (wheel)

S 10 ad: Rech Morbaker wagonmaker (factory) w/Sc370

S 11 Sc 397 + 2 x 2c red Wash stmps to Steiermark Austria

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Broad St sdel w/E4 type

Broad St 3 sdel w/E6 type

Broad St 4 2 x 1c stamp pc to Holland forwarded to Paris w/aux “A 66” in box

Fairhill 1 dialless on 1c circular w/illus ad (fireplace)

Fairhill 4 1c blu McKinley gpc + 1c gn Fr to Dresden Germany

Frankford 2 ad: Floor-Olea (factory w/train in foreground)

Germantown 1 1c due stamp

Mount Airy Sc368 (Lincoln imperf) top row

N Phil as recd on 1p gpc from England fan letter 1912: asking film star Florence Laurence’s photo and autograph

Sc 370

N Phil 1 2c on pc to Shanghai China

Paschall Q1

Penn Square sdel w/E6 type, aux: “Not in Directory,/ Searcher No. 2/ Station H N.Y.P.O.” and backstamp aux offered at address and not found

on U350 to Italy

5c blue Wash to Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Point Breeze Sta 2c red Wash coil on ad cover w/red and blue type for Atlantic Automobile Gasoline

Reading Term 2 fancy cc: Wolf & Co Advertising Specialties

Southwark 2 fancy cc: A.B. Kirschbaum “The House with the All-Wool Policy”

W Market illus cc: Modern Vulcanizing (tire)

3x2c red Wash (attached and w/selvage) to Germany

West Park 3 Sc398

West Phil 1 1 auxs: circ h/s Phil Inquiry Station and h/s: “This letter was held at the Phila-/delphia, Pa. P.O. because the necessary/postage was not placed on it before/mailing, and is forwarded upon receipt/of postage which was received from/you in response to “Held for Postage”/Notice sent you.”

West Phil 1 2 Sc328

West Phil 1 3 bureau printing on selvage

1c ppc to France, aux: “SURTAXED”; 10 centime Fr postage due

RHODE ISLAND

Newport 3 5c blue Lincoln to Drags Mark, Sweden

Pawtucket 3 5c blue Grant to Jena Germany (forwarded back to NYC)

Pawtucket 4 2c pse and 3c purple Jackson to Switz, vert flag ties lower 3c stamp, also has regular (typical) horizontal flag cancelling indicia

Pc w/aux: “Due [1] Cents” and 1c due, for one letter written into address side

Pawtucket 6 Q2

graphic cc: Potter & Johnston Machine Co (black and red)

Providence 3 Sc330 (5c Jamestown)

Providence 7 auxs: red “HELD FOR POSTAGE” and black “This is the [MAIL/LETTER/PACKAGE] for/ which you sent postage”

Q1: 7/31/13

Providence 8 sdel w/E4 type

Providence 13 Q1: 8/3/13

Graphic cc: Schwarzschild & Sulzberger (S&S logo as in rr car)

on window envelope w/aux: “REFUSED./(N.Y.-I.D.)” and

“(REFUSE)/REFUSED/NEW YORK, N.Y./FEB 18 1914”

Prov Sta B 2c pse + 3c Jackson (253?) to Nord France

Prov East Side 2 Q1: 8/6/13

Prov Elmwood Sta UX16 to Hamburg, Germany

Valley Falls red last day cover cachet w/Sc896 (9-30-40)

Warren 2c stamp added to business reply envelope

Westerly 2 green fancy cc: The Rhode Island

Woonsocket 2 2 x 1c green Fran on forwarded cover

SOUTH CAROLINA

Blackville Sc732

Charleston 1 5c blue Grant to Luzerne Switzerland

Illus cc: G.W. Williams Banking House (bldg)

Columbia on leather postcard

Conway aux: “Conway, S.C. Gateway to the Horry Strand”

Darlington sdel: E6 type

Greenville 1 graphic cc: Traxler-Taylor (as rr crossbucks) also includes “Phone 863” in ad (3-digit phone number)

Sumter 2 aux: purple hand “Returned to Writer Unclaimed”

York 1 WX31 tied to cover

SOUTH DAKOTA

Aberdeen 2 illus cc: The Dakota Farmer (bldg)

Bridgewater Sc732

Custer RP: Observation Bend on Needle Road (shows car)

Deadwood 3 illus cc: Geo.V. Ayres & Co Hardware (bldg)

Lead 2 photo cc: Lassich Bros Grocers (mine, town)

Lennox Sioux Falls RPO mkg

Milbank sdel (E6 type)

5c airmail pse

ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Ree Heights ad: red-rimmed Minneapolis Journal

Sc800

Wagner real photo pc of downtown Wagner

TENNESSEE

Butler 1c M Wash reply card

Chat St Elmo 3c pse revalued to 2c

Clarksville 1 aux: red “Address supplied by/ Direct. Sect./ Central Sta. No. 3/ Chicago, Ill., P.O.

Crossville airport ded: cachet w/ 2+3+3 Wash stamps (7/1/34)

airport ded: cachet w/ C17

airport ded: cachet w/3c Wash + 5c Sc734

Dyer 2c red pse + Sc705

Knoxville 2-color cc: Hotel Imperial (crest and script name)

Memphis Dutro mourning cover

McMinnville ovs red/black ad for McMinnville Mfg Co

Milan no postage; on business reply envelope

TEXAS

Alvord Sc773

Archer City 2 Sc649

Austin 5 Sc329 (2 examples)

Sc549

Bowie 2 aux: “Postage Due 2” w/2c due tied

Brownwood 1 eagle cachet w/Langford backstamp

Brownwood 2 Spirit of ’76 cachet w/Langford backstamp

Clifton Sc644

Clyde 3 x Sc657, red/blue label “VIA/AIR MAIL”

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Corsicana 1 Sc210 type

Dalhart 2 plain cover w/Sc510 (10c yellow Franklin)

Dumas Sc649 w/rwb diagonal and Texas Centennial/Davis Mountain National Park multicolor label

C19; aux :VIA AIR MAIL” and red/wh/blu arrow label

El Paso 3 color ad: Hotel Sheldon allover color back; flap side is front

El Paso Slogan ID 2 x 1c green Wash on r/w/b cachet WWI-era cover

Forney Sc807 (prexie)

Ft Worth SY2 flag misse dstamp, hand-cancelled

Frankston Gladys Adler teddy bear

red and gold star label: Texas Centennial 1836-1936 longhorn

Galveston 8 5c blue Wash to Baden, Switzerland w/cc Swiss Consulate, Galveston, Texas

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Harlingen 1 as recd on German stamp

Jacksonville 1 graphic cc: American Legion (star-in-shield)

Longview 2 aux: “This is the mail for which/you sent postage.”

Memphis 1 illus cc: Memphis Lodge IOOF (symbols)

Meridian Sc732

Mesquite Sc551 and Sc728

O’Donnell Sc726 w/rwb diagonal and Stephen Austin Texas centennial label

Omaha Sc790

on bus reply env w/ 2x2c dues tied

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Paris 2 graphic cc w/swastika for arts and craft movement (in sheet protector)

Pharr enclosure: Xmas card from 3rd Tenn Infy, NGUS

Port Arthur 5c blue Wash to Aba, Finland

Raymondville Sc645

3 airport ded: 1 w/5c pse, 3 w/C12 (11/7/30) all w/cachet

San Antonio 5 cc: “Officer’s Club, Fort Sam Houston, Texas”

Sherman Sc370

Slaton 15c airmail w/566

Sweetwater red cc: Hubbards Clothing (in diamond)

Temple 2 on American Express tag

Terrell 2 sdel w/E6 type; aux: “Fee Claimed by Office of 1st Address”

Turkey 1 ½ rate (stamp)

Waxahachie on ballot for election for Southern Philatelic Assn

Weatherford 1 aux: “Returned to Office By Carrier for/Lack of Time to Deliver.”

White Deer Sc775 w/Mary Bishop flag cachet

Wich Falls Monr Sc807 (prexie)

Illus ad for barber shop (shows haircut and manicure)

UTAH

Ogden 2 on 2c UPU card to St. Louis

Payson C19

Roosevelt 5c TR stamp (557 type)

VERMONT

Bellow Falls 1 illus cc: Vermont Farm Machine Co (factory)

Bradford Sc643

Brattleboro 1 Sc324

2c cut square used for postage on postcard

Burlington 2 illus cc: Northern Supply Co (boy w/bread)

Red illus cc: Northern Supply Co (Indian in canoe)

Chester Sc732

Lyndon Sc736

Lyndonville graphic cc: Kreamy Ice Cream and Sc643

Middlebury 2 Sc627

Montpelier 2 illus cc: VT House of Representatives w/Sc324

North Bennington Sc643

Plymouth 8/3/33: cachet for 10th anniv of Coolidge oath

8/3/33: same w/Sc728 and Sc682

7/4/34: cachet for Coolidge’s 62nd birthday w/ 2 x 1 ½ stamp

7/4/35: cachet for Coolidge’s 63rd birthday w/ 2 x 1 ½ stamp

7/4/35: cachet for Coolidge’s 63rd birthday w/Sc772

7/4/37: cachet for Coolidge’s 65th birthday w/1 ½ stamp

bisect Sc791: w/ mss “no 1c stamp available F.D.C. P.M.”

8/3/37: cachet for 14th anniv of Coolidge oath w/ 1 ½ stamp

Rutland 1 red/black illus cc: A.F. Davis Feed Co (barrel)

Rutland 3 pink allover ad: Tuttle Company Printers

to Netherlands w/ 80 centimes due and 15c Neth dues light orange allover ad: Tuttle Company Printers (diff)

South Royalton Sc727 (2 exmaples)

VIRGINIA

Abingdon 2 pc from draft board reporting candidate disqualified for service as result of physical examination

Appomattox cachet: 4/9/34 cut of surrender w/Sc732 (2 copies)

Cachet: 4/9/35 flag and bugler w/ ½ c Hale and 1c Fr

Buena Vista w/WX36 untied

Cape Charles 2 Sc627

Charlottesville 1 5c blue Grant to Constantinople, Turkey

Charlottesville 2 spec del: E6 and purple aux: “Fee claimed at office of first/Address. Philadelphia, Pa.”

Danville 3 pc w/ad for YMCA, red logo

East Falls Church 2c red Wash pse + stamp domestic (1935-double rate or overpay?)

Fairfax Sc705

Front Royal allover back photo of Harpers Ferry

Greenway Sc732 w/John Tyler cachet 3/29/34 (144th birthday)

Sc772 w/ John Tyler cachet 3/29/36 (146th birthday)

Hot Springs 2c pse + 1c gr Fr + Sc370 to Berne Switzerland

Lynchburg 2 graphic cc: Robert Portner Brewing (Tivoli mark)

Lynchburg 5 2c red Wash coil on Barker Jennings Hardware ad cover

Lynchburg 6 QSL radio card

Newport News 3 Sc370

Newport News 4 on souvenir postcard booklet of Newport News

no stamp: typed “Soldier’s Mail/Mail Censor/U.S. Army Base”

Onley Sc739

Petersburg 2 cc: Knights of Columbus War Activities

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Richmond Sta A as recd on French pc w/Fr stamp

Vienna Sc719 to Switzerland w/mss “Please post on a fast boat”

Warsaw Sc777 and illus cc: Tidewater Radio Service (radio towers)

Williamsburg 2c stamp torn in two and applied

WASHINGTON DC

D13(1) pen env: Smithsonian, Bureau of Am Ethnology

Sc230

pen env: Dept Int, Bureau of Pensions

B14(1) penalty: GPO, Office of Supt of Documents

B14(2) no stamp: on Treasury Dept, Aud for the War Dept penalty c

No stamp: on Dept of Justice penalty card

D13(3) Sc232

Sc230

B14(3) free frank: US Senate M A Hanna

B14(blank) ’98 5c blue pse to England forw to Florence

no stamp: on Treas Dept, Aud for P.O.Dept penalty card

B14(blank) ‘98-00 no stamp: PO Dept, 1st Asst PMG, Money Order System penalty

NDS13 on Treasury Dept #6 penalty envelope

Sta A 1 Sc295

Sta B E4 on 2c Grant lettersheet w/3c pur Jack (Sc221 type) to Vienna Austria

1c gpc + Sc230 to Manchester England

Sta B E14 US Senate: free frank w/stamp because not for official business

Sta B S14(1) illus cc: Nine O’Clock Tea box w/2 x Sc285

U239-type

Sta B B38 Cc: “COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES,/UNITED STATES SENATE.”

2+2+1 stamps to New South Wales, Australia

Pc to British Guiana forwarded to Trinidad

Sta B A38 pc to Germany forw

Sta F pc to Peru

Sta G 1 Sc294

* in dial 3c pse revalued to 2c

A14NDS unlisted on Treasury Dept pc

WASHINGTON STATE

Burlington 1 ½ c rate (coil stamp)

Centralia 1 aux: “Not on RFD No 2, Snohomish, Wash.”

Deer Park 3c Mt Vernon stationery

Everett 1 1c green Fran pse (Philippines) and 1c green Fran stamp Philippines overprint; domestic but cc changed from PI to Everett WA

Everett 2 as recd on pc from Canada w/ stamp

Ferndale C23 on commercial cover

last day: 3/31/40 PM sign w/Sc866

Goldendale 6 airport ded w/C11 and various cachets

Kennewick aux: “Via Air Mail.” w/C7

Mount Vernon multicolor ad: Mount Vernon Evaporated Milk (can)

North Yakima 1 pc w/o stamp; 2c due tied

Olympia 2 very small window envelope w/ 3c purple Wash coil

Pullman 1 OX seal; aux: finger “RETURNED TO WRITER/UNCLAIMED./From Hillyard, Wash” and “MAIL DELAYED FOR WANT/ OF PROPER ADDRESS”

Spokane 1 Sc286

Spokane 3 PO official business penalty w/stamp over fine warning

Small label printed “Imitation Postage” caught, assessed 4c due, paid w/ 2 x 2c dues

Spokane Sta B 1 2 x 1c green Fran on double pc w/real photo inside of Lower Falls at Spokane

Tacoma 1 aux: large hand “Returned to Writer, Unclaimed from Tacoma, Wash. Sep. 6, 1898”

Tacoma 2 Sc286

Tacoma 3 ad: for Tacoma Elk’s Carnival w/Sc295

Walla Walla 1c green Fran and aux: “Held for Postage.” Then 2nd 1c Fran, 2nd flag cancel (first July 18, second July 28) and aux: “This is the article for which/you sent postage.”

Perfin: Cudahy as “CUD/AHY”

Washougal Sc732; auxs: pur “Advise correspondents or publish-/ers of your correct address.”; pur “USE NEW NUMBER/Do Not Fail to Have Mail Addre[ssed to?]/NORTH EAST”; aux machine finger Portland Ore Return to Wrier Unclaimed

Wenatchee 3 multicolor ad: Lindenwood Fruit Farm (red/green apple)

WEST VIRGINIA

Charleston 2 2c pse + 1c + 2c to Paris France

Clarksburg red aux: “To avoid delay in delivery, have your/mail addressed [illegible] No., P.O./Box, Gen’l Delivery, or R.F.D. No. ___”

Glen Dale Sc732

Harpers Ferry cachet: J Brown 75th anniv 10/16/34

cachet: J Brown 75th anniv 10/18/34 green w/Lincoln stamp

1 ½ c rate stamp

Logan 1c green Fran pse + 1c green Fran stamp w/graphic cc: Moore Combination Stores

Morgantown 1 mourning cover

Sistersville 1 1c blue gpc + 1c green Wash (war rate)

Wheeling 3 bicolor cc: Phoenix Line Vance Shoe Co (phoenix rising from fire)

White SS Sta A green cachet: 21st annual convention of the Investment Bankers Assoc of Am Washington Bicentennial Year (domed building)

WISCONSIN

Appleton 2 1c drop rate pse w/mss “forwd” and 1c due stamp (J38)

Ashland color ad: Chase’s Whisky (red shield)

Baraboo Q1

Reg ret recpt

Beaver Dam 1909 Wis Anti TB Assn stamp (tied)

Cc: Roswell mfg co manufacturer of TIGER drills and seeders

Berlin Q1

Blue River 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Brodhead Sc635

Auxs: “Directory Service/Given at Chicago, Ill./Main P.O. No. 31” and “No Such Number No. 44”

Clinton Sc739

Sdel w/Sc732 + E12/E15 and “Fee Claimed…1st Address”

Clintonville illus cc: VFW (medal)

Cudahy 3c pse revalued to 2c, embossed cc

Eau Claire 2 red aux: circular DEFICIENCY OF ADDRESS SUPPLIED BY SAINT PAUL, MINN., P.O.

Elkhorn 1 illus cc: NECarter Curios (Indian Head)

Fond du Lac 5 aux: “This is the mail for which you sent postage.” in violet; 2c red Wash (1912) put on over flag and FdL CDS applied (double due???)

1909 WX tied

Green Bay Sta A 2 2c pse + 1c + 2c to Antwerp Belgium

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Hayward sdel: w/E12 type stamp and 2 x 2c red Wash stamps

Iola 1c gn Fr + Sc717

Janesville 1 1911 WX tied

Addressed to Woodburn IA aux “Missent to Woodbine, Ia.”

Kenosha Sc370

2c red Wash on ppc to Budapest Hungary then forwarded in Hungary

LaCrosse 1 homemade SpAm patriotic: small sunburst sticker w/ rwb Am flag inside, tied

LaCrosse 2 photo ad: A.O. Sletten, dealers in furniture, stoves, ranges, undertaking & embalming (scenes of LaCrosse)

LaCrosse 3 aux: h/s purple oval“Steamer St. Paul/3 UP Trip/1909/W.B. Bowman, Clerk”

sdel: w/E6 type

Madison 1 2 x Sc288 to London England (to Louise Phelps Kellogg)

Madison 2 odd perforated envelope

Madison 3 as recd on German pc w/German stamp

aux: “MISSENT TO STA. E”

5c blue Lincoln to Paris France

cc: University Club/Madison, Wisconsin

Mayville seal: Lutheran Sanitarium Wheat Ridge Colo. (untied)

Medford seal: “A Bright Christmas” (tied)

Menomonie Q2: 8/10/13

Milw Sta A 2 Sc281 to Baiern Deutschland

Milw Sta A 3 color cc: Sterling Motor Truck Co

Overpaid: 2c + 1c on 1918 postcard

Milw W Allis 2 cachet: “An Old Timer” w/bicycle

Monroe 1 2c red Wash pse +1c gn Wash + 2c red Wash to Switzerland

Muscoda Sc736

Oconto 4 x Sc551

Oshkosh Sc304 (5c blue Lincoln) to Innsbruck Austria

Pc aux: “HELD FOR POSTAGE” and “This is the mail for which/you sent postage.” And 1c green Franklin over flag

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Platteville Q1

Plymouth 1922 WX tied

Portage 1 Tusa Peak Mining Co (full enclosure in sheet protector)

Prairie du Chien pc w/stamp collar

2c red pse to Munich Germany; aux pur “Returned for Postage.” And 3c pur Wash over flag; cancelled with PdC duplex

Ripon 2 1c M Wash reply card

Ripon 3 pc w/WX31 tied and aux: “Delivery delayed on account/of incomplete address.”

Superior 2 on War Dept penalty pc: draft classification

Washburn Sc732

Sc729

Watertown 1912 WX tied

West De Pere 1 ½ c rate (stamp)

Whitewater 1 graphic cc: Century Pen (nibs as sunflower)

WYOMING

Cheyenne 1c green old Fran on pc to Mexico

1c green Fran plate number [star]5313

Greybull 3c pse revalued to 2c

Rawlins 1 2 x 2 red Wash and untied 1911 Federation of Wyoming Women’s Clubs Christmas seal

Sheridan 2 auxs: “Not for Carrier” and multi-line aux that includes “to insure PROMPT delivery”

Sundance Sc703

Sc732

EXPOSITIONS

USPS Paris Expo on 10s French gpc

on 10s stamped pc

Buffalo Pan Am Sc295 to Germany

“ (involute) Sc294

MILITARY STATIONS

Montgomery AL SB rwb flag cc (8 copies, varying conditions)

Augusta GA HanB aux: “Due __ cts” and 1c postage due

Fort Riley KS Knights of Columbus War Activities (graphic cc)

Alexandria LA BB rwb flag cc

Ayer MA DB V14 Sc702

Ayer MA FDB A38 Sc725

Fort Harrison MT Sc866 on hand-painted cover (leaves motif)

Sc871

last day pony express cachet w/Sc894 7-4-1940

red flag cc: Last Day cover w/Sc895

Hempstead NY MB red/blue graphic cc: “War Camp Community Service”

N Rochelle NY FSB rwb flag cc

On RPPC of soldiers at Fort Slocum

Greenville SvB 2+2+1 stamps w/”Due 1 Cent.” aux and 1c postage due stamp

Spartansburg WB rwb flag cc

Chatt TN FB red and blue cc: YMCA “with the colors”

Chatt TN GB sdel: 3c pur Wash + 10c yellow Fran

Chatt TN MB1 registered w/ 10c yellow-orange Frank stamp

on rp card of soldiers “In Line for Mess”

Newpt News VA HB on ret reg recpt

severely dropped dial (2 copies)

Fort Warren WY 1 ½c rate (1c Fran + ½c Hale)

on M Wash reply card

NAVAL STATIONS

Grt Lks IL GLRS 3c and C2 (16c) to Ellsworth PA

NY Pelham Nav Sta Q5 on YMCA cover to France

MILITARY POST OFFICES

Vera Cruz mixed franking: 5c Mexican + 2c red Wash stamps)

on 5c Mexican “tarjeta carta”

USAPO(2) censor mark (1 red circle[officer’s mail], 1 purple circle[soldier mail active service])

USAPO(701) purple circle censor mark[officers mail]

white env w/ red/blue flag cc blue censor mark

purple circ censor mark w/cc: 416th Railroad Telegraph Battalion, S.C.N.A. AEF

USAPO( ) blue circle censor mark

USAPO(702up) purple circle and black square base censor mark[soldiers mail]

USAPO(702down) black square base censor mark; tobacco thanks (2 copies)

pinkish circle censor mark[soldiers mail]

USAPO(705 down) purple circle censor mark[red printed “SOLDIERS MAIL”] (2 copies)

USAPO(717) purple circle censor mark[typed “Soldier’s Mail.”]

NAVAL SHIP P.O.

USS Chicago 3 x Sc740, 10/27/1934 green Navy Day cachet, red/blue anchor border

green cc: The Men of the Navy/wish you one and all/ A Happy New Year/ in 1935” 12/28/34

USS Florida first day Sc683 despite Langford

unsevered UY6, flag on both parts

airmail w/C12

USS Melville Sc618 w/blue cachet: “U.S. Navy Second to None”

Sc732

Sc688 on multicolor flag 6/14/1934 Flag Day cachet

Sc737 on multicolor flag 6/14/1934 “Our Flag Our Navy” “’Teddy’ Roosevelt Chapter” (same as USS Texas)

Airmail w/C12

USS Pennsylvania Sc718, gold ink in flag cancel, cachet “U.S.S. PENNSYLVANIA/FLAGSHIP U.S. FLEET/1932/PARTICIPATING XTH OLYMPIAD” and ship design

USS Penn at Sea Sc702

USS San Francisco Sc732

Photo cachet: 1934 cover; photo is from 1935 so applied later

Pony Express cachet 4/13/1935: rider arriving design and “Arrived at SANFRANCISCO, CAL./at about 6 P M Apr.13/Distance 2095 Miles/Time consumed 239 hrs.”

USS Texas 10/27/31: Navy Day orange cowboy in star logo, blue and red plane, ship, and balloon logos, Sc557 (5c blue TR)

orange cachet: 9/28/32 San Francisco Harbor Day

pink cachet: 9/28/32 San Francisco Harbor Day w/Sc718

11/11/32: Armistice Day cachet w/Sc706 (1 1/2c bicen Wash)

7/7/33: blue cowboy and July 4th star logo, Sc727, h/s: “RECEIVED TOO LATE/FOR PRINTED CACHET AND/CANCELLATION”

Sc555 type 3c Lincoln, 2/12/1934 cachet: Lincoln bust and ship and “Lincoln’s/Birthday/U.S.S./TEXAS”

cachet: “U.S.S.Kearsarge/a Federal Corvette/which was sent to European/waters, under the command/of Capt. John A. Winslow,/to watch Confederate pri-/vateers she caught/the ALABAMA in the/harbor of Cherbourg,/ France, and sank her in the/English Channel/JUNE 15, 1864”

Sc736 6/14/1934 Flag Day cachet: rwb flag and “OUR FLAG/OUR NAVY ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt Chapter” (same as USS Melville)

USS Wh Scout Flt Sc685 (4c Taft) w/photo cachet of Taft and “FIRST DAY ISSUE” crossed out

USS Whitmey Via Air Mail chcet w/ red airplane and Sc713 (8c Wash bicen)

Dest Squad No3 bottom half Sc751 (1c NP sheet)

Sc736

Sc740 and Sc741

STREETCAR RPOs

Boston Circuit 2 on postcard w/2c bisected stamp

Tuttle cover w/1c War dept (O114 type)

Boston Circuit 3 to “Elmore Plantation, Porto Rico”

On UY4

Phil & Wphil 5c blue Grant to England forw to Germany

Pittsburg B38 graphic cc: Felt & Tarrant Mfg Co Comptometer

Pittsburgh A38 WX13 not tied

Rochester WS 1c blue Fran + 1c blue Fran pse to Ontario

St Louis 1 1c Jeff gpc + 1c green Fran to Dresden, Germany

RMS and TERMINAL RPOS

Kansas City TRPO rwb flag cachet with “LONG MAY SHE WAVE”

Hoboken NJ TRPO Sc737

Jersey City CTRPO 3c Wash over RAILROAD BUSINESS indicia

Albany NY TRPO Sc705 (2 copies)

NYNY TOGCSta Sc649

Phil Brd St TRPO UC1

SEAPOST

No2 San Lorenzo Sc682

Sc683

2c red Wash + 3c pur Linc to Salusso, Italy

TERRITORIES

Nome H14 real ppc: photo of Jerome Hunter in Alaska

Nome A14 1c pse + 1c green Fran w/ typed “Fairbanks Airplane Corporation,/AIR MAIL.” Fairbanks backstamp

Honolulu B14 to New Zealand w/5c Lincoln

aux: h/s “PACKET BOAT”

ovs pc w/SS Mongolia Orchestra Program

Honolulu H14 3c to Egypt, Cook’s Post Office Markings, forwarded

5c pse to Berlin, Germany

Sherman postal reply card

Honolulu A14 2c pc to Punjab India w/ Indian censor marking

Pago Pago 1 imperf 2c red Wash, aux: hand w/ “RETURNED TO WRITER UNCLAIMED”

Pago Pago 2 backstamp on Tonga tin can mail

Christiansted 6 x 2c red Wash coil (Sc?) and “Par Avion/By Air Mail” label

airmail w/Sc650

Manati PR 2c red Wash + 2 x Sc629 and aux: “Received without contents/G.P.O.N.Y.”

San Juan ovate mourning cover

Manila 2 8c + 2c Phil stamp to Zurich, Switzerland

Manila EL PI244-type (Magellan); passed by censor marking

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