US 220 1890 geometric cancel smaller round split in half, pink staining of paper

Item Specifics

Country

United States

Catalog Number

220

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

Used

Stamp Format

Single

Topic

People - Politicians

Year of Issue

1890

Item Description

This is Scott number 220. The paper has pinkish areas. The cancel is a circular design with a single cut across the center.The Salkind book, U. S. Cancels 1890-1900, identifies this type as CA-HC2-1 (page 3).

This stamp has never been mounted. in a collection. It is one of many thousands of off-paper stamps and cut squares collected from businesses at Union City, Indiana, in the early 1890s.

Around the time of their collection, the Union City hoard of stamps had been soaked from the envelopes, and then the stamps and cut squares were sorted and tied tightly with string and sewing thread into bundles of 100 each. I inherited and began unpacking the bundles in 2000. With few exceptions, the tightly packed stamps and cut squares had been very well protected from damage for over a century.

Although mail was coming to Union City from all over the country, much of it seemed to be coming from small cities and towns in Indiana and Ohio and to a lesser degree from smaller communities in other nearby states. In other words, most of the fancy and geometric cancels probably originated within 150 to 200 miles of Union City. Many of the cut squares have partial circular date stamps that identify the post offices associated with the accompanying obliterator designs. I have a note to myself indicating this cancel is similar to that of North Baltimore, Ohio, but have lost the link to the source of that information.

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Item Location

Indiana, United States

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