W120 cut square UPSS Die 47 fancy cancel Pittsburgh double oval numeral 4

Item Specifics

Country

United States

Catalog Number

W120

Stamp Type

Back of Book (Other) - Wrapper

Condition

Used

Stamp Format

Single

Topic

People - Inventors

Year of Issue

1874

Item Description

45x40mm. This cut square is Scott W120, blue indicium on wove manila wrapper paper. The United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) identifies this as Die 47. This cut square does not include any identifiable part of a watermark. The cancel is a double oval from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the numeral 4 in the center. The paper has a crease that crosses the top portion of the indicium.

This item has never been mounted in a collection. It was among 11-12,000 cut squares collected from Union City, Indiana, businesses. Although a few cut squares may have been collected across the state line in Union City, Ohio, I have found no evidence of that. Most of the readable postmarks are from 1891 to 1893, with the majority from 1892. However, there were also postmarks from the 1880s.

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 200 miles of Union City.

A significant amount of mail originated in Pittsburgh. The C. C. C. & St. L. (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railroad travel distance between Pittsburgh and Union City via Columbus, Ohio, was 295 miles according to a 1910 railways guide.

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Item Location

Indiana, United States

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