U294 cut square, UPSS Die 83, 1892 Union City, Indiana partial CDS, no killer

Item Specifics

Country

United States

Catalog Number

U294

Stamp Type

Postal Stationery

Condition

Used

Stamp Format

Single

Topic

People - Politicians

Year of Issue

1887

Item Description

36x43mm. This cut square was among thousands of stamps and cut squares collected from businesses at Union City, Indiana, in the early 1890s. Most of the readable postmarks in this hoard are from the period 1891 to 1893. This one is dated July 19, 1892. Most of the 11-12,000 cut squares have the two-cent green Washington indicium, but a few hundred are the one-cent Franklin indicium. The Scott catalog number for this white paper example is U294. The United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) identifies this indicium as Die 83. This copy includes part of a UPSS watermark 8. There is some light soiling and two faint yellowish stains below the indicium and another yellowish area to the right of the circular date stamp .

The stamps in the hoard had been soaked from the envelopes around the time of their collection. The stamps and cut squares were then sorted and tied tightly with string and sewing thread into bundles of 100 each. That process protected most of the items from damage and aging for over a century. I inherited and began unpacking the bundles in 2000. None of these sale items from the hoard has ever been in a collection.

Mail was coming from all over the country to Union City via three railroads, but much of it seemed to be originating in 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.

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Seller

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04/11/2016

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Item Location

Indiana, United States

Ships To

United States

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