US Scott 220 1890 fancy cancel incomplete purple letter "B" or ??

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

The cancel on this stamp appears to be an incomplete letter “B.” It is purple and narrower than most of the “B” fancy cancels.The faint ink dot in the margin above the first "S" of STATES is a printing positioning dot.

This is one of about 8,500 copies of Scott 219, 219D and 220x that were in a hoard I inherited. Most of the fancy cancels in that hoard are present in duplicate, but this is the only copy of this cancel. The origin of this cancel is unknown and doesn’t appear to match any of the examples in the books on fancy cancels by Sol Salkind and James Cole.

This stamp has never been in a collection. It was among several thousand stamps collected and bound by string and thread in bundles containing 100 stamps each. They were collected from businesses at Union City, Indiana, and possibly across the state line in Union City, Ohio, in the early 1890s. The stamps accompanied 11-12,000 similarly bundled cut squares and all were probably bundled at the time of their collection. The vast majority of the material was very well protected from damage and aging for over a century.

Most of the readable postmarks are from 1891 to 1893, with the majority from 1892. 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 were from Indiana, Ohio and the surrounding states.

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Item Location

Indiana, United States

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