I'm very pleased to present my Ben Franklin stamp, used on card from Pago Pago, Samoa. This was a US Territory in 1906, and a very elusive cancel to find! The card has great address script writing, only could wish the postmark was to the left of the stamp, but you can't have everything!
Prior to this, the only examples I had seen were philatelic in nature, and there's a single stamp on a piece with an equal cancel, for $75 on eBay right now. My eBay search agent uncovered this one about a week ago. I put in a pretty high bid on my snipe software and waited. I was overjoyed to find out I won it for $14.50. Patience does pay!
Now the last possession I need is Canal Zone 4 on cover. There were a few examples on eBay within the past year but they went for obscene multiple hundreds of dollars!
But this one surely makes my week. Photos from the auction.
re: Almost Completed My Territorials! Happy Dance Time!
The card has a nice destination also. Gabriola Island (near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island) probably had a population of at most a couple of hundred at the time. (Based on Wikipedia saying the population consisted of 17 families in 1874, and had grown to 400 by 1950.) I didn't see a receiving cancel. Such a cancel would be quite scarce, with a rarity factor D (on a A to E scale).
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