re: Please help with information about this unusual Star postmark
That particular cancel is not displayed in the Cole book (I checked). The Stamp Smarter database does seem to be more exhaustive, though and worth a look.
Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't 27 Mar 2018 10:03:14am
re: Please help with information about this unusual Star postmark
Many cancellers from this era were hand curved from boxwood; they would wear and break over time before new ones were carved. As such, the resulting cancels evolved in size and shape over time; matching cancels can often be challenging; a bit of imagination helps!
Don
re: Please help with information about this unusual Star postmark
Thank you for the help. As a learner, the stamp smarter database is a great gift to me. There was one pictured on a cover, from Texas, w/o a cole number, that was most like this segmented star.
