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| | Chapter 19 -- $1 Rush Lamp |
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Fig. 19-1. (select any pic to enlarge) |
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< Fig. 19-2 Fig. 19-3 > |
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Fig. 19-6 |
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< Fig. 19-11 (top) (bottom) > |
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Fig. 19-13 |
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Bonus 19-14 |
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| | $1, 30c and 9c stamps on eight-ounce (200-228 g) 1st-class large envelope, Sept. 10, 198?. Another example of the Pitney-Bowes roller cancelation without readable year date. A $1.39 postage amount only matches one first-class rate: 20c first ounce, 17c each additional ounce (Nov. 1981 - mid-Feb. 1985). The "SEP" in cancel could only occur in 1982, 1983, or 1984. 1983 is the least likely year to assign, because Sept. 10 was a Saturday and not usually a mailing day for apparent office mail like this. It is tempting to assign 1982, earliest of the remaining choices, because of the "all-Americana" stamps use. But interestingly, the Great American 30c replacement stamp was issued only eight days prior to Sept. 10, 1984 -- most post offices still had only Americana-design 30c stamps at the time.
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Bonus 19-15.
$1 stamp and Great American 7c stamp on six-ounce (142-170 g) 1st-class large envelope, July 9, 1985. (The envelope is so large that its image was cropped at left and bottom.) |
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Bonus 19-16 |
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| | Nine $1 stamps with 10c and 2c stamps on parcel remnant, May 25, 1984. While there's nothing left here of the parcel besides the stamps area (assuming others were not affixed elsewhere), the corrugated cardboard material in conjunction with the high postage does suggest a parcel rather than a high-fee service like Express Mail or registration. Assuming no other services were involved, only one rate equals $9.12: ordinary Parcel Post to Zone 5 for over 60 but not over 61 pounds (27.4 - 27.9 kg). Yet higher-weight parcels, especially those approaching the upper limit of what the USPS accepted (70 lbs. or 32 kg), have to be considered seldom mailed in contrast to lower weights. Then it would be left to find a reasonable insurance amount or other suitable service fee which, when subtracted from the total postage, allowed a match with a lower (i.e., more-likely) parcel-post rate. (These scenarios would be explored even though any additional-service endorsements were cut off.) |
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Bonus 19-17 |
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| | Two $1 stamps on certified, return-receipt requested one-ounce 1st-class letter, Sept. 29, 1988. 25c paid for postage, 85c paid the certified fee and 90c paid for the basic return-receipt fee. Although this looks like an ordinary commercial use, it is still a "late use", as the first Great American $1 replacement was issued two years prior in September 1986. All rates involved, however, didn't begin until April 1988. |
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Bonus 19-18 |
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| | Color study of used $1 stamps (typical selection, not meant to be exhaustive), to demonstrate the wide range of shades possible. Some lighter-shaded stamps, especially those on parcel remnants such as shown earlier, could be faded from exposure to sunlight or fluorescent lighting. |
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Contents (c) 2009,
Ronald Blanks. Contact by e-mail: rblanks_stamps@yahoo.com |
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