Post by krash on Sept 6, 2013 6:41:11 GMT -5
This is a new cover that I purchased this month. This is the sellers image so I can't make out the mailing address but I enjoyed the multi colored graphics on the advertisement. Also, it interested me because of the cancel. It is a great early example of the Barr-Fyke machine cancel.
Machine cancel society's machine cancel finders' results for the Barr-Fyke:
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Machine cancel society's machine cancel finders' results for the Barr-Fyke:
Quote from this site: swansongrp.com/macht201.html
Your machine cancel was made by a machine sold by the Barr-Fyke Machine Company of Kansas City, Missouri. Another form of the machine's impression has a killer made up of horizontal bars. The presence of arcs in the dial can also be an indicator of the Barr-Fyke machine.
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The Barr-Fyke Machine Company of Kansas City, Missouri made a small number of machines. These cancellations appear from about 1897 to about 1905. They are very distinctive, and are not common.
(you know me better than that by now eh? It was just pure luck indeed!)