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Nice SON (Socked on the nose) cancel!
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Otherwise known as SON CDS. Socked on the nose, Circular Date Stamp.
To collectors of used stamps they add value and a symmetrical beauty even to a
rather unattractive stamps such as this one. I'm constantly looking to upgrade
an ordinary used stamp with a SON CDS. If I have it mint I will also keep the
used SON CDS.
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But, ya gotta display it upside down!
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Back in the day, almost every issue of Herst's Outbursts came with some sort of special deal; I remember a buck/two for a short strip of USPOD 'training' stamps, for example.
Subscribers to the Outbursts were required to provide SASEs (self-addressed stamped envelopes) ... we sent a half-dozen at a time, and he let you know when he'd used your last cover.
One time, he offered a template (think a thick L-shaped bit of oak tag) that would help you correctly place the postage on your SASE to ~guarantee that it would arrive back home with the stamp socked-on-the-nose.
Brilliant!
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who still places what little outbound postage he uses so that the ugly shpritzy town'n'date will land on the stamp)
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Ikey, you're further motivating me to do something I've been resolved to do for some time.
My friend Bill Schultz, who noticed me gazing at the oversize images of DPOs, hanging in the West Chester Historical Society's recently closed exhibit of Chester County postal history, casually mentioned something about another 62 impending PO discontinuations in PA.
One of these (I'm sure) is Limekiln, a PO in an unincorporated village about 3 miles due South of my house.
To complete on my resolution, I'm heading down tomorrow to drop a handful of letters there for mailing and will plead for local postmarks.
I'll take a couple of snapshots when I'm in 'town'.
-Paul
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OK, PigDoc, here you go:
During the Second World War, Canadian Flower-Class corvettes were named after Canadian towns. I included this stamp in my Battle of the Atlantic exhibit. The Brits named their corvettes after flowers. Believe it or not, one British corvette was to have been named Pansy. Which means that British tars would have been able to wear caps emblazoned with "Pansy". I wonder why they changed their minds?
Here's an original photo of Kamsack:
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"... one British corvette was to have been named Pansy. Which means that British tars would have been able to wear caps emblazoned with "Pansy". I wonder why they changed their minds?"
In hearings after several collisions at sea, an admiral remarked that under-staffing on US Navy vessels had resulted in sailors working over one hundred hours per week, at sea, week after week.
A flag officer testified that the brass had responded by ordering a study.
Senator John McCain (from my fallible memory): "What I am saying, admiral, is that if you already know that sailors are working more than one hundred hours per week, you do not need a study."
Q/ Did they study the "Pansy" question before they made their decision?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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An interesting question, IkeyPikey. And, it turns out, there really was a committee involved!
From One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military During World War II, by Paul Jackson, published in 2010. (The image is from the Google Books website):
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re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
Nice SON (Socked on the nose) cancel!
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re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
Otherwise known as SON CDS. Socked on the nose, Circular Date Stamp.
To collectors of used stamps they add value and a symmetrical beauty even to a
rather unattractive stamps such as this one. I'm constantly looking to upgrade
an ordinary used stamp with a SON CDS. If I have it mint I will also keep the
used SON CDS.
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08:26:34pm
re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
But, ya gotta display it upside down!
=P
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re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
Back in the day, almost every issue of Herst's Outbursts came with some sort of special deal; I remember a buck/two for a short strip of USPOD 'training' stamps, for example.
Subscribers to the Outbursts were required to provide SASEs (self-addressed stamped envelopes) ... we sent a half-dozen at a time, and he let you know when he'd used your last cover.
One time, he offered a template (think a thick L-shaped bit of oak tag) that would help you correctly place the postage on your SASE to ~guarantee that it would arrive back home with the stamp socked-on-the-nose.
Brilliant!
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who still places what little outbound postage he uses so that the ugly shpritzy town'n'date will land on the stamp)
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re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
Ikey, you're further motivating me to do something I've been resolved to do for some time.
My friend Bill Schultz, who noticed me gazing at the oversize images of DPOs, hanging in the West Chester Historical Society's recently closed exhibit of Chester County postal history, casually mentioned something about another 62 impending PO discontinuations in PA.
One of these (I'm sure) is Limekiln, a PO in an unincorporated village about 3 miles due South of my house.
To complete on my resolution, I'm heading down tomorrow to drop a handful of letters there for mailing and will plead for local postmarks.
I'll take a couple of snapshots when I'm in 'town'.
-Paul
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re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
OK, PigDoc, here you go:
During the Second World War, Canadian Flower-Class corvettes were named after Canadian towns. I included this stamp in my Battle of the Atlantic exhibit. The Brits named their corvettes after flowers. Believe it or not, one British corvette was to have been named Pansy. Which means that British tars would have been able to wear caps emblazoned with "Pansy". I wonder why they changed their minds?
Here's an original photo of Kamsack:
Bob
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re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
"... one British corvette was to have been named Pansy. Which means that British tars would have been able to wear caps emblazoned with "Pansy". I wonder why they changed their minds?"
In hearings after several collisions at sea, an admiral remarked that under-staffing on US Navy vessels had resulted in sailors working over one hundred hours per week, at sea, week after week.
A flag officer testified that the brass had responded by ordering a study.
Senator John McCain (from my fallible memory): "What I am saying, admiral, is that if you already know that sailors are working more than one hundred hours per week, you do not need a study."
Q/ Did they study the "Pansy" question before they made their decision?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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re: No half measures...you either like this kind of postmark or you do not.
An interesting question, IkeyPikey. And, it turns out, there really was a committee involved!
From One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military During World War II, by Paul Jackson, published in 2010. (The image is from the Google Books website):
Bob
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