1908 Picture Postcard with Christmas Day King Edward, Manitoba Postmark, depicting the Banff Springs Hotel, mailed from Ladner BC on DEC.21.1908 (c.d.s. ties 1c Québec Tercentenary stamp) to King Edward Manitoba, with broken circle receiver dated DEC.25.1908 (Christmas Day, with day and month inverted). This is the new earliest reported date for this postmark, from a post office that opened on OCT.15.1908, had the datestamp proofed on NOV.6 of the same year, and so this is very soon after. Light corner creases, still a great strike of a desirable postmark. (Image)

Est $ 50