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VERY FINE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE CUMBERLAND, MAINE, PRESS-PRINTED DATESTAMP ON A COVER WITH THE 1863 2-CENT BLACK JACK.
The Cumberland press-printed postmarks are discussed by Sterling T. Dow in Maine Postal History and Postmarks and by James W. Milgram in an article in the Chronicle (May 2005, pp. 90-95). There are five types. This type (Dow Ty. 5), and perhaps all of the others, were printed by Horace I. Gray. Examples of this type are also known with 1c and 3c 1861 Issues on cover where the stamp is not tied and is separately cancelled by manuscript, as well as one tied (offered in our 2011 Rarities sale). Milgram states that the Ty. 5 datestamp was printed prior to the stamps being applied, which may or may not have been the case here, though the 1864 date written entirely within the margins of the stamp could also indicate a precancel that was applied to each stamp in the sheet before application to the covers.
Illustrated in the Allen book on p. 33 (Image)
EXTREMELY FINE. A REMARKABLE PRINTED PRECANCEL ON A WRAPPER -- ONE EXAMPLE EACH OF TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS ARE RECORDED, THIS BEING THE FINER OF THE TWO. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POSTAL STATIONERY AND CANCELLATION-RELATED ITEMS IN THE FAUST COLLECTION.
The precancelled wrappers were produced by A. B. Wade, postmaster of South Bend, Indiana. Wade was a publisher of account books for keeping post office records. Two differently worded versions are known, each represented by one recorded example. The other, which is slightly toned, is shown in an exhibit of Black Jack postal stationery available at http://www.upss.org/assets/images/pdf/blackjack%20exhibit.pdf ).
Ex Dr. Rorke (not part of the 1988 Christie's auction -- from a group sold later by Dr. Rorke through Siegel) (Image)