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Figure 12 An 1887 damaged cover from Dora IN to Philadelphia, damaged due to coin –was this coin
money, or the “quoin,” the pigeon holed cabinet into which clerks sorted mail? A perfect strike of the
three-line, full line background back stamp.
eration, 1880 to 1902, in a variety of types and sub- traceable backstamps, too, to enforce timeliness and
types; however, those without crosshatch lines in the care as well as enhance postal investigation when nec-
background were meant to be used as origin mark- essary.
ings. Those with background lines, full or dotted, were
Philadelphia paralleled New York City’s ornate, gothic,
to be used for backstamping.
entwined registry backstamps by creating an almost
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While all of the above are three-line markings, a four- hopelessly ornate floral registry security marking It
line origin rectangle was used briefly around 1903, is a most attractive marking too, and rare, being used
and a variety of this ended the series as it had begun, for about six months, a third of the time of the previ-
without an outer rectangular rim, about 1906. ously mentioned “rare” 1860’s and 1870’s rate com-
binations.
Backstamps-fancy, with a flourish
With the 1875 rate change
came specific rules for uni-
form registration mark-
ings. Another key policy
change required pink-pur-
plish backstamps to be ap-
plied beginning in 1879.
With the latter regulation,
local hometown pride en-
couraged the use of distinc-
tive hand stamps to indi-
cate registered letter rout-
ing. Origin markings on
the front would now be
rectangular, as we’ve seen,
but now there were to be
Figure 13 A combination style returned cover, a new-style 1890 double circle security
backstamp outgoing, and an 1891 old-style rectangle used on the return back to
sender.
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