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Help Wanted Id'ing Custom House Canx - What City?

 
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Posted 02/22/2025   10:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add StateRevs to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
All,

Making my way through a large lot that included a bunch of custom house canx. Found this example not listed in Alfano's TAR catalog.

Note the rosettes at the left and right sides - a key ID feature not found on any of the canx I was able to find published in TAR or the later update.



Any chance anyone has an example that shows the city and can provide a scan for future reference?

Thanks in advance!
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Posted 02/23/2025   3:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I will look later and see if I have a match.
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Posted 02/23/2025   4:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add StateRevs to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you!!!!
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Posted 02/23/2025   9:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Alas, I don't have this design, despite having a pretty decent collection. And since some locations had multiple cancellations, we can't be sure where it was used. Perhaps someone else will have one.
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Posted 02/23/2025   9:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add StateRevs to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for looking!

156 years later and we have no record of it.



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Posted 02/24/2025   12:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stallzer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Pretty sure it's Philadelphia. I have a couple I can post later tonight.

Edit - I was sure I posted it here. No rosettes though.

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http://goscf.com/t/41713&whichpage=...rms=Stallzer
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Edited by stallzer - 02/24/2025 12:50 pm
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Posted 02/24/2025   12:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The closest cancel to this that I have is from Philadelphia, but it says so at the top after "custom house". But it would not surprise me if it came from there, they did have a number of different cancels.
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