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Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Bold and complete strike of a very scarce rounded-corner boxed cancel. It almost always is found on 25-cent denominations, very rarely on low denominations.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co..
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Three strikes from the Pacific Mail steamship Alaska.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Three strikes of Pacific Mail Steamship Co. single-line cancels, two of the ship MONTANA and one of the ship GREAT REPUBLIC. Mixed-ship occurences, while documented, are very scarce, with only a handful known to exist.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the Pacific Mail steamship Japan.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the Pacific Mail steamship 'America'.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the Pacific Mail steamship Oregonian. This ship used a straightline cancel with a large block sans-serif font, unlike the other ships, which used a thinner serifed font.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the steamship AMERICA.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. ship GREAT REPUBLIC. Stamp also has a strongly recut frame line at upper left.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the Pacific Mail steamship Oregonian. This ship used a straightline cancel with a large block sans-serif font, unlike the other ships, which used a thinner serifed font.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the Pacifc Mail steamship China.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from steamship GREAT REPUBLIC.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Three strikes from the steamship ARIZONA.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Three strikes from the Pacific Mail steamship Alaska.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Two strikes from the Pacific Mail steamship Henry Chauncey.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. 2 strikes of HENRY CHAUNCEY in blue, plus 5 strikes of RISING STAR in red. Very rare, one of only a handful of multi-ship examples known, and the only reported example with cancels in 2 different colors.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Double strikes of the 'ALASKA' steamship cancel.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Three strikes of either the first or last letter (presumably due to overlapping stamps) of an 'ALASKA' straight-line handstamp.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Seven strikes of Pacific Mail Steamship Co. single-line cancels, three of the ship ALASKA, and four of the ship ARIZONA. The thought is that these were canceled at a central office, and because the two words look similar (both begin and end with A, and are only one letter different in length), a clerk grabbed the wrong handstamp, realized their error, and then re-canceled with the correct handstamp. Mixed-ship occurences, while documented, are very scarce, with only a handful known to exist.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Single strike from the steamship MONTANA, one of the more scarce Pacific Mail steamships.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Multiple strikes from the Pacific Mail Steamship 'China'. The color of the cancels is barely discernable on the front of the stamp, but the cancels were struck so heavily that their impressions are readable in the paper and the cancel actually breaks through the paper in several places.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. 2008 APEX certificate. Strike from the Pacific Mail steamship America.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Top frame line doubled. Very rare single-line handstamp from the steamship GREAT REPUBLIC. This cancel is much more scarce than the one usually found on R88a, from the ship AMERICA.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co..
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Beautiful contrasting color strike from the Pacific Mail steamship 'Rising Star'.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Two strikes from the Pacific Mail Co. steamship HENRY CHAUNCEY.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Two magenta strikes from the Pacific Mail steamship HENRY CHAUNCEY.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Two partial strikes of handstamps from the Pacific Mail Steamship RISING STAR. If the strikes were complete, this would be a $150-250 item.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Two strikes from the Pacific Mail steamship Rising Star.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Three strikes of blue handstamp from the Pacific Mail steamship Rising Star.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Two strikes from the Pacific Mail steamship 'Henry Chauncy'.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Three strikes from the steamship OCEAN QUEEN.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Beautiful stamp with large XF margins, featuring 3 strikes of a very scarce handstamp cancel from the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. ship 'HENRY CHAUNCEY'.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Wonderful stamp exhibiting six strikes from the Pacific Mail steamship 'Rising Star'.
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.. Four strikes of 'Ocean Queen' cancel. Ex-Morrissey.