Postal Cancel Art

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Holiday sleigh stamp on blue-gray card, cancelled "Christmas on the Square", Cambridge IL, December 2 & 3 2000.  This is a very precise cancellation; the cancel touches only the very furthest extremity of the stamp.

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Greetings stamp depicting tree and ornaments, on green card.  Cancelled "Millennium Tree Station", Woodland Park CO, December 24 2000.  This is one of Jennifer's favorites, because the "2000" is nearly perfectly superimposed on an ornament.

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This one is worth zooming in for a closer look.  Greetings stamp depicting stocking with gifts, on white card.  Cancelled "Santa's Workshop Station", North Pole NY, December 5 2000.  The bear, gift, and greenery on the stamp and cancel are near-perfect matches.  This is quite a charming one, I think.

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Se-tenant block of four holiday plants stamps on gray card.  Cancelled "Christmas in Warrensburgh", Holiday Station, Warrensburg NY, December 3 2000.

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6 x Christmas 1962 stamps on green card. The stamps depict a Christmas wreath, as does the "Winesburg Station" cancel from Clyde OH, December 8 2000.

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These are significant to me.  I live in Thousand Oaks, and the city offered a pictorial cancellation "Celebrating Stamp Collecting Month".  I prepared four postcards of Thousand Oaks, and affixed a Stamp Collecting stamp to each.  The cancels could have turned out a bit better (the ink was not allowed to dry before the clerk stacked the cards) but they are still meaningful to me.

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