Sometimes It’s Worth Taking a Closer Look…
Wading through a stockbook of 1st issue revenue stamps this morning, and I stumbled across this 10-cent Bill of Lading (R32c) with a muddy indeterminate red cancel. I nearly just passed it by, but the ink voids in the cancel looked unusual, so I thought I’d run it through retroreveal. Lo and behold, it revealed a very interesting cancel, one I’ve not seen before, from the firm of Tong Soong & Co., San Francisco. The interesting voids that had caught…