U1401s

Transportation

 Elevator 1900s

Fred Collins Signature

Collins Cover Announcement 

ELEVATOR 

Transportation Series

This COLLINS cover can be considered totally different from the usual format. I'll try to describe it as best I can.

The cover is done in vertical format and the hand-painted cachet is in the shape of a large "L". Within the cachet, there is depicted a seven-story building. To the far left is an elevator shaft running the full height of the building. In the "cut-away view", the actual elevator is stopped on the fourth floor where a woman pushing a baby carriage has just exited. A variety of individuals all patiently wait on the other floors. The base of the "L" is the lobby and here also a number of people congregate. All together, 16 individuals are pictured in the cachet not counting the unseen baby. The design of this cachet is definitely something different.

Otis is "the" name in elevators. What better unofficial cancel could there be for this stamp than Otisville? After picking up the stamps in New York City, it was off to the Orange County Post Office where five of the 5.3-cent stamps were tied to the cover with this excellent killer-bar cancel.

Once again, COLLINS presents an innovative First Day Cover. A hand-painted cachet in which a miniature seven-story building is serviced by an elevator and a terrific Otisville, New York cancel obtained on actual Day of Issue. Unusual and unique. 

Item #U1401.  $8.00.