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United States/Covers & Postmarks : 1906 USS Iowa Postcard with Auxiliary Markings

 

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03 Nov 2022
03:35:50pm
Today I will share a postcard I recently bought at an antiques store in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, scanned below. The picture side shows the ship USS Iowa (BB-4) which saw action in the Spanish-American War and was in service up through WW1. Notice there is glitter highlighting the ship, which I thought was illegal to send in the mails.

The address side is rather 'busy." It appears that this postcard was sent without the Iowa town name of Dubuque (pronounced: duh-BUKE). The sender just had Iowa US originally on it, mailed it in Yonkers, New York, and it made it as far west as Cleveland, Ohio before the Post Office there sent it back to Yonkers, and back to the sender, Willie Morris. He then wrote Dubuque, Iowa on it and mailed it again in Yonkers and it finally made it to Dubuque.

The auxiliary marking reads:

Returned from Cleveland, Ohio,
NOV 20 1906
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I enjoy finding postcards such as this one,

Linus

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04 Nov 2022
09:58:39am
re: 1906 USS Iowa Postcard with Auxiliary Markings

I am a sucker for auxiliary markings myself. Deficiency in address markings (the circular marking in violet) are on the scarcer side.

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04 Nov 2022
11:52:26am
re: 1906 USS Iowa Postcard with Auxiliary Markings

I guess there are actually two auxiliary markings on this postcard. I showed it on another forum and learned that this card did not go all the way back to the sender, Willie Morris, but was actually figured out by the Yonkers, New York postal clerks using city directories they had available at the time. By process of elimination, they would have checked the street address in other Iowa cities (Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Waterloo, etc.) until they found it in Dubuque.

I find that process kind of amazing for the year 1906.

Linus

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Tom in Exton, PA

04 Nov 2022
12:40:54pm
re: 1906 USS Iowa Postcard with Auxiliary Markings

I love this kind of cover too! It tells a story, and sometimes it's amazing at how they moved the mail manually back in the day!

And my favorite Ben stamp too! That's a keeper fer shure! Winking

Per directories... back a dozen years ago there was a company on the second floor of my office building that searched for lost account holders. They had book cases full of antique city phone books along the walls, and it was amazing to pick one up and just thumb through it.

We knew they were moving because we took over their lease, but I was surprised one day to arrive at the office and find a 40 yard dumpster FULL of these phone books. It got taken away quickly, before I could think. Then I thought it would've been cool to take them all home and sell them on eBay... and yes I'd still be buried in phone books today!

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03 Nov 2022
03:35:50pm

Today I will share a postcard I recently bought at an antiques store in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, scanned below. The picture side shows the ship USS Iowa (BB-4) which saw action in the Spanish-American War and was in service up through WW1. Notice there is glitter highlighting the ship, which I thought was illegal to send in the mails.

The address side is rather 'busy." It appears that this postcard was sent without the Iowa town name of Dubuque (pronounced: duh-BUKE). The sender just had Iowa US originally on it, mailed it in Yonkers, New York, and it made it as far west as Cleveland, Ohio before the Post Office there sent it back to Yonkers, and back to the sender, Willie Morris. He then wrote Dubuque, Iowa on it and mailed it again in Yonkers and it finally made it to Dubuque.

The auxiliary marking reads:

Returned from Cleveland, Ohio,
NOV 20 1906
FOR BETTER DIRECTIONS

I enjoy finding postcards such as this one,

Linus

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04 Nov 2022
09:58:39am

re: 1906 USS Iowa Postcard with Auxiliary Markings

I am a sucker for auxiliary markings myself. Deficiency in address markings (the circular marking in violet) are on the scarcer side.

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04 Nov 2022
11:52:26am

re: 1906 USS Iowa Postcard with Auxiliary Markings

I guess there are actually two auxiliary markings on this postcard. I showed it on another forum and learned that this card did not go all the way back to the sender, Willie Morris, but was actually figured out by the Yonkers, New York postal clerks using city directories they had available at the time. By process of elimination, they would have checked the street address in other Iowa cities (Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Waterloo, etc.) until they found it in Dubuque.

I find that process kind of amazing for the year 1906.

Linus

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Tom in Exton, PA
04 Nov 2022
12:40:54pm

re: 1906 USS Iowa Postcard with Auxiliary Markings

I love this kind of cover too! It tells a story, and sometimes it's amazing at how they moved the mail manually back in the day!

And my favorite Ben stamp too! That's a keeper fer shure! Winking

Per directories... back a dozen years ago there was a company on the second floor of my office building that searched for lost account holders. They had book cases full of antique city phone books along the walls, and it was amazing to pick one up and just thumb through it.

We knew they were moving because we took over their lease, but I was surprised one day to arrive at the office and find a 40 yard dumpster FULL of these phone books. It got taken away quickly, before I could think. Then I thought it would've been cool to take them all home and sell them on eBay... and yes I'd still be buried in phone books today!

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