Christmas Seal Tied on Postcard

This is the image of the address portion of a Christmas-themed picture postcard. I have collected this item, because it shows the Christmas seal "tied" to the cover by the Post Office cancelling machine. These covers are quite popular, since they show a use of the charity seal that is actually illegal. The address portion of a cover or postcard was supposed to have only postage stamps attached in the upper right (where they would be cancelled).

This item was used on December 23, 1914 from Farmingdale, New York. As an added item of interest, the machine which cancels this post card was manufactured by the Time Marking/Cummins Company. I have additional information about these types of machine cancellations on my machine cancel pages.

If you wish, you can load the picture separately [23k JPG].

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