Matching Calgary Squared Circle Covers
A matched pair of Calgary Squared Circle covers showing the AM and PM time marks and mailed about 10 weeks apart. The covers are dated AM/Ju 13/99 and PM Ap 3/99 and both cancel a 2 Cents and a 5 Cents Leaf Issue paying the 7 cents Registered Domestic rate. The Calgary, Alta. Squared Circle Type II is RF 10 and as such is in most collections. The handbook shows the earliest known strike as Ja 10/94 and the latest Oc 22/00. Indicia known are Blank, AM, PM and 7, the latter being rare with only a few strikes known.
The AM cover is a preprinted Alfred Tyler return envelope to London, Ont. while the PM cover is hand addressed to William Rennie, Toronto. Both were Seed Merchants for many years around the turn of the century and their covers have supplied countless postal history collectors with examples for their speciality. Note the Rennie cover is a CPR company envelope with the name scratched out.
- from the Bill Pawluk collection
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