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Posted 1 year ago
MishMasher
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I like the fancy cancel on this one. I've seen some even neater ones online. I read that there are collectors of cancellation or post marks. I wows me that there a so many different collectable things on a postcard.
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Hi, MishMasher. Very interesting. :-)
Per a stamp community dot org forum source:
*snip*
There are approximately 8000 flag cancel varieties documented in Frederick Langford's "Flag Cancel Encyclopedia", 4th ed, 2008.
*snip*
https://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=66295
I have to say, though, that what caught my eye about this postcard was the name of the addressee's town, "Keonig." That just jumped out at me.
It was possible that there was a town named "Keonig" in MO. Names get spelled wrong, and get codified in law as such, and never get corrected.
However, it does appear that the postcard writer is one of Mother Nature's 'spellers.'
There is a Koenig, MO, and it's a little over ninety miles from Sedalia:
Sedalia to Koenig
via US-50 E
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WUeWUMkaQW3m7LMW7
Then I started reading what the postcard sender wrote:
*snip*
hello elsie
how are you
I am fine
I wish you
would have
come up here
with lena
Did lena
tell you what w.g. said
from a kind
frind [sic]
wB
*snip*
Who was "wB," and were they truly a kind friend of Elsie?
Then there is the postcard itself.
Google Lens uncovered a twin, along with a mirror near twin (the text on the mirror twins isn't the same), and a couple of mirror cousins:
(Uncorrected OCR from the eBay listing):
*snip*
Text from card (OCR/Computer Generated, may not be accurate so check the images above):
U Darling sweetest
You are exacily to my mipd
You color all my wagog though
My nightly dreams wim you ars fra
Whererentore has touched the ground,
It is the time of roses,
ry wreaths-within whase round
The loving soul reposes.
100
ess and quess trul
Where is he who iS all thr owns
eh for a spell on thy lips neloves
Say, is my name, Dearest!writ on thy neart?
Lady of my love
he moon in splendor
upon her lips,
sunshine to attend her
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Made in Gerinany
co000000000000odo
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Post Caro (3)
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Post Carol
0000000000000000
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Coord
Bococco 0000000ood
*snip*
https://www.ebay.com/itm/364286903701
I can't really get into the mind set of somebody from 1909, but these postcards are indeed romantic. Would somebody who was merely a kind friend send something like this?
Questions, questions. };-)
MishMasher, Just following up a bit. :-)
Poor little Koenig, MO. Per the USPS, Koenig is a name to avoid using for zip code 65013. :-(
They recommend using Belle, MO instead:
https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?citybyzipcode
However, the residents of Belle can't seem to agree on the origins of their city's name:
https://cityofbellemo.org/about/
So why did "wB" use "Keonig, Mo" as the address for Elsie (we'll overlook the misspelling)?
It appears that Koenig, MO did have it's own post office 1892-1920:
https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Osage&searchtext=&pagenum=2
It was named for a former postmaster, although this source doesn't really explain why they used "Koenig" instead of "King" (it strikes me as likely that King anglicized his surname):
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n107/mode/2up
Still, it looks to me like Koenig, MO isn't necessarily impoverished. Whoever lives here probably has more than a couple of bucks to rub together:
Koenig
Jefferson Township, MO 65013
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LoJk3D4eMvAEAiws8
Anyway, I figure Elsie did get the postcard, despite the misspelled city name. Who "wB," lena, and "w.g."were, what all went on during that trip, and why it should concern Elsie remain mysteries. };-)
More followup. I may have found "Lena":
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19553630/lena-schultz
The name is spelled "Lina" on the headstone; however, the person who identified her seems to be a relative, so I trust their judgment.
No joy on finding Elsie in any of the area cemeteries :-( :
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/29712/koenig-cemetery