East Putney, Vermont

Here's a cover with a cancellation that seems to have it all.  It's a County cancel, plus an oval and a star killer.   Only the second county cancel recorded from this post office.

See the information:  http://www.vermontps.org/CountyPostmaster/VTCountyPostmaster.html

The star killer shows better in this scan from the retroreveal website:

More Vermont Stars

A few more Vermont Star cancels: these all seem from the same manufacturer. They look the same, especially the "3D' stars.

Vernon (Windham County)

West Corinth (Orange County)

Irasburgh (Orleans County)

Barton Landing (Orleans County)

named changed in 1909 to Orleans

Some New Stars

I picked up a few new Vermont stars yesterday at the Crossroads Show in Quechee.

Perhaps the most interesting is this circular date stamp from Hardwick. The star is nice, but the CDS is very unusual. According to Bill Lizotte, another Vermont postal history collector this is called a "pie crust". Similar cancels are known from East Orange and Wolcott.

This star cancel from Randolph has a negative star within a positive star.

Looks like the star is handmade on this cancel from Plainfield. I believe the circular date stamp is a Collins Circle.

The final star is a 3 dimensional star from Newbury Centre in purple. A later use of a star cancel.