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Jackson, NH, circular hammer handstamp, REC'D
Object Details
- Description
- Postal employees who postmarked mail found that the task was simpler with a hand movement allowed by a long handle, akin to hammering. This long handled handstamp was a postal employee's modification. Not until the Pitney Bowes model S-55 handstamp was introduced were postmarking devices supplied with an extended handle.
- The employee modification consisted of removing the usual vertically-placed wooden handle and ferrule. This left an upright spike projecting from the back of the postmarker head or cross-bar. The spike could be threaded or placed through a split at the end of the handle that was bolted together to secure the head in place.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- June 27, 1895
- Object number
- 1992.2002.336
- Type
- Mail Processing Equipment
- Medium
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 1.75 x 1.5 x 11.5 in (4.44 x 3.81 x 29.21 cm)
- Place
- New Hampshire
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Mail Processing
- Record ID
- npm_1992.2002.336
- Usage
- Not determined
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