Circular Date Stamp or CDS

Circular Date Stamp (circular postmark), generally contains the ciry and state of mailing as well as the date and time the postmark was applied.

Here are the ones I have collected. I just collect the ones from the state of Louisiana. Any other collectors of CDS?????

I have some...but I don't collect them. I'll have to look and see if I have any from Loui for you

Thanks Sam, I would appreciate that.

Dont go out my way to collect them, but when I come across them, I keep them.

Cool!!!! Wonder if the space aliens from the UFO cancelled this one...lol

Maybe they were there earlier, canceling stamps......Never know!!!!! lol

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That is what I like - well centred, not perfect but good perfs, clear and neat Roswell postmark- date and time.
That is a good example of what can be collected of that period - congratulations.

Well for those who do not know - New Mexico has always been the experimental Rocket center of the US starting with R. Goddard.

Just a suggestion . . . Although there was a time when postmark collectors routinely collected cancellations on two inch by four inch pieces cut from covers, the accepted practice now is to collect the entire cover. My avatar, for instance, may look like a "cut square," but it is actually digitally cropped from the whole cover.

For anyone interested in collecting postmarks, check out the Postmark Collectors Club. http://www.postmarks.org/

Yes indeed, the postmark is today as important as it was even before 1840.
The problem as before is space and keeping the cover in good condition.
Even today some just want to cut-out the stamps - oops there goes another 1930 registered airmail cover.

Thanks for the suggestion Robert. Most that I collect have been giving to me over the years. If I really like the cover, I will keep the whole thing. Thats the great thing about stamp collecting, we all collect stamps in different ways.

Here are some CDS that I have collected with New Orleans on them.

Sweet....... Look'n good