Massawepie Rural Station     Fifth Scout Camp Cancel    Type II

$50

08/05/61

Tupper Lake, NY   Massawepie Rur. Sta.

Example on message side of Massawepie Boy Scout Camps canoeing chrome postcard.

Published by Marks & Fuller, Rochester, NY.

Horizontal text order is year/month/time/day. This 4-bar hand cancel, type II, was used in 1961 & 1962.

Type I (horizontal text order is month/day/time/year), was used from 1954 through 1960, and is

cataloged in the Additions Section.

              

Massawepie Rural Station     Fifth Scout Camp Cancel    Type III

$50

08/19/63

Tupper Lake, NY   Massawepie Rur. Sta.

Example on message side of Massawepie Scout Camps trail camps postcard.

DP Dexter Press   Published by Marks & Fuller, Rochester, NY.

Horizontal text order is month/day/year/time.   This 4-bar hand cancel, type III, was in use 1963 - 1967.

The cancel type(s) for 1968 remain unrecorded. 1969 used a fourth different horizontal text

order of month/time/day/year. Adequate images are unavailable.

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The Massawepie Scout Camps opened in 1952.   The Camps are located in the southeast corner of

St. Lawrence County, NY, within the 110 square mile Town of Piercefield.   Also within the Town,

and close to the Camp, are the hamlets of Childwold, Gale & Piercefield.   For the first two years a

limited postal service was provided at Childwold.   Starting in 1954, service was provided by the

Tupper Lake, NY post office in Franklin County, 13 miles east of the Camp.   The Massawepie Rural

Station PO itself was within the Camp boundaries & on Camp property.

See a 1952 Cover from the Camp in the Corner Card Section of US Covers.

Also see: "Massawepie Scout Camp" by Lawrence Clay & Hallvard Slettebø ,

SOSSI Journal Volume 59, No. 4 (July/August 2010), page 104.

6th National Jamboree     Scout Cancel #15

$3

07/17/64 thru 07/23/64    Valley Forge, PA    Machine Slogan Cancel

  

Cancel #16a   Machine Cancel   Year/Date            Cancel #16b    Machine Cancel    Date/Year

   

Cancel #16c    4 Bar Hand Cancel         Cancel #16d    Bayview Branch PO Hand Cancel   Red

4th Girl Scout Senior Roundup     Scout Cancel #16

$12

7/17 thru 7/26/65

Farragut Wildlife Management Area, Idaho, on Lake Pend Oreille.

A temporary post office, Roundup, situated within the camp, was a branch PO of Bayview,

the nearest town.    Roundup existed at least from 7/17 thru 7/27/65. There were 4 different cancels.

Scouting Station     Scout Cancel #17

$15

05/12 & 05/13/67    Charlotte, NC    4 Bar Hand Cancel

For the 1967 Rotary-Scout Exposition held in the Merchandise Mart in Charlotte

A contract USPO was operated by the Boy Scouts of Troop 46.

XII World Jamboree        Scout Cancel #18                                                     Scout Cancel #18a

#18

08/01 - 09/67    Coeur D'Alene,ID    Machine Slogan Cancel

$4

#18a

08/03/67, Coeur D'Alene,ID    Machine Slogan Cancel

$15

Jamboree mail was transferred to Spokane, WA for processing

using equipment from Coeur D'Alene, ID.

On August 3 the "3" slug turned up missing and no replacement was immediately

available. Inland Empire Philatelic Society had prepared a cachet, 67-50,

with the intent of creating sets cancelled on each of the nine days of the

Jamboree, 08/01 - 09/67. They ultimately proceeded with #18a being the result.

Other users apparently had no problem and produced normally dated Aug 3 cancels.