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Message:: [QUOTE="harrync, post: 3186385, member: 58588"]Hi Alex -  I am about 99.9% sure the card you show was not cancelled at the Visitor's Center. It is almost certainly [I'll explain the "almost" later] what the BEP calls a "Post Office Cancelled" card. The BEP would send a couple of thousand cards and the Visitor Center cancel die to the USPS Fulfillment Center in Kansas City, and they would affix a stamp, put the VC cancel die on their cancelling machine and cancel the cards. Then ship them back to DC to be sold already cancelled at the Visitor Center. From B 52 to B 178 [excepting Savings Bonds cards or other special issues] the USPS would set up at the Visitor Center and you could hand cancel the cards with the VC cancel [most cases - a couple of times they forgot the VC cancel and collectors could only get a circular date stamp on the day of issue souvenir card]. You can tell a actual cancelled at the BEP card by the fact it does not have a Flag over Supreme Court stamp or the cancel is in a different location. [I'll attach a scan of such a card.] Why the "almost"? It is just possible that a collector went to the BEP first day and hand cancelled a card with the Flag Over Supreme Court stamp and put the cancel in the same place as the USPS cancelling machine did. Not very likely, though[ATTACH=full]821946[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]