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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;harrync, post: 3187076, member: 58588&quot;]The Flag over Supreme Court [Sc 1894] was used on the POC up to B 75, when the postal rate increased. After that, they mostly had whatever was the&nbsp; the current definitive for first class postage. Occasionally commemoratives were used - I wish they hadn&#039;t used the Elvis stamp on B 171; not one of my favorite designs. [Nothing against Elvis; I just think the stamp isn&#039;t very attractive.] I use &#039;Post Office Cancelled&#039; for BEP cards, since that is what the BEP called them. But I think the PS cards usually are called Cancelled to Order [CTO]. Although POC cards usually go for less than mint [B 55 and B 126 are a couple of exceptions], cards that are clearly hand cancelled at the BEP go for about the same as show cancels. And I am not aware that the Visitor Center cancel was ever available at shows. For one thing, it would have been the post office, not the BEP, that had custody of the cancel die [I call them dies; maybe rubber cancel would be more accurate.] Sometimes the post office used coil stamps; POC cancels which have the coil stamp plate number on the stamp go for about double a regular POC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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