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[b]Space Cover 739: Project Mercury FDC[/b] Most space cover collectors have Project Mercury FDCs in their collections. Ranging from common FDCs with no cachet to the cachet makers of the time (Art Craft, Artmaster, etc.) these covers can be found with single, pairs, and blocks of 4 Project Mercury stamps with the Cape Canaveral machine cancel. Plate blocks, however, received a Cape Canaveral hand cancel. Pictured above is an Art Craft Project Mercury FDC with the hand cancel. Up until now, there seemed to only be a single version of the hand cancel. Now, however, there seems to be a second version. The black-and-white scan of this Artmaster Project Mercury FDC shows the second version of the cancel. Specifically note the difference from the top scan: the font of the digit 2 of 20, the size of the time (only partially over the 2 in 1962 while the first version extends past the 2), and the specific differences in the font of the 1 and 2 in 1962. Here is an enlargement of the cancels next to each other for comparison. After the discovery of a couple of these cancels a continued search in dealer inventories and online sales for other Project Mercury FDCs with the second cancel have not found a single other instance of it. Anyone out there have a version with the second cancel version? Any thoughts about it?
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