The International Machine Cancel Society News Item

June 1, 2011

New Addition to the Machine Cancel Society Electronic Projects

Our webmaster, Bob Swanson, has made available online, his spreadsheet of the current census of American Flag Cancels of Military Facilities. The file has a Copyright statement, but the data is free to use for personal and research use. The original information for this census came from Page 61 of the Flag Cancel Encyclopedia by the late Frederick Langford. Bob maintains this listing of every reported date, and has enhanced the historical data by adding more dates and cancellations to the listing over the years. You can view the spreadsheet at: spreadsheet with all known usage dates of American flag cancellations of U.S. domestic military facilities of the First World War.

Current Status of the Machine Cancel Society Electronic Projects

Some of the Society resources available on-line have been converted to the "MOBI" format, which is compatible with the Amazon Kindle (tm) device, and mobile "smart" phones. They include:

Bob Swanson's articles, including:

Extracting Cancellations from Images of Scanned Covers and Stamps [.mobi file].
Using Google Book Search for Postal History Research [.mobi file]

In addition, a special edition of the Machine Cancel Forum was generated for the 2009 APS Stampshow by our Forum editor. Electronic copies of this special edition have been previously made available as PDF files, including: the entire Forum as a single PDF file [9 megabytes] and individual PDF files for each article in the special Forum edition [9 megabytes].

Now, this special edition of the Forum has been converted to the "MOBI" format, which is compatible with the Amazon Kindle (tm), and mobile "smart" phones. Interested Kindle and phone owners should try downloading the Special Edition 2009 Stampshow Machine Cancel Forum [16 megabyte .mobi file].

And that's not all: another special edition of the Forum was created by our very-busy editor for the Garfield-Perry Show. See: Special Edition Garfield-Perry Machine Cancel Forum.

The Garfield-Perry special edition has not been converted to the MOBI file for Kindle (tm), but we have created a special version of its PDF file that reads quite well on the Kindle (especially when viewed horizontally). Try: Special Edition Garfield-Perry Machine Cancel Forum ["narrow margin version", 8MB PDF file].

The MOBI files can also be read by the free Kindle (tm) APP on smart phones. Please contact the webmaster if you experience difficulties with any of these files.

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