The World's Columbian Exposition Postal Marks

Lauzon book about Columbian Issue 1893 described the World's Fair Post Office as a model "ideal" post office which employed twenty-five clerks and twenty-five carriers.

This special P.O. was a part of the Government building at the Columbian Exposition.

Special cancellation

In the same building and in a gallery sixty-five feet long by twenty-five feet wide, overlooking the P.O. exhibit bellow it appeared the American Philatelic Association's exhibit of postage stamps.

The cork cancellations (left) had not disappeared when the Columbian stamps were issued. Many varieties of these will be found on them, as far as manufactured handstamps

There were two similar types of special machine cancellations with the inscription "World's Fair Station 1893" around the circle. The handstamp was also used.