Lance - I don't have either of the books mentioned nor have I studied news service photographs. With that said, and strictly from the photos you show, while the WWP styles my be the same or similar, they are different. Take a look at the example from page 175 and the three later photos you posted. Look at where the word NOTICE is positioned in relation to the words below it, most noticeable the N in NOTICE to "is" in the sentence below. Also look at the ending of the last word in the copy, pictures, and how it is positioned to the D in WORLD. The stamp used in the three examples you use are different than the "mid 1940-s - 1954" stamp. I don't know if this means you have discovered a new stamp, a variety of an older stamp, or...?
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