Amazing that the card Kevin posted above is only ten days after the Johnson postcard was stamped. Has all the same appearances. Top of the "1907" obscured, etc. It also appears that the football shaped portion of the stamp is possibly part of the same operation as the circle date stamp as it seems to always be placed at about the same spacing and with the lines in the same parallel fashion as the circle date stamp lettering. I suspect it was designed to catch both sides of the postage stamp. On the Johnson postcard it apparently just didn't get pressed down hard enough to run off of the postage stamp.
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