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Hi all,

I like a nice cancel on a stamp, particularly on older issues, but there is something about cancels in other colours than black that is all the more pleasing!

I dont have many but would love to see yours, here is one in blue that I recently acquired from Bonny, Southern Nigeria

Thanks

Lundy

Great idea!

Here's two of my favorites:

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Members might like to look at this thread too!

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=161

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Blue scots cancel....


Blue dotted cancel

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Engl. type in bright blue....

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Purple cancel - Fredersdorf, near Berlin, 1946

Purple cancel - Nagorno-Karabakh - 1993...

...and you don't see many of those

Purple "Liberation" cancel - Sudetenland, 1938

Gavin:

Well spotted, Erik...

...and edited in OP

Cocos (Keeling) Island First Day Cover 1969

Purple palm tree cancel

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Jammu & Kashmir SG 96 (pair) and SG 100, with rather brighter cancels than the stamps themselves (but the single SG 100 is the good 'un)

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Are those bloody fingerprints Tony?

You rumbled me, Erik. PeterS tried to relieve me of it (claiming it was for my own good) and I had to take fairly severe measures to stop him

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Idar State used rather tasteful violet rubber stamp cancellations



(on SG 1a) and



(on SG 2)

but unfortunately, the rubber stamps wore out fairly quickly, and weren't replaced often enough.

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And repeat after me: 'These are not cancellations' on these stamps from Duttia State:



(on SG 16e)

They're control marks, applied before the stamps were sold, to prove they were genuine.

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Here's some of mine:

RED - New York to Chesterville, Ohio, 1846:



Ripper!

My 6400th post!

RED: Boston, Mass to Concord, Mass - 1835

BLUE - Mentone East, VIC to Ringwood, VIC - 1961.
(Can anyone shed some light on the blue marking? What was it used for?)

Erik, that's applied to the Registered label.

Big POs such as Melbourne or Sydney would have pre-printed Registered labels because of a high volume of mail.

But for smaller offices (like Mentone East) it would not be economical to pre-print them. So they would use "blank" registered labels and have a handstamp with the PO name. Simple economics really, I suppose

I just love the stamp with the (what I now know is a) Rabbit Bandicoot . I haven't ever seen it, and it isn't actually illustrated in Scott.

Nice!

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Those are not cancellations on the stamps from Duttia State. They're control marks, applied before the stamps were sold, to prove they were genuine.

Whew, now I'm thirsty!
Tony, you have any Kool-aid I can drink?

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Thanks Gavin.

Do you know if 2/5 was the correct rate for registered at that time?

Kriszick - Glad you like it.

Erik, sorry I've no idea - but if you started a new thread with that question, I'm sure you'd get an answer in no time

Some really nice ones on show keep them coming!

Here is another one which is quite striking

Lundy

A favorite from the Western Australia collection, purchased from Stanley Gibbons in the early 1970's, prior to 1972, when they still had small approval books sent out to customers (my father), price £1, which, even at the time seemed reasonable.

Its almost 39 years ago and I distinctly remembered saying to Dad "Have your ever seen a void grid with nail marks and in green!"

Sometimes the cheapest stamps can be the most memorable.



The numbers at the side represent the plating of the stamp.

I forgot how to center the picture but I hope the item meets with approval.

Kindest regards

Richard Debney

Well, I am cheating because this one is black, but I've got a single kinda like yours, capetriangle!

I have not seen another with a blank center until now!

Now to get back on topic . . .something colorful:

Red


and blue

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Very nice Kriszick,

Here are a few more from Sudan. First a blue diamond cancel, I am not sure where this was used. Next Kerma. Lastly a purple cancel for Makwar.

Thanks

Lundy

I posted this on the SON thread a while back, but it fits here too.

A nice blue "COMPANIA DO(DU?) NYASSA / CORREIO DE MEDO" with a giraffe peeking out the middle of it.

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Here are a couple more,

These are Dutch ship Cancels on Trinidad and Tobago stamps:

KNSM SS Costa Rica which was sunk in 27/4/1941 and KNSM SS Venezuela which was scrapped in 1938

Thanks

Lundy

Lundy, That red cancel on the green USA stamp is beautiful. Nice contrast!

Along similar lines, but this one is from France:



And a few more in red:

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and not forgetting the first "obliterator", the Maltese Cross, which, when it was introduced, was used with red ink. Both of these examples are from plate 1 (the black is 1a).



Chris.

A recent enquiry to the ISJP turned up the following info on a block of japanese stamps with a purple cancellation, I thought it prudent to share the image and the info here. The mark says OSAKA at the top NIPPON at the bottom and has the datestamp 12.5.37.




"The cancellation is an example of a Roman-Letter datestamp that was applied to mail addressed abroad (foreign-mail). The Roman-Letters were used to clearly the identify of the sending post office and country to post offices that would eventually receive the mail. Roman-Letter datestamps, in many different guises, have been used on mail originating in Japan from 1875.01.08 to the present day. (1) Initially, the datestamps were applied in black ink. In the 1880s some were also struck in brown ink. Purple gained popularity shortly afterwards, although it was never used exclusively. Since foreign mail resumed after the Pacific War, most Roman-Letter cancellations have been struck in black."

C Swenson

Hi all
A couple from my collection



Red and blue cancels on 4d Aust KGV



Red cancels on cover

Cheers
Alex

Very nice all,

Particularly like those Australinan ones Alex

Lundy

Here are a couple I have added to other threads in the past





Lundy

This is a Panama cover with a special cancellation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the republic.

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Alwar State in India occasionally varied the monotony of black cancellations with a stylish purple:

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And Morvi State used purple rubber stamps in some of its smaller post offices:

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Here is another one I have added to my collection Moltema- Tasmania.

I could not find anything when searching Moltema on Stampboards, so perhaps more unusual?



Lundy

Or a nice purple smudge on this Jammu & Kashmir SG 1, the 1866 ½ Anna grey-black watercolour

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Skilo54, back in the mists of time, when I was young enough and had a figure less unsuited for it, I thought of putting these Jammu & Kashmir Circulars onto tee-shirts. A wall decoration 4 ft square in the livingroom, though ... that would leave visitors in no doubt where my sympathies lay

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Do you really want the Homicide Squad to visit?

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So you think they might be interested in buying tee-shirts, too, Kevin

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I'm assuming Southern Nigeria referred to the "Oil Rivers" territory? Is that really such a "bonny" place, what with malaria et al?

OTOH, almost anything would be relatively nice after being cooped up in a ship for weeks with sweaty sailors.

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Hi!

I love this one. It is a nice red postmark of Coolah NSW on a die IIb 9d roo. I`ve seen red registered postmarks, but not many CDS in red. Are those red Town CDS common?



Greetings

Blue cancel on 6d Roo

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