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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

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Purple cancel - Nagorno-Karabakh - 1993...

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Well spotted, Erik...

...and edited in OP :wink:


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

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Are those bloody fingerprints Tony? :shock: :twisted:


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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 :lol:

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Idar State used rather tasteful violet rubber stamp cancellations

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(on SG 1a) and

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(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:

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(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:

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RED: Boston, Mass to Concord, Mass - 1835 :shock:

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

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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 :idea:


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I just love the stamp with the (what I now know is a) Rabbit Bandicoot 8) . I haven't ever seen it, and it isn't actually illustrated in Scott.

Nice! :D

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And repeat after me: 'These are not cancellations' on these stamps from Duttia State:
They're control marks, applied before the stamps were sold, to prove they were genuine.

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. :shock:

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

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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 :idea:


Thanks Gavin. :wink:

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

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Thanks Gavin. :wink:

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

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 :idea:


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Some really nice ones on show keep them coming!

Here is another one which is quite striking

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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.

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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.

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Well, I am cheating because this one is black, but I've got a single kinda like yours, capetriangle!
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I have not seen another with a blank center until now!

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

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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.

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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. :lol:

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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

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

Along similar lines, but this one is from France:

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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).

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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.

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"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."

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Red and blue cancels on 4d Aust KGV

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Red cancels on cover

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Very nice all,

Particularly like those Australinan ones Alex

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

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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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Don't think I have seen Green represented yet, so here is one from Ceskoslovensko with what appears to be some sort of slogan roller type postmark in wonderful green ink!

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Here are three different close-ups making up the entire top portion of the envelope:

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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?

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

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WOW! That is amazing looking Tony!

That has to be one of the coolest looking stamps ever IMHO! 8)

Imagine that one blown up to around 4' square and hanging on the wall! That would be killer! 8)

Thanks for popping it up on this thread for us to see!

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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 :lol:

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

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here is one in blue that I recently acquired from Bonny, Southern Nigeria

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. :mrgreen:

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


You do like to lead with your chin, don't you, Aethelwulf, ducky ... :lol:

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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?

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