Share your amusing or embarrassing cancels on stamps!

gheinze · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2012 23:41:18 pm

Adding a couple of mugs of beer with your dinner?

MargoZ · **Posted:** Wed Jun 20, 2012 00:54:39 am

Recently posted on another thread...obiously the work of a republican!

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 09:50:12 am

Satan?

MargoZ · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:18:47 am

Great set of horns! :lol:

patg · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 14:28:26 pm

On 5 July 1799, a Friday evening at 7 o'clock, a man was arrested at the Mansion House, London, and sent to the Poultry Compter. He confirmed that he had accepted a wager of 10 guineas (equal to £735 today) to run naked from Cornhill to Cheapside

Does no one remember :lol:

the 70's

Anonymous

JohnHart · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 14:45:44 pm

These all made me laugh out loud. My wife thinks I've lost my mind but thanks to one and all. I needed that tonite!
jch

SMSSLT · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 23:19:10 pm

Me too! Perfect combination of stamp and cancel. :lol:

Machaggis52 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 06:04:48 am

You guys should pool those for an exhibition.

Are there online competitions?

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 02:19:00 am

This is my current favourite cancel...

You couldn't make it up!

...and it's for sale too... :mrgreen:

Heinz55 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 21:47:38 pm

How about this one?

MargoZ · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:54:26 am

Wow- monobrow and beard turns the monarch into the messiah!

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:59:38 am

Heinz55 wrote:

How about this one?

BruceK · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 14:06:04 pm

I like this postcard.

When my sister wanted to know how much I paid for it, I told her to read the 'New York' postmark :lol:

patg · **Posted:** Sat Jul 21, 2012 04:33:35 am

I can now say I have "Faith" in my collection. :lol:

MargoZ · **Posted:** Sun Jul 22, 2012 13:07:16 pm

Only HOPE and CHARITY to go

patg · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 02:59:03 am

MargoZ wrote:

Only HOPE and CHARITY to go

Haven't got there yet.

But I can go from Hell to the Holy City.

MargoZ · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 08:31:28 am

All bases covered :lol:

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 09:11:15 am

Some very funny scans here folks - keep them coming!

Paumerrek · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:03:20 am

Here is a Canada Moustache

Paumerrek · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:23:38 am

Found one more:

pookie9121 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:29:31 am

Paumerrek wrote:

Here is a Canada Moustache

Good stuff.

Cheers,
Erik

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 23:34:33 pm

Love the Canada one too!

Let's see some more please folks. :mrgreen:

Glen

Caddyman · **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2012 08:08:32 am

An echidna jumping through a hoop.

Paumerrek · **Posted:** Sun Aug 12, 2012 01:18:01 am

Poor Princess Elizabeth receives a beard and other markings from Canada Post while Princess Margaret comes through nearly unscathed:

Kathy Young · **Posted:** Sun Aug 12, 2012 09:38:11 am

I find this new zealand stamp amusing.

Paumerrek · **Posted:** Sun Aug 12, 2012 22:28:02 pm

Kathy Young wrote:

I find this new zealand stamp amusing.

Those are some interesting glasses she is wearing

muruk · **Posted:** Sun Aug 12, 2012 23:46:00 pm

Perhaps it is her tā moko for when she visits New Zealand?

Paumerrek · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 00:12:20 am

muruk wrote:

Perhaps it is her tā moko for when she visits New Zealand?

I had to look that one up, very interesting I learned something new today

gheinze · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 00:23:29 am

I was thinking Elizabeth as masked super hero, or perhaps attending a masquerade ball.

maszki · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 05:23:32 am

Paumerrek wrote:

Kathy Young wrote:

I find this new zealand stamp amusing.

Those are some interesting glasses she is wearing

I thought she was crying and her mascara had run.....

JohnHart · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 16:37:59 pm

Finally found one of my own ..... I never knew San Martin had a handlebar mustache !

Kathy Young · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2012 09:11:44 am

Straits settlements. I think it runs in the family. :roll:

vaido · **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2012 20:47:39 pm

some times ago scanned some nice ones while sorting the kiloware...
Easter greetings...

and lovely used stamps...

MargoZ · **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2012 21:56:12 pm

LOL

Poor QEII- the indignities never cease!

maszki · **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2012 22:24:05 pm

vaido wrote:

some times ago scanned some nice ones while sorting the kiloware...
Easter greetings...

and lovely used stamps...

That last handwritten comment...has she passed her 'used' by date?

Off with his head!!!!

The Pom · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2012 22:22:16 pm

Unfortunate....

Debbie66 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 02, 2012 00:44:33 am

Hi All,
Just to keep this post going, here are a few I think are amusing! :lol:

Keeping one eye open for you!!!!

Nice goatie

Nice pipe

Ouch!!

This one makes me want to be sick

Final one just cos I love it

Micky · **Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2012 01:13:27 am

I think this is from the Children of the Corn collection. :twisted:

ScanStamps · **Posted:** Sat Sep 08, 2012 06:18:04 am

This town in France has long been one of my personal favourites...

Kathy Young · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 08:10:09 am

This is two super heroes, stamp album head and water mark man. :lol:

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 14:32:03 pm

Can You Hear The Lambs Screaming, Clarice?

Norm

MargoZ · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 14:46:29 pm

Kathy Young wrote:

This is two super heros,stamp album head and water mark man. :lol:

Redefines 'socked on the nose'....

Paumerrek · **Posted:** Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:34:04 am

A faithful pet makes an appearance:

erikc67 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 13, 2012 05:01:40 am

ScanStamps wrote:

This town in France has long been one of my personal favourites...

There's a joke in there, somewhere, about it being a protectorate.

maturin · **Posted:** Thu Sep 13, 2012 16:27:50 pm

Mr. Heart Health gave the ballerina an unwelcome lift...

...so she kicked him in the head.

tascollector · **Posted:** Sat Sep 15, 2012 09:53:06 am

traralgon3844 wrote:

This one makes the buyer look daft.

The Coil Perforations were not issued until October 1941. :shock:

I only just saw this. Stamps_fishing has been selling forgeries on eBay for some time, previously perf "OS" but recently re-gummed stamps. He's pretty good except doesnt know his postal history - as per this example

Paumerrek · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 02:42:54 am

Eye in the sky:

JohnHart · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 07:02:20 am

Theoretically St. Anthony is preaching to the fish here:

Looks more like spear fishing to me !

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:29:44 am

Dog with an Elizabethan or Protective Collar

And here's one from Underwood Queensland

Feebletodix · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 22:19:26 pm


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