Hong Kong: QV 1891 stamp/postmark fluke
Jul 2, 2017 0:35:46 GMT
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Post by Anping on Jul 2, 2017 0:35:46 GMT
I'm always trying to obtain decent CDS postmarks on my Queen Victoria collection, where these types of cancellation were in use for the time period of a particular issue (as opposed to killer cancels, like B62 etc). In the process, I bought one of these SG44 14 cents on 30 cents provisionals this week, not realising that I already had a copy that was a 'duplicate' in more ways than one.
I wonder what the chances are of finding two identical stamps, 25 years apart, with identical postmark dates (April 20 1891) and applied by the same CDS (and same clerk):
The coloured rings indicate the more obvious identical features of the CDS.
The Hong Kong post office that used this CDS was the only post office in the colony at the time, and would have used one of these for each counter clerk. Each CDS cancellator was allocated daily to a particular clerk, who had to apply a sample cancellation in the day book and then sign for it. So this is perhaps quite a coincidental find.
I wonder what the chances are of finding two identical stamps, 25 years apart, with identical postmark dates (April 20 1891) and applied by the same CDS (and same clerk):
The coloured rings indicate the more obvious identical features of the CDS.
The Hong Kong post office that used this CDS was the only post office in the colony at the time, and would have used one of these for each counter clerk. Each CDS cancellator was allocated daily to a particular clerk, who had to apply a sample cancellation in the day book and then sign for it. So this is perhaps quite a coincidental find.