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Post by jamesw on Mar 15, 2014 3:21:15 GMT
Picked up a couple of used Nova Scotia and PEIs at my stamp club the other night (surprisingly I didn't have a single from either place, or New Brunswick, that was used...til now). I'm curious about the cancel on this #8. Hard to make out any text, thought the only letter that appears to be clear, looks like it's backwards! S in top right corner. Possibly a revenue cancel of some kind? Any thoughts?  |
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Post by jamesw on Mar 15, 2014 3:32:11 GMT
For posterity, here are the other new used Provinces I picked up. New Brunswick #7 and PEI #s 5, 11 and 15. Ok, not socked on nose town cancels, but at least they've done service.  |
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Post by BC on Mar 15, 2014 3:59:50 GMT
James, sorry to say, but all those cancels appear fake. Nothing similar appears in Robson Lowe's Maritime Provinces book. I will post later of what genuine cancels look like. Used from the Maritimes are scarcer than mint in most cases.
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Post by jamesw on Mar 15, 2014 15:30:11 GMT
Ahh. Too good to be true. Oh well. An album page with annotation.
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Post by therealwesty on Mar 15, 2014 20:35:26 GMT
Jamesw, real or not, I am inclined to think that the backwards 'S' on your stamp could be the numeral 2, perhaps followed by a 1. Though if this were the case, the 2 is rather poorly formed. Not really an answer, but maybe another avenue to explore.
My Nova Scotia stamps from that issue are all mint save one, which has an oval shaped bar type obliterater cancel.
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Post by BC on Mar 16, 2014 15:36:42 GMT
To me the Nova Scotia stamp looks like someone took an embossed tag of some sort and used it to "cancel" the stamp. I can clearly see "STAR" or "STAD" in reverse. Perhaps a higher resolution scan can pick out the words over the queen's hair. PEI stamps are unusual to have a CDS on the stamp, it was usually applied somewhere else on the envelope. Even when the CDS hits the stamp, you would see many letters, there are very few blank spaces due to the length of the name. I have shown this PEI genuine CDS before, and here are some Nova Scotia stamps with the most common type of cancel, and another PEI.     |
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