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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 0:33:42 GMT
Hi Just posted this 1972 cover from Quebec...Common cover, EXCEPT for the triple """and almost quadruple"" cancel. The post office cancel machine must have had the hiccups that day..haha. Have not seen that many on any cover before...Unique.
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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 0:43:04 GMT
Here is one more not normal cancel...This 1888 Toronto cancel looks normal..BUT the 88 date in the cancel stamp is upside down...A keeper.
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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 0:48:22 GMT
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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 0:50:52 GMT
Another with 2 different aligned cancels.. Robert
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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 1:13:44 GMT
This London cover from 1888 has an oddity in the date..The left "8" is normal, BUT, the right "8" is upside down and smaller than the "8" on the left. Robert
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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 1:18:30 GMT
And NO cancel was sent to my house.. Robert
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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 1:25:39 GMT
Nice cancel from Tilt Cove Newfoundland....Why is this odd...It comes from the town that has a population of 4. Robert
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Post by WERT on Oct 4, 2019 1:28:59 GMT
Another personal company cancel bottom left corner..Different. Robert
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Post by kasvik on Oct 4, 2019 1:31:36 GMT
And NO cancel was sent to my house.. Robert |
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Post by stanley64 on Oct 4, 2019 16:57:32 GMT
Another with 2 different aligned cancels.. Robert
Nice cover Robert; thanks for sharing! Even between the two values though, I do not believe this covered the postal rate of the time (5¢ for the first ounce) - interesting.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 4, 2019 19:42:04 GMT
Found in my collection of Canadian covers, this double cancel from Montreal on 14 July 1966:  |
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Post by smauggie on Oct 5, 2019 1:50:30 GMT
Another with 2 different aligned cancels.. Robert
The blue "cancel" is actually a meter adding one cent in postage paid. |
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Post by smauggie on Oct 5, 2019 1:52:05 GMT
Found in my collection of Canadian covers, this double cancel from Montreal on 14 July 1966: The blue "cancel" is a meter paying the postage for this envelope. Meters are not normally supposed to be cancelled, but some are. |
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 20, 2019 18:41:43 GMT
Re: the perils of sending philatelic items in the regular mail stream. Not a Canadian cover, but a bullseye machine cancel on a circular hand stamp cancel -- an odd one. Looks like the convention station cancel was applied 10/1/49 at 9 am and the machine cancel 10/1/49 at 8 pm.
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Post by WERT on Oct 20, 2019 20:21:50 GMT
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The large cancel was applied first, then the smaller one...Dont understand why this happens...To me one cancel is sufficient.
Robert
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 20, 2019 20:46:53 GMT
The latter postmark is likely the result of automated facing and cancelling.
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Post by mikeclevenger on Oct 23, 2019 9:12:25 GMT
The latter postmark is likely the result of automated facing and cancelling. Too bad that one isn't on an Iwo Jima Cover, then it would count as both types. LOL. |
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Post by feebletodix on Oct 23, 2019 9:41:54 GMT
With regard to the double and triple cancellations I would assume the postal employee put the letter through the machine multiple times. This is done in order to increase the throughput volume of the sorting office when it is under review. Higher volume means less chance of staff level reductions.
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Post by philatelia on Oct 23, 2019 13:30:05 GMT
Just came across this cover with SEVEN machine cancels! The person receiving wrote their thoughts about the USPS haha!   |
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Post by mikeclevenger on Oct 25, 2019 11:36:22 GMT
Here are 3 covers, all from the same day, Oct 31, 1941, with double cancels on each of them. I have some other covers from the following day and they are normal. It must have just been a bad day for the machine.  |
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Post by WERT on Oct 25, 2019 15:16:30 GMT
Nice covers mikeclevenger
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Post by vikingeck on Oct 26, 2019 14:02:55 GMT
Hi Mike mikeclevenger they all have a double strike so maybe the clerk was shivering with cold in Iceland  |
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Post by mikeclevenger on Oct 29, 2019 8:52:35 GMT
Thanks and I bet they were cold. When the name of your country has ICE in it, I think they are trying to tell you something.
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Post by WERT on Oct 29, 2019 23:04:09 GMT
Come on..COLD Here is me after i shoveled my driveway to go get a coffee...haha
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Post by vikingeck on Oct 30, 2019 16:31:27 GMT
Back to Canada with an odd pair from 1931  NORTH AUGUSTA ONTARIO is the date stamp 6 Feb and 4 Mar .. so why did they need to use the leg of a chair to cancel the stamps? Was it normal to cancel the stamp and then add a date stamp? Surely the date stamp alone would be enough rather than a double operation . I'm going in at the deep end of speculation here and I hope a Canadian can answer . Is it possible the letters were mailed in another tiny community without a regular Post office and then date stamped in North Augusta ? |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 30, 2019 18:25:38 GMT
vikingeck - That's the way postmasters were instructed to cancel up here in Canada. They were told NOT to give SON cancels unfortunately. Most I would assume would just partially cancel the stamp with the dater, but others would do a job on the stamp like these two covers! It's really quite a shame!
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Post by kasvik on Oct 31, 2019 0:49:12 GMT
vikingeck - That's the way postmasters were instructed to cancel up here in Canada. They were told NOT to give SON cancels unfortunately. Most I would assume would just partially cancel the stamp with the dater, but others would do a job on the stamp like these two covers! It's really quite a shame! |
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Post by jimjung on Dec 10, 2019 15:39:40 GMT
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Post by WERT on Dec 10, 2019 16:02:02 GMT
jimjung
Those are really neat..Didn't even know they existed..
Robert
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Post by kasvik on Mar 26, 2020 18:13:39 GMT
This just arrived, a Swiss cancel on a Germany MiNr 83I.
I have a small collection of these; foreign cancels on other countries' stamps. I assume they happened when rail and ship mail went blindly into a sack, sealed until arrival. Call it pre-Twenty-First Century globalization.
But there is a rub; Les Eaux-Vives sub-station is in old town Geneva, a truck ride from the railway station or the main Geneva post office. Grack.
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