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A cancellation (or cancel for short; French: oblitération) is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes, and colors.
Cancelled-to-order "stamps" of Fujairah, one of the United Arab Emirates, showing unobtrusive placement of cancellations in stamp corners A cancelled to order (also called and abbreviated CTO ) postage stamp , philatelic symbol , [ 1 ] is a stamp the issuing postal service has cancelled (marked as used), but has not traveled through the post ...
A used postage stamp with a pen cancel is usually worth much less than a stamp cancelled using a handstamp or machine. [5] In particular, the additional information from the handstamp is lost and the pen cancel may indicate fiscal (revenue) rather than postal use. Pen cancelling is, however, a common method of cancelling stamps used fiscally.
US 2-cent stamp of 1870, cancelled with a leaf shape in blue ink. A fancy cancel is a postal cancellation that includes an artistic design.Although the term may be used of modern machine cancellations that include artwork, it primarily refers to the designs carved in cork and used in 19th century post offices of the United States.
Austria introduced ca 1868 a set of cancellations of small diameter (< 20 mm), so that they could be seen entirely on all stamps. [3] Some philatelists and collectors of cancellations have a special interest in bullseyes primarily because the date, time, and place the stamp was used, or postmarked, can be identified by the cancellation.
Eastern National has described the stamps as cancellations, but this is incorrect as a cancellation is a mark that cancels the validity of a postage stamp, while these mark a record of visitation like a passport stamp and denote a place and date like a postmark and do not cancel anything. Collectors of the stamps have formed a non-profit social ...
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This cancel is only found on British stamps and the initial printing of Malta's first stamp, the Halfpenny Yellow. The "A25" cancel was introduced in 1859 and it remained in use until 1904. There are several distinct types of this cancel since it was used for a long period of time.