cancellation mark

  • YESTERYEAR90

    11 mensajes

    Reino Unido

    Can anyone assist in identifying this cancellation mark on postcard and possible value. thanks in anticipation.
  • moonstone

    1025 mensajes

    Reino Unido

    Can anyone assist in identifying this cancellation mark on postcard and possible value. thanks in anticipation.
    Almost certainly an inspector's mark, applied because the item had gone through the system without obtaining a normal cancellation, either hand or machine stamp, and noticed by a postal inspector.
    Value perhaps slightly above that with a normal cancellation, there are collectors who collect inspectors marks from the various post offices.
  • YESTERYEAR90

    11 mensajes

    Reino Unido

    Almost certainly an inspector's mark, applied because the item had gone through the system without obtaining a normal cancellation, either hand or machine stamp, and noticed by a postal inspector.
    Value perhaps slightly above that with a normal cancellation, there are collectors who collect inspectors marks from the various post offices.
    Thank you so much for your prompt reply. even after 40 years in the postcard world, one is still learning !
  • moonstone

    1025 mensajes

    Reino Unido

    No problem, your task now is to work out from the lettering in the mark, which office it originated from! It looks like SW, albeit inverted, which, I would guess, is a London SW mark. Often the letters conform to the lettering on the telegraphic code for the same office.

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