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51. Comb Perforation Comb Perforation – a way of perforating a sheet of stamps whereby the pins when viewed from above are arranged in the form of a...
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52. Fancy Cancel Fancy Cancel – term used to describe some of the more exotic cancellations which appear on stamps - to a certain extent synonym...
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53. Dumb Cancel Dumb Cancel – postal cancels that have no identifying inscription. They take many forms the first and probably most well known is the early English 03/09/2007 | 0 comment(s) | Read more...

54. Dotted Circle Dotted Circle – a particular type of circular date stamp (CDS) in which the outer circle or frame of the cancel...
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55. Date Stamp Date Stamp – any postal marking which has a date. It can either be a handstamp or part of a machine cancel. Rob Browning
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56. Circular Date Stamp Circular Date Stamp – a type of cancel which has the date enclosed in a circle it also normally shows the town and other information chosen by and signifying the originating ...
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57. Cancelled To Order Cancelled To Order or CTO – this is where mint stamps are printed with postmarks and sold to the philatelic trade at below face value. They may be either new issues or withdrawn stock. Usually with modern CTO’s only a quarter segment of the ...
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58. Cancelled Cancelled – when printed on a stamp it indicates that the stamp has either been issued as a specimen for official purposes, or more usually that the balance of stocks of that issue have been rema...
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59. Cancel Cancel or Cancellation – any mark or marks stamped, written, printed or perforated across a stamp or printed postal stationery to prevent its re-use. It includes postmarks and pen cancels and wo...
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60. Blind Cancellation Blind Cancellation – a postmark which either doesn’t show any place name of origin or sometimes one that has a name but no date of posting. This latter even was due to the date slug being missing from the 30/08/2007 | 0 comment(s) | Read more...

  
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