1896 - SURVEYOR GENERAL datestamp cancelling 2d QV sideface

[Ross Ewington]

Obviously not a postal cancel .... could it be a fiscal cancel? I have only ever seen
this datestamp used before on piece or non-revenue related documents.
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[David McNamee]

This could also be a docketing datestamp used on receiving mail. There are traces of a barred cancel underneath. Some of the same questions could be raised about Board of Education, illustrated here, except that there is no trace of other cancellation.

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[Ross Ewington]

..thanks David ...you are quite right about the BN cancel .... I wasn't expecting to see one ... so I didn't!

[Time for me to get the prescription for my reading glasses checked!]

I agree that the use of this datestamp to indicate receipt (or processing) by the Surveyor General's office to be most likely.