Can others add to the info on this cancel? it reads:
It reads "MO&SB Launceston Tasmania 7 Mar 96" i am presuming it is Money Order & Savings Bank?. Is red the norm for this cancel? and if this is the case is it a fiscal cancel or postal?
Some time back Malcolm Groom was kind enough to tell me the following "I have seen this canceller but only on loose stamps (and only on the higher values like 6d Tablet and in red). Your interpretation of the initials is correct. It is recorded on cover and as a back-stamp so is known postally used. Your examples are probably from documents where poundage has been paid. I think they are referred to in the 'Green books'"
Money Order & Savings Bank Launceston Datestamp
Money Order & Savings Bank Launceston Datestamp
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Re: MONEY ORDER & SAVINGS BRANCH DATESTAMP
Here's a couple more cancels and from same year (1896) - also on higher values.
I would regard these as postmarks rather than fiscal cancels because if they were used to pay for "poundage"
that would constitute a postal fee (as set out in contemporary schedule of postal charges) and
not stamp duty where the revenue would have been directed to The Treasury.
The M.O. & S.B. LAUNCESTON datestamp can be found on stamp and cover indicating that there
was some postal use too.
I would regard these as postmarks rather than fiscal cancels because if they were used to pay for "poundage"
that would constitute a postal fee (as set out in contemporary schedule of postal charges) and
not stamp duty where the revenue would have been directed to The Treasury.
The M.O. & S.B. LAUNCESTON datestamp can be found on stamp and cover indicating that there
was some postal use too.
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Re: Money Order & Savings Bank Launceston Datestamp
The pound value.
Re: Money Order & Savings Bank Launceston Datestamp
Another 2/6d used to pay the poundage has turned up.
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