RAILWAY PARCEL CANCELS - POST YOURS HERE

[admin]

I just received these from an ebay seller. I don't believe two cancels have been previously seen- Colebrook and Claremont, ( ref John Hardinge, Courier Edition 52, p8) . These two are straight line railway issue type R4 rubber. The Devonport has certainly been seen before. I think its "Devonport Cancelled", date on 1 line in the centre.
If anyone has seen these before I'd be most interested to hear. There are many other not yet seen railway cancels - see the above reference . The article appeared in the most recent edition of The Courier and is a fascinating account of a little-know aspect of railway/telegraph/postal history.
Any other examples of these cancels would also be most appreciated.

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[Ross Ewington]

Here's a batch that were were offered earlier this year on eBay.

Launceston WL handstamp.JPG (55.34 KiB) Viewed 13695 times

I assume that "W.L." = WESTERN LINE

cancelled LAUNCESTON handstamp.JPG (39.15 KiB) Viewed 13695 times

cancelled SCOTTSDALE handstamp.JPG (42.08 KiB) Viewed 13695 times

cancelled EXTON handstamp.JPG (44.96 KiB) Viewed 13695 times

cancelled DEVONPORT handstamp.JPG (41.72 KiB) Viewed 13695 times

cancelled CAMPBELL TOWN handstamp.JPG (49.18 KiB) Viewed 13695 times

[Ross Ewington]

Oval CANCELLED PARATTAH (approx. 26x19mm) on a pair of 3d blue Garrett parcel stamps (3rd Issue)

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Note large diagonal white flaw through most of LH unit.

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[Ross Ewington]

Unframed double-lined CANCELLED WYNYARD

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[Ross Ewington]

CANCELLED LONGFORD on a 1951 9d red (!!) 'Diesel Locomotive' issue

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CANCELLED PARATTAH

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[Ross Ewington]

CANCELLED STANLEY ....what a pity about the stamp!

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[admin]

A couple of interesting Railway Parcel Stamp cancells.
The first two are "Cancelled / Launceston W. L." which stands for Wharf Line so John Hardinge tells me. As this is not a post office cancel it is not recorded in John Hardinge's recent book. I believe its quite scarce
The other cancel is Parcels Office Launceston oval (II) (24 Feb 1927 - 20 Sep 1933). As this is a Post Office canceller, one wonders how it came to cancel a railway parcel stamp.The date is 2? Dec 1932. Rated 3R for complete strikes ( on postally cancelled parcels, we dont have a formal rarity rating for strikes on parcel stamps as far as I am aware. )

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PArcel-Office-launceston-on-1-and-3.jpg (664.23 KiB) Viewed 12825 times