Canceller Impression Used As Stamp.

Which stamp was printed using a stamp canceller?

Prize: 5 seconds of fame.

This one?



OK, not the best image, but its from the USA's Abstract Expressionist set.
Its a picture by Hans Hofmann. Which makes it a "Hans Stamp" - Handstamp = stamp canceller.
No, don't groan like that! I demand my prize!

More likely one from Bermuda.

OK, OK then, 5 seconds is yours,
but I must warn you, I am calling your husband
to have him change the hidey place of the sherry bottle.

Hans Stamp, really.... next you'll be saying there's also a Terence Stamp.

Goodness me, the gals have got it!

C'mon Guys where were you?

(grumble grumble)

5 seconds to you you too 22crows.

(I think these were also called "cotton reels" No ??)

Five seconds? Really? Wow! Well, what shall I do with it? Ok, first I'll...
Oh, its over.
Well, that was nice.
Back to the sherry.

Congratulations 22crows!!

I've only just joined, so I missed this - but there's another answer - the New Republic handstamps from north west Natal between 1886 and 1888. Google image "nieuwe republiek"+stamp to see what they looked like.

There's an Indian States one as well - Jammu & Kashmir SG 86.

Thanks Peter,
Is this the one?

rod222,
Your library of images and info absolutely amazes me.

Thanks Russ,
I don't think it is much really,
just the ability to find them on the hard disk.
They have all come from years of curiosity,
this one from a princely states web site, when I was trying
to understand Travancore.
Along came Tony Mac :) with whom we are very fortunate to get chapter
and verse from that knowledgeable gentleman.

Sadly, the result of the thread topic at the moment'
lies at two, we shall have to disqualify David's contribution,
I checked L&N williams, and the Natal was a rubber handstamp
and not a canceller from what I can gather.
But a good try! :)

Rodney, your cheque is in the mail ...

Jammu & Kashmir SG 86, the Jammu Seal Provisional:



(Image of Lot 191 from the 2004 H.R. Harmer 'Kashmir Blue' sale. It sold for £435. Another lot, with one of these on cover failed to sell, at an estimate of £1000.)

and a case of the obliterator in black cancelling itself in red.

This stamp is still very controversial. Frits Staal, in his book The Stamps of Jammu & Kashmir' (Collectors Club, New York, 1983) says he believes these are postal forgeries, 'made by or with the connivance of postal officials'. He gives four reasons for his belief, which I must say I find fairly compelling.

That looks like what happens when I barbecue a hamburger

Heathen

Heathen? ...somebody call me...?

Thanks Tony, I am glad you explained it
fully, I was still confused as to what was going on in that splodge.