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Dumb Cancel - Austria? Yugoslavia?

 
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Posted 07/19/2012   07:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Bamra1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Postcard from Yugoslavia (picture is Dubrovnic, though that is no guarantee of where it was posted) to Graz in Austria. Dumb cancel handstamp.



Dumb cancels in Yugoslavia are very scarce, and tend to be grotty improvisations like this one:



So is the professionally produced handstamp actually Yugoslav, or was it added on arrival in Austria, having missed the cancelation process in Yugoslavia?

Any Austrian or Yugoslav collector seen it before?
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Posted 07/19/2012   1:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'd guess it's an Austrian dumb cancel for use on uncancelled stamps (so it doesn't state a date or location).
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Nigel
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Posted 07/19/2012   1:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Found it!

Here's an interesting page on Austrian dumb cancels. You can see similar examples to this one near the bottom of the page:

http://www.austrianphilately.com/du...ls/index.htm
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Nigel
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Posted 07/19/2012   5:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Back in 2008 I was searching for the "W1" cancel,
it had stumped all the people on our newsgroup,
I finally located it, unfortunately cannot
acknowledge the source of the following.


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Posted 08/09/2012   04:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bamra1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks very much everyone.
Disappointing (from a Yugoslav point of view) but pretty much what I expected.

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Posted 08/09/2012   06:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Pretty interesting stuff! I like the moniker "Dumb Cancels"...lol
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