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What Does The Number Mean Inside This Cancel?

 
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Posted 02/23/2013   09:18 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add I Brake For Stamps to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
What does the number signify in the center of this shoe-print cancel?




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Posted 02/23/2013   1:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hal to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The Postal Clerk assigned to the canceller.
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Thanks Hal.
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Please Hal, I don't understand the word "canceller"

If it is letter (not number) ... is it canceller denomination too??
(I thought was referring to a postal station denomination)


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Posted 02/23/2013   6:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add new12collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Please Hal, I don't understand the word "canceller"


Like the device used to make the cancelation mark.
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If it is letter (not number) ... is it canceller denomination too??
(I thought was referring to a postal station denomination)


The number (or letter) appearing in the killer section of the duplex postmark may indicate the canceller number (possibly connected to the clerk responsible for its use) or they may also refer to the postal station where the duplex postmark may have been used.

In the Boston example above, I would guess that the "B" in the killer section of the Duplex Cancel would be referring to Postal Station B.
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Posted 02/24/2013   9:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Newby Stamper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think it looks more like a football than a shoe print. I'm new here but agree with wt1. APO's had numbers in the middle of the football as well and was a code number for a certain army post office in the western front. But hey I'm a newby stamper just learning myself.
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