Here Are Some Nice Cancels.

Hi guys...Just thought I would share these...Not earth shattering, but kinda neat.
Robert

The best one is the "negative" S.

smauggie...i kinda like that one myself and found a link explaining what the reverse is is about and who used it..MAYBE..?

http://stamporama.com/articles/disp...AdpOBkQLYJUg

I also like the negative "S", and the "2" in dial killer on the 2c Green Scott 213.

Something I have observed is that the "W", "E", "N" and "S" are often associated with railway cancels denoting direction of travel, West, East, North and South.

-dave

I would think that the negative "s" is the numeral "2"

rohumpy...You really think my stamp is a "2" and not a "S"..Cant see what you are seeing..Here is my cancel and the double "S" cancel from the Stamparama web site to compare.

Did you mean the numeral 2 in reverse? Looks like a S because either end is curved and not a straight line as in most numeral 2. mho

Robert,
I have never been a cancel collector…until recently. I've always put back fancy cancels or those early stamps which had date/town type cancels and in the last few weeks have started to pull them together and mount them up. I know virtually nothing about them but it has been fun. I am about 25% of the way through what I have and I sent one ( a nice kicking mule strike) to Bill for a cert. Here is what I have completed so far;










Don

WOW Don...That is so impressive...Hey, I dont see an "S" cancel like I have..Sell you mine for $1,000,000.00...haha

That is very, very impressive.
Robert

And this "MUTE" cancel to...

Don,

Where are you getting those "tracings" you have beside each mark? Skinner-Enos and Cole? Something else? Are you scanning the pages for one? Inquiring minds...

I scan them and then use CorelDraw to generate a vector graphic for each one. I an saving them all off and could export them to other formats if desired. As mentioned I still have many of the 'better' ones still to do. If anyone would like copies of these cancels I would be more than happy to post a file that contained them all. Just let me know.
Don

This is an interesting discussion. I only collect V&A stamps but over the last year I have been focusing more and more on their cancels. The vast majority of these stamps were machine cancelled and only have straight or wavy lines. But from time to time I can find circular date stamps, killer cancels or slogan cancels. No particular value, just find it interesting to try to learn more about where these stamps originated.

Finding fun wherever we can.

Don,
So I am confused with your CorelDraw references. If I were doing this, it seems I would make a scan, delete out the background color of the stamp and then do some minor clean-up to the remaining cancel image, but quite a few of the "tracings" are not even close to the original. As an example, the target cancel (first page of your images, second row, at left) has an inner circle which has a completely different hole size and line thickness than the cancel on the stamp. Help lead me through this.
-John

John, if you are worried about accuracy, and is hard to see on some stamps...then just do it this way..no big deal...

But, I like the way Don has presented them to us.

Wert, Yes. That was the idea behind my question, because I believe accuracy is very important, espcecially with the tools available to do it today - as you have done.

John, I still like Don's presentation...He did a great job.

Robert