Belgium: The "Pizza Wheel" Roller Cancel.

They may or may have been used as precancels. The problem with rod222 quotes that it's from a blog format not unlike this forum. If the author would have produced a reference source for to support that postion or first person quote I buy it handsdown.

Greetings All

I have an older copy of the COB catalogue (Catalogue Officialle de Belgique). This type of marking, listed here as the 'pizza scroller' is not necessarily a precancel at all and no where in the COB catalogue is that type of marking listed in the precancel section.

However, there is a small footnote about this marking (in the regular postage stamp section) which states: "From December 10, 1869, stamps can be found with this type of 'obliteration'". Now, I am 'assuming' since this quote was not in the precancel section, that this is ia type of 'roller' cancellation that was used in 'place' of a regular cancellation. So, some of the loose stamps in any given collection may have been a stamp cancelled so, like a roller cancellation that MAY have been used on a parcel post or heavy piece of mail.

I have also read from other sources that this particular marking may have been applied to any unused stamps to clear them out before new stocks, or new stamps, face values etc wherer put in to use. They were apparently marked for destruction, but, like so many things in philately, some made it in to collector's hands.

Sorry I can't ad any more about this topic but hope this helps?

Chimo

Bujutsu

Yes, I am getting this type of result Bujutsu,Warrehouse.
What may have happened is that during a cancellation of a 'skip"
( a stamp that has failed to be struck) then the roller
has been applied, and the blog poster has interpreted this as a pre-cancel.
I'll still adopt an open mind, but agree the evidence seems
to be weighted in the negative.
I'll keep searching until I find evidence.
Philately at work