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All Forums Category: World Stamps and Covers Discussions Forum: World Classic Stamps Mint and Used

Belgium Precancel?

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Posted 11/24/2010 6:10 pm

ok, another Belgium question (guess what country I worked on all day)

I have a LOT of these square printed Precanceles? the dates just keep on going for a lot of the stamps.

question is what do the top and bottom line mean, I originally thought the top line was the precancel year, now I'm not sure as I'm finging the bottom lines to be different on some.

One of many examples below

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Edited by Edwin - 11/24/2010 6:13 pm

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Posted 11/24/2010 6:24 pm

Edwin
The stamp was in use between those dates. Found that in this article.

http://www.linns.com/howto/refreshe...rcourse.aspx

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Edited by timbres667 - 11/24/2010 6:26 pm

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Posted 11/24/2010 6:28 pm

Here's another line on these precancels:

http://www.belgiumstamps.org.uk/Preos.htm

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Posted 11/24/2010 8:09 pm

Ok, great info, I understand now top is a from, bottom is a too year bracket time frame of usable as postage.

any idea how many city's did this? I was going to create a page in my Scoot International for pre-cancels, but I'm not sure how to even set it up with my limited collection

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Posted 11/25/2010 12:38 am

I always assumed that these markings indicate Official Mail. Confirmation anyone?

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Posted 11/25/2010 12:43 am

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I always assumed that these markings indicate Official Mail

After reading the above two links this does not seem to be the case at all. Thanks for the post. I learnt a lot.

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