Bullseye And Socked On Nose Cancels

The postal service in Iceland processed incoming mail from Faroe Islands and this stamp received a Reykjavik 102, April 10, 2013 machine postmark.

So this will be be my first 'stamp' post here on the forum.....

I'll start of with a pair of stamps from Australia.

This is a pair of Die I 3d Kangaroo stamps with a socked on the nose cancel dated 14 SE 15 from Pingelly, Western Australia. The stamps also have inverted watermarks which is a bonus!!

The pair has a few rough perfs though.

Pingelly is located about 160 kilometers from Perth and had a population of 800 or so people in 2016.

Next up is a stamp from across the ditch - our friends in New Zealand.

This stamp comes from the 1900 Pictorial series and is the 1 1/2d stamp, Boer War, with a nice socked on the nose cancel from Ross, New Zealand dated 19 May 02.

Wooders rates this A Class type cancel as a rarity 2 so it isn't rare at all, but it is almost perfect.

Ross is located on the West Coast Region of the Southern Island and has a current population of around 300 people.

Next up is a 12/6 stamp from Bermuda with a "Grace Line Bermuda" cancel dated OCT 31 1940.

Not sure what the stamp was used for. The stamp was in a collection that I bought many, many years ago.

Nice work MY.
Lovely Triplex.

4 Mar 1940 The Grace Line announced yesterday that its two cruise ships in the Caribbean service would add Bermuda as a port of call on all voyages beginning with the departure of the Santa Paula on Friday.

https://www.nytimes.com/1940/03/04/...ula-and.html

PINGELLY is 90 Kms away from our place.

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The 1.5d "The Empire Calls" is a cracker, really like the design,
It satisfied the need for a stamp to cover the new postal rate for newspapers going overseas.

New Zealand had just sent their first troops overseas to fight in the South African war.

Laurie Franks considered this stamp "One of the most drab stamps ever produced by this country"
I have to disagree.

How about this new look Lincoln? once a president now a Roman soldier!

That tickled me, nice to have a chuckle to start the day...

He would be the greatest Roman soldier I am sure.
That October 31, 1940 postmark makes that stamp come alive. Rods post really makes it come alive. I agree with his disagreement, stunning stamp.

Again from New Zealand, a huge "WELLINGTON PARCELS" 1? DEC 1935 SON cancel on a pair of 5d Swordfish stamps.

The huge cancel just fits on the pair. A couple of small perf faults near the "G" in Wellington, but do not really detract from the item. I saw this pair in a huge lot of NZ 'stuff' (crap?) and just had to have it.

The stamps are CPL8b (SG563c)

From Sweden. A typical SON cancel from Stockholm:

Next up is a 'whale' of a size stamp from Canada.

I usually don't collect modern Canada even if the stamp has a nice cancel, but I saw this in a club circuit book and bought it. The cancel is nicely placed and doesn't detract from the stamp at all.

Scott 2405 $10 Blue Whale.

CTO.

melbourne yankee:
The 12/6 was the exact rate used for passport/visa fees, 1928 to late 1952. I've seen them cancelled on airline ticket folders, for one.

I'm guessing that this value was intended for the revenue/fiscal purposes noted above. Note that there was no George V 12/6 stamp inscribed POSTAGE/REVENUE but there was in the same design inscribed REVENUE/REVENUE.

And now we return you to your regular programming.

One from Switzerland:

A ZURICH 11 V 77 - 7 "FILIALEI" SON cancel on a 15C seated Helvetia.

Zumstein catalogue number 39.

Every once in a while I can find stamps like this with superb postmarks in the circuit books, but they really are few and far between these days.




Will probably load a few more stamps to the thread over the weekend as Victoria and Melbourne have entered another lockdown. This one for five days which has resulted in the cancellation of the scheduled stamp club meeting this weekend. Bad timing again as usual.

hy-brasil,

Thanks for that information which I will put in the album near the stamp.

So can I assume that Grace Lines was acting for the government and applied the cancel when collecting the money?

Would one consider this as "used" then? And what would the result be on the value of the stamp? I doubt that there would be many real postal usages of this stamp.......