Bullseye And Socked On Nose Cancels

It's not the best postmark but it's the quickest one I could find showing a November 23 date. According to wiki Insjön is a locality situated in Leksand Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 2,149 inhabitants in 2010.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our USA members.

Skeninge, Sweden December 12, 1918

An ALMOST perfect bull's-eye!

BAH! HUMBUG!

LOL.
Oh my!!
To put that cancel in fuller context, here is the full slogan (Borrowed from ebay):

Stockholm, Sweden. Normally I would not submit a bull's-eye from such a large city but look at that postmark. April 13, 1850. According to my Scott specialized Sweden did not issue stamps until 1855. I'm having a hard time making that 5 into a 6 or 8. It couldn't be any other number. I guess somebody could have used the wrong year date slug in the hand stamp. Whatever the reason it's going to get its own page in my collection of Swedish stamps.

1860. Th crown of the "6" is curved not straight. There is missing ink either from a damaged cancel device or foreign material on the canceling device or stamp itself. (dust bunnies get me all the time)

Tourrettes sur loop, alpes-mar

This thread could use a bump.



Portugal, 1903 franchise stamp for the geographical society. In Scott, #3S2.