Wonderful Socked-On-The-Nose Machin Found

Given that I collect Machin stamps by postmark, I spend a lot of time sorting Machin kiloware. (When I get up to 50 posts -- very soon! -- I'll start making trade offers. They'll either be my picked-for-postmarks-but-not-varieties Machins for more Machins, or my U.S. or World stamps for Machins.)

Anyway, I found this simply amazing cancellation. I am going to reproduce it on the cover of my in-design-progress album, and mount the actual stamp on the first stamp-bearing page. What do you think?

Yes a very nice slogan Joshua,
a few members here have found that one,
but not seen the full machine marking as yet, on cover.

I too had seen it -- one runs across it in Machin kiloware regularly -- but not quite as nicely. It could theoretically be a bit better, but there is no ambiguity whatsoever with the off-paper stamp as to what the mark reads, whereas both of your examples, without the piece of the neighboring stamp would require guesswork.

In sorting Machin kiloware I also found a couple of lovely perfins. Yes, Rodney, I know those are not uncommon either. :-) But having them so nicely socked makes it easy to disambiguate which holder of initials used the stamps. Or at least this is what Douglas Myall, world expert on Machins, told me when I offered to send the stamps to him (he had earlier put out a call for examples).

It's always nice to have something the world's preeminent expert thinks is worthwhile -- and even nicer to give it to him as a thank-you gift!

McGee --

That is a nice one and I like the bright green color.

You should make that your AVATAR --- post it over in the Avatar Request forum and Bobby will fix it for you.

KirkS

Great Stamps Folks! Vary Noice Indeed! This is probably my favorite SOTN Machin, a modern twist on a classic! An image of the complete postmark is below:



Ciao,

Skilo54

Between you guys and Novato I'm going to end up getting too much into machins...must resist...
Beginning to forget why I was resisting...
May be too laaaaaate...

Yah, that bright green colour jumps out at you and says, This Is The One.

Way to hunt kiloware Mcgeesorg !

I do like that Scottish? Maltese cross? (I think it is, trying to remember a recent thread that had it), well, the funny roundy crossy thingie. It is great.

Done! Thanks! And thanks to @KirkS and @Puzzler for the kind words.

@skilo54, that's a lovely stamp. The color on that one is charmingly somber.