Penny Red - Can Anyone ID This Numeral Cancel?

This cancel is causing me some difficulty. It seems to be #187, but there were two post offices in England that were allocated that number, Consett and Staveley. I don't know if there's a way to tell the difference between the cancels used by the respective post offices and I can't find any examples of either online to use for a comparison.

In any case, this cancel has a diamond shape, which means it is almost certainly not English. The Irish numeral cancels were diamond-shaped, which could make it Dundalk. However, I have been able to locate several examples of the Dundalk cancel online, and the diamond shape is much wider than this one appears to be. This is, by comparison, rather longer from top to bottom than it is wide. Judging from the Irish numeral cancels I've been able to find online, no Irish cancel had this particular diamond shape. So does anyone know what it might be?



Thanks for looking!

Used in Ireland.
The shape I have is 7 bars bottom, 6 at the top.
The question remains were the triangular designs
consistant?
Further to other info, I'd go with Dundalk.

Hi rod222, I agree. After some Googling, I did find an Irish cancel with the same diamond shape. It must certainly be Dundalk, therefore.

In fact, this may even be the typical shape for an Irish numeral cancel. See the sample image for an Irish cancel (the fourth one) here:

http://www.linns.com/howto/refreshe...1230_big.jpg

...and from the postal directory of 1852

For further reading there are some useful documents on the Philatelicsannex site - http://www.philatelics.org/referenc...ference.html

Link updated

My browser could not locate that link, Anthony.

I also couldn't get your link to work.

Sorry. I don't know what happened there. Perhaps it was the forum link shortening.
I have checked and it is now OK.
In case of further problems I have put it in non link format below.

"www.philatelics.org/reference/reference.html"