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Found some more for Puzzler
Thank you!
Here is a link to the Marcophilie (cancel collecting) French site (in French):
http://marcophilie.org/Click on 'Aide Ă l'identification par la forme' (second from last) to see cancels arranged by shape (or forme).
I believe that different shapes were used at different times to denote different types of post offices or different types of conveyance or transportation, such as maritime (packet boats)(paquebot), railways (convoyeur lignes), pneumatic underground mail, airmail, etc. There are also different cancels for telegraph usage (some hexagons here also).
On some hexagon cancels, the railway types, (our RPOs or Britain's TPOs), you would see the 'A' between place names, such as Here A There, where on North American RPOs you have Here & There.
Please excuse my not using the correct accents and grauve? marks over appropriate letters.