Why Are This Law Stamps Hole Punched...?

Hi guys
Does anyone know why this used law stamped were hole punched.../

That's the cancel.

Must have gone through the letter also...Cjd...Hope there wasn't anything important in the cover....

Because you added the wink, it probably goes without saying that you know that they would have been used on documents and not on the outside of letters, but in case anyone else is scratching his or her head...I'll say it anyway.

I have never seen geometric shapes for hole-punches before. Is there any significance to this?

I read here on scf a few days ago that it was common for cleks to have the stamps on a spike at there desk, maybe this is just the punch hole that they had ?

Jack, I think the holes were performed by a hand punch, similar to the shapes punched by ticket collectors on Trains, buses and Trams.


LHS hand punch RHS desk spike puncture

(BTW werts scan was posted before on SCF)

True

The punched holes with the revenues 'are' the cancel. A lot of companies that had to use revenue stamps for business and tax purposes had their own style punch made up and you can find a variety of these on the different revenue issues.

Chimo

Bujutsu

These are usually referred to as "cut cancels"

I think of cut cancels as much more along the lines of the damage that would be inflicted by a razor...a slice or slices, or even a herringbone of slices.

Sometimes cut cancels end up with "gouges" removed, but sometimes no material is removed at all, and you just have some parallel slices.

I think in terms of written descriptions, "punch cancel" and "cut cancel" would mean two different things. Probably less important when a picture is available.

My 2d. Perfectly willing to be corrected, as always.

I am leaning towards "punch cancel"....Makes sense to me...???

I am trying to find my odds and end box that contains some Canadian revenue stamps with the cancels in question. I can't remember exactly what the official name for this type of cancel is. I know that I have a stamp 'cancelled' from the firm Wood Gundy and they used a punched / cut "WG" impression.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I would lean towards "punch cancel"as it was probably achieved by using a hole punch of some sort to remove the paper to show that the stamp has been used.

Probably a hand held punch that you could buy in a paper supply store along side of school supplies

I am inclined to think that too Wert.

My reasoning is because the stamps are punched in different locations on the stamps and a lot of these stamps were hand punched while still on a document as well.

Just a theory.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Punch cancel works for me as well.