1882 New South Wales #62-D Victoria W/Writing & Date

Hello everyone..can anyone tell me if this stamps value,regardless of the little bit missing on top right,is higher valued with the writing on it and the date as well,I see these selling for over $100.00 and none I see have this writing on it

That kind of cancel is almost always a revenue cancel, which drops the value very significantly. Not to zero, perhaps, but close to it, relatively speaking. They are common, but they are often purged out of collections before you'd see them, which might explain why you haven't run across one yet. Literally, many collectors throw them away.

(A revenue cancel means that the stamp was used for revenue purposes rather than postal purposes.)

The damage takes it the rest of the way to zero.

All that being said, there are a very few places, for limited times, where a manuscript cancel is still postal in nature. That's territory for a specialist, so you have to assume that each cancel like this that you find on any British Commonwealth material is a revenue cancel, until you get the right research under your belt.

Thanks so much Cjd this is so very good to know

I could add that I'm not one of those that throws away stamps with revenue cancels...but then, I like revenue stamps, so take that with a grain of salt.

I actually bought this stamp for the pen cancel, even though I have multiples of the stamp already, and even though the revenue cancel supposedly devalued the stamp:



I think it has eye appeal.

Never throw stamps away.
pass them on, if you don't like them,
certainly pass them on to me
(or Aimee here on SCF who tutors young students in philately)