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Posted 12/01/2012   7:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Partime to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
On Scott 82, I find this partial cancel. S.W looks to be partial, but maybe not. Wondering why there is no period after the W? Any help identifying it would be appreciated.

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SW (South West) is one of the original ten London postal districts (consolidated to eight in 1874).

There are a few different types of SW marks, and none have a period/stop after the W, though all but one have a period/stop after the S.

(This is generalist information, not specialist information...there might be more than one example without stops according to the specialists.)
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Std Type 12
11 bar
Issued September 12th 1870

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Quote:
Std Type 12
11 bar
Issued September 12th 1870


...and that is the specialist information...
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Posted 12/02/2012   12:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Excellent. Thank you so much for the information.
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Posted 12/02/2012   6:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Postal cancellations of London by Westley.

Not that I was au-fait with the example,
it's nice to see postmark queries,
one learns when responding, like this postmark could also be
confused with a Type 12 "too late" strike,
the bars are identical, however the too late did not come with
the numeral 50.
Fascinating stuff.

Note also the "toning" from the linseed oil in the cancelling ink.
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