Cut Cancel - Characteristics?

This stamp got a pretty high price for this cancel, which is described as "cut cancel".



I am curious what are the main characteristic which distinguished it from this one, which is not a "cut cancel"?

The cancellation was done by a "Patent Cancellation". A Patent Cancel was a canceling device that defaced a stamp to prevent reuse. There were a number of solutions to the problem of permanently defacing the stamp, in general by destroying a part of the stamp's paper, and many of these were patented by the inventor. There were numerous devices(cancellations) used (tried) during the 1880's and be seen on the US Banknote issues.


Below is an example of a WESSON PATENT CANCEL. In this example the center points were "suppose" to puncture and cut the stamp paper. Unfortunately, it never worked properly. The "LEBANON" WESSON CANCEL is reportedly unique and used in Lebanon, Pa. (1881-1889).

Hi Hal, thank you for the answer. If I understood correctly, a cut cancel is combination of ink and embossed cancel. It should be visible and palpable in some way.

Yes.

US revenue stamps also have cut cancels without ink. The ones I recall seeing had two sets of parallel lines with the two sets at an angle to each other making a bunch of "V" shapes that are not connected at the bottom (I think the call it herringbone?)

Think I have several Ottoman stamps (early 20th century) with cut cancellations: a single, very neat slice ca. 1/2" at the edge of an otherwise uncancelled stamp. I have several, all done the same way, so hard to believe it's accidental. Does anyone know more?

I am not sure what else is there to know?
Cut Cancel Turkey
Note that they appear on high vales only, in my experience.
Sc#270 1914


Cut Cancel Sc#622