Let's See Your Heaviest Or Ugliest Cancel

The old cork cancels on 19th century stamps could pretty much obliterate a classic stamp. Some of those cancels, however, had character and gave the item an added value based on the scarcity or desirability of the marking.

Today's amorphous, dot matrix slogan or pictorial markings have a colder, mechanical look...but they are equally as effective in obliterating the stamp image.

Let's see your heaviest or ugliest cancels. Ugliness also is in the eye of the beholder.

This one fits the description.

Postage stamps have nothing on some types of revenues in the concept of the "heavy cancel". For example, by law, stamps paying the tax on denatured alcohol were first nailed to the container, then cancelled with a black roller cancel, and were then supposed to be shellacked or varnished on top of that. It is therefore impossible to find a used stamp that is even complete.

A couple of Queen Victoria beauties.

ananthveerappan you have to give each scan you upload here a distinct name.

Thanks Jenny2U. Checking my other posts too...

A french Ugly Sower !

This is a recent stamp (2013) that got hit hard, at least twice.




I'm sure I have others, this is just the first one I ran across after seeing this topic.

Here is an ugly cancel on a block with plate number