Scott lists the Swaziland 1938 Geo VI definitive series as being issued on April 1, 1938.
Do I read the cancel on the stamp below as 1 IV E 38, correctly as 1 April, 1938, and, if so, may I consider the stamp as a first-day bullseye cancel from Mbabane?
I notice that the link you provided also shows a 1932 Mbabane cancel with an A in the date line between month and year as your image does. If E refers to an evening cance, might not the A refer to "afternoon?"
Yes it did, Don, on British Stamps, as I recall, as well as early India. The memory is a little foggy on the details. I'll rummage through my database.
Nope, sorry Don, my database has let me down, I am pretty sure, the webmaster of the British Postmarks, gave me a set of CDS codes, that indicated Time of day. I cannot locate the post, sorry.
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