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Posted 07/23/2017   1:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add jamesw to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Not sure if this question is in the correct category, but I'm sure I'll be told.
These cancels are on the back of a folded letter sent from Paris France to Cheltenham England in 1852. Obviously the black mark is a transit mark stamped in Lingne-du-Calais.
But I'm curios about the red cancellation.
There doesn't appear to be a denomination on the front of the letter. There is a script mark which could be a you or W. So I'm thinking this letter may have been unpaid.
Do you folks think this red mark is a French postal carriers mark, OR a British Duty Mark, which would have been applied to an unpaid letter.

The mark reads AU 30 JA 30 1852




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Posted 07/23/2017   2:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Please post scans of the entire front and back sides. Trying to interpret a cancel out of the fullest context available is liable to errant interpretations.
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Posted 07/23/2017   3:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Absolutely, sorry John. I should have known better.
Here's an image with front and back. Just a letter cover, no contents.



Just a thought, but I'm leaning toward it being an English mark, myself.
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Edited by jamesw - 07/23/2017 5:12 pm
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Posted 07/24/2017   5:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, typical style for a British marking. "AU" is just an internal control for the cancel used, I think probably from London. This style of marking used on stampless covers here:
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http://www.postihistoria.info/aihea...nticmail.pdf

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Posted 07/24/2017   10:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you hy-brasil. So you think London transit cancel, on the way to Cheltenham?
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