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Can You Help Identify This Red Cancel?

 
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Posted 09/20/2017   03:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add TangStamps to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Could anyone identify this red cancel?
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Posted 09/20/2017   07:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Battlestamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's a PAID cancel.
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Posted 09/20/2017   09:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chipg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Probably an Exchange Office Paid cancellation. The largest use of a pair of these stamps was to pay the 24c per 1/2 oz rate to GB. The Exchange office in NY or Boston would have cancelled it with the date it was sent to a ship and what the credits of debits to each country would be. Red ink denoted credit, black denoted debit, as in "US gets credit of__ for the transport of the letter, with GB getting the rest."

Hope that helps.
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Posted 09/20/2017   10:24 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Richard Frajola to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Possibly a Providence RI regular Paid cancel if not an exchange. The paid on the 1869 cover linked below was used as early as the mid 1850s in boith black and red.

http://www.philamercury.com/covers.php?id=12125
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Posted 09/20/2017   10:40 am  Show Profile Check sinclair2010's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add sinclair2010 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think it is a London transit marking.
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Posted 09/20/2017   10:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add txstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It looks to me like its probably one of the tombstone London transit markings.
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