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Came across an interesting pair of embossed shillings and I am wondering whether to go for it. Are the markings on the face of the stamps cancellation or just ugly stains? Never seen "cancellation" like that before. 
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Strange. There are also the bottoms of two more at the top of the pair. And are those aliens along the bottoms???  Sorry, people. I'm at a loss of what to do with myself this afternoon. |
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Appears to be faded pen cancels as I have seen on other old stamps. Unstable ink or perhaps someone tried to remove the cancels which was a common activity in earlier times in an attempt to use them again for postage. |
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Loupy, manuscript cancel came to my mind, but I would have thought black ink would be a typical colour to use. |
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Itma, the printing process for these embossed stamps was a very tedious process, resulting very often in the printer overlapping the designs. This is why it is sometimes hard to get 4 margined cut squares. |
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Nice research item ,may not appeal to most collectors but if I was doing a page on this era ,I would show that item .
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| Edited by floortrader - 01/14/2019 07:29 am |
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I actually don't mind having this pair in my collection, but at the right price. |
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The manuscript cancellation is along as the same lines as the penny black we talked about last month. Little to no doubt it was within regulations.
I'd be going for it, multiples of the embossed issue are always worth securing for your collection. |
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Just curious, is there a standard to adhere for manuscript cancellation for early gb stamps in terms of ink dye etc? |
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Just curious, is there a standard to adhere for manuscript cancellation for early gb stamps in terms of ink dye etc? Opinion: Inks of all kinds can be found, it depended on the office, and the management, or the business and the management. Very early script cancellations, especially on revenues was "Iron Gall Ink" made from the Oak tree, highly acidic it made holes in the stamps.  From my Straits collection, early Iron Gall Ink, the paper down to Her Majesty's head, has been completely eaten away.  |
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| Edited by rod222 - 01/13/2019 11:04 pm |
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Rod222, good piece of research. Learnt something About iron gall ink. The ink is said to be acidic and damages paper fibre, the example I posted seems rather mild. I would not have expected such an ink to be washed off easily. |
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| Edited by pennyblackie - 01/13/2019 11:37 pm |
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PB,
I doubt if your example is Iron gall Ink, it is densely black, and appears to remain that way.
Yours is of a different mixture, Not that rare to find faded Ink Pmks on early Brit.
The ways your marks appear, it would suggest a water based ink was used, and flooded the items.
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Sorsh, I agree on the low tech part. Each embossed stamp was printed one at a time, making it a time consuming and physical job. This appeals to me as each time I look at the stamp, it will remind me of the work that went into producing it, very different feeling as compared to looking at a stamp that is churned out by a printing machine. |
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