I have some of this age with a circle shaped group of parallel lines with the word "CANCELLED" in the middle.(Odd that a Hispanophone country would cancel their stamps with an English-language stamp.)
The fiscal cancellation decimates the stamps value, I guess because it is not postal use. Or is there another reason?
The word cancelled was placed there by the printer, Casa de Moneda y Especies Valoradas, and as such quite collectible, although not particularly valuable.
This "Cancelled" is simply a postmark of normal postal usage in those years in Chile. These postmarks arrived to the country in 1861 (from London) with a new delivery of stamps printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. (Scott 11,12,13) and was used until 1880's. Here some examples :
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Posted 01/03/2010 10:26 am
