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A recent addition to my collection. One nice find in "A big Box of Stuff" from an auction. I am assuming that the partial circular cancel indicates that this was used in Bristol. Can someone tell me what station the numeral indicates? I find it a nice addition to the mounted collection to identify point of use when possible.
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Bristol Somerset.
Duplex Hand Canceller.
Numeral 134 in 4-2-2-4 Killer
Usage 1st December 1874 to 1st May 1880
Most probably : Code at top = 18E

Beautiful Somerset "Hardy country"
Thomas Hardy : Novelist : Born : just after the release of the Penny Black.
Suggested reading : Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891),
Cynosure surrounds the delivery of hand written correspondence.
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Saved that site to my file and thank you. At least I was correct as to the place name. Read "Tess ..." many, many years ago. Have to say that a lot of the Victorian authors were a bit of a hard go for me. By the time I got to Hardy, I was a teenager and tended to find my mind wandering after just a couple of pages. Should really go back and give them another go. Dickens, Scott and Jules Verne, I could manage but Hardy was one that I never could wrap my head around. Thanks to both.
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Sorry for the delay in posting - as mentioned I've been crazy busy the last few weeks!

Here's some more Bristol 134 cancellations.



My understanding is Bristol was originally a part of Gloucestershire. Until 1974 it was its own county. I saw a documentary of canals just recently and remember the narrator saying Bristol at one time was the second busiest port after London.

Nice find backroads
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