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Spain Mi155 - Special Cancels?

 
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Posted 03/07/2022   04:28 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add racines to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi!
Could this stamp be a Mi155?
In Michel there are specified for this stamp three different categories: unused with original gum (hinge), with postmark cancel and other special cancel.
What does "other special cancel" mean in this case?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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If you soak the paper off the back, you will find a wonderful blue design and numeral.
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Posted 03/07/2022   09:15 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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What does "other special cancel" mean in this case?


Wild guess.
A black multi lined stroke across the face of the stamp, horizontally.

These were referred to as "Remainders", stamps that so marked, had lost their postal validity.
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Edited by rod222 - 03/07/2022 09:19 am
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Posted 03/07/2022   10:59 am  Show Profile Check gmot's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add gmot to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Those are known as bar cancels or "barrados" in Spanish. For most stamps, they drastically decrease the value compared to postally used, but for a few lower value stamps, they are actually more valuable than used.

There are many different cancels typically found on this 1875 issue. Edifil specialized lists around 11, 3 of which are pretty common. Most commonly I've seen a lozenge with diamond in middle, or a circular date cancel. Plus the barrados and the telegraph punch hole if the stamp was used for telegraph purposes.

Appears that Michel lists both the barrados and the punch in a separate column (with the same value, which is not always accurate), so that's what they mean by "special cancels".

~Greg
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I suppose that in this case bar cancels fit to "other special cancels", especially the sign used by Michel is 3 small horizontal lines very similar with the bar cancels image.
Thanks a lot for your help!
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so that's what they mean by "special cancels".


Thanks Greg, saved.
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