Among my George V stamps from the 1912-24 issue, I found this specimen that I classify as SG#375. The fact is that the cancellation date is 14/10/1911, almost a year before the issue date that appears in the Stanley Gibson catalog, which dates the first issue to 9/10/1912. Could it be a mistake by the post office?
The first postmark shown by Murasama is a London Newspaper Branch marking, with a pattern of dashes around the edge.
Many of them have the date in the form DD MM YY in one line, with a letter or number underneath, so the year is somewhere in the 1920s for this one. The number underneath probably just identifies the particular cancelling device.
The second postmark is a different type, in which the date is expressed in two lines: MM DD above YY, so 23 December 1911.
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