Numeral Cancellations In Sequence

I would note that previous posts had already taken the series to 18, thus my post illustrating 15-19 incremented the series by only 1.

If you want everyone to have a chance to post their favorite example of a certain number in reasonable order then you will need more rules to increment by a number per day or something like that. Good luck herding the cats here.

My bad, John is right, he only incremented the count by one, even though he posted a sequence of 5 numbers in one post. In the future I will aim to wait at least a day with no one posting before uploading one of my own.

So let's proceed on the assumptions that neither John Becker nor ZebraMan nor I has done anything evil, and that nobody is annoyed with anybody else.

27 is next, and here's a Penny Red (Die II, Plate 100) to prove it:



The cancellation comes, again, from London, but it's impossible to identify the sorting office, because the letters in the upper part of the obliterator (such as "E C" or similar) are missing.

pjr,

By process of elimination I can tell you it's a London SW postal marking.

When I wrote, "It's impossible to identify the sorting office," I forgot how clever SCF members are.

So in full it would be "S W 27". Does the 27 means Clapham, as it would have done without the "S W" a few years earlier? (Clapham is certainly in south-west London.)

The 27 device is just the number of the device used at the Head Office of the South West District at Little Charlotte Street.

The device used at Clapham looks completely different.

See "District Post Cancellations 1840- 1857 - Horizontal Ovals" here:

https://www.gbps.org.uk/information...ications.php

Here comes a shoeprint killer number 28

This type of cancel in known as "an ellipse killer", comes with numbers or letters in center.

Number 29 (Dordrecht, Netherlands)




Jan

Another 29, from Philadelphia

It takes a while to dig up examples filed in non-numerical places. I wil back up and share a 24 cent RATE marking used as a killer:


And these four are not device numbers in a typical sense either, but instead are all numbers from the Boston area Zone System instituted in 1920 to number each Boston station and branch and the nearby outlying offices.
They are a direct forerunner to today's Zip Code.

30:

Number 31: Bandjermasin, Netherlands Indies




Jan

I've been waiting to post this one...