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Belgium
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Hi, Isn't this postmark fishy? Can it be real? If not so, the stamp would probably be fake, too.  |
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| Edited by sigistenz - 08/13/2025 06:07 am |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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United States
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It is probably a genuine cancel since there would be no financial benefit to putting a fake one on this stamp. Mute cancels are sometimes fakes when a used stamp is worth significantly more than a mint example, such as a 459. |
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Belgium
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Thank you very much. This implies that the stamp would probably be OK as well. And I feel encouraged to bid on it  |
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Is it just the scan, or is there an orange "cancel" that, partly, is hidden by the black one?
See near the "U" of united, the lobe of the right ear (lefthand side), and showing through parts of the black cancellation. |
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| Edited by NSK - 08/13/2025 08:50 am |
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Bedrock Of The Community
United States
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Yes, there is something there. And the stamp is certainly a genuine example. |
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Valued Member
Belgium
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Thanks again. I don't have the stamp in person (yet?), this is the seller's depiction. |
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United States
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The difference in the guideline is simply the way the stamps separated at the time. |
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Does anyone know the origin or purpose of the generic circle cancellation? Here is a similar one on ebay right now, with a different diameter circle. I have seen a few others from this era, but never on cover to see how they were used. Was the blank circle (with no city or date) used like a mute oval on registered mail? Or on bank tags? Or postage due forms? Or ??? https://www.ebay.com/itm/364323801972 |
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United States
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Were these high denomination stamps ever used as receipt of payment for some very expensive postal-related service, similar to how whole sheets of postage dues were sometimes cancelled without being affixed to an actual piece of postage? |
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United States
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Does anyone know the origin or purpose of the generic circle cancellation? I think this would be considered a "favor cancel" and likely only cancelled for philatelic purposes. |
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