Queensland Catalog of Receiving Office Manuscripts on Postage Stamps by Dr Jeremy Hodes: Queensland manuscript cancel marking types

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Queensland manuscript cancel marking types - crosses, lines, cork, squiggles

A wide variety of different markings such as crosses and wavy lines were used to cancel stamps at receiving offices in Queensland. Here are some examples

Crosses

Examples of crosses

More examples of crosses

Registered cover cancelled with crosses at an unknown receiving office. Seen at Abacus auction no 234

Lines

An example of wavy lines

Cork

Cork cancellations were also used. Seen on Ebay

More examples of cork cancels being used

1896

Cork cancel from Brisbane dated 1 April 1896. Seen on Ebay

Squiggles

Another way to manually cancel a stamp! Seen on the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Page

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A blog listing the different Queensland receiving office manuscript cancellations found on Queensland (Chalon, Sideface and Commonwealth) postage stamps. To find the receiving office you are looking for select from the alphabetical tabs above or the labels below

While hundreds of receiving offices existed for various lengths of time, almost all did not use distinctly recognisable markings. Most receiving offices followed the instructions of either not cancelling the stamp but letting the first "Official" Post Office that the mail arrived at do this, or they followed a later instruction to write the receiving offices' name on the envelope or postcard near the stamp. To see this you would need the envelope or postcard.

However, if the letter was a "local" mail, that is used in the same town / area, then this did have to be cancelled. This is where most of the crosses, names and initials come from. Occasionally these markings were also applied to mail destined for other areas.

All identifiable manuscript cancellations are therefore extremely scarce and hard to find, with the possible exceptions of Cania, Mt Larcom, Parson's Point and San Jose.

The rarity rating, given this caveat, is Scarce, for the most commonly found cancels, Rare, and then Very Rare where only 1 or two examples have been seen by me. All covers and postcards (with the possible exception of Parson's Point) are extremely rare and desirable.

Information about the receiving offices comes from Joan Frew: Queensland Post Offices 1842-1980 and Receiving Offices 1869-1927, published in 1981

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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Queensland manuscript cancel marking types - crosses, lines, cork, squiggles

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