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On mail, a cancellation (or cancel for short) is a postal marking applied to a postage stamp or postal stationery indicating that the item has been used. Modern cancellations are often applied simultaneously with a postmark, for efficiency, and commonly the terms "cancellation" and "postmark" are used interchangeably, if incorrectly. (The confusion arises because of the practice of some postal administrations of applying the postmark directly on the stamp, at the cost of legibility.) Look up cancellation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Machine cancellation, 350x150, by user:Alex756 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Machine cancellation, 350x150, by user:Alex756 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. ...
A selection of Hong Kong postage stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ...
Postal stationery: Postcard of 1895 A piece of postal stationery is an envelope, letter sheet, or postal card with an amount of postage preprinted on it, at the postcard rate for postcards, and (usually) at the domestic first-class rate for letter sheets and envelopes. ...
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The term "killer" is sometimes used as a more vivid synonym for "cancel".
A cancellation intended solely to prevent reuse of a stamp is sometimes called an obliteration.
History
Postage stamps were introduced in 1840 and thereafter immediately engendered a need to clearly indicate that the stamp had done its service. A selection of Hong Kong postage stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ...
1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Many early cancellations were pen cancels, simply the use of a writing pen to deface the stamp, but before the days of ball-point pens, these took longer to apply than a handstamp, and most postal administrations required the use of cancellation devices, either supplied by the administration, handmade by the postmaster, or purchased from specialized suppliers. Handmade cancels were typically carved from cork and are known in a bewildering variety of creative designs, collectively known as fancy cancels. Pen cancels may still occasionally be seen (sometimes done with marker), typically when a postal clerk notices that a stamp has not been touched by the automated machinery (though there have sometimes been complaints by stamp collectors of redundant pen cancels by overzealous postal employees). Download high resolution version (1056x504, 93 KB)larger image of Image:Pen-cancellation-small. ...
Download high resolution version (1056x504, 93 KB)larger image of Image:Pen-cancellation-small. ...
A pen cancellation on the cover of a letter of Rechnung, dated Jan 17, 1858. ...
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US 2-cent stamp of 1870, cancelled with a leaf shape in blue ink A fancy cancel is a postal cancellation that includes an artistic design. ...
A marker pen, or marker, is a term used to refer to various kinds of pen which have their own ink-source and usually a tip made of some porous material. ...
In the early period of the issuance of postage stamps in the United States a number of patents were issued for cancelling devices or machines that increased (or were purported to increase) the difficulty of washing off and reusing postage stamps. These methods generally involved the scraping or cutting-away of part of the stamp, or perhaps punching a hole through its middle. (These forms of cancellation must be distinguished from perfins, a series of small holes punched in stamps, typically by private companies as an anti-theft device.) See postage stamp reuse. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which...
Perfins are, in philately, any pattern of tiny holes made in the surface of a stamp. ...
In the earlier days of the postage stamp, postal officials worried much about the problem of postage stamp reuse, and invented a number of schemes to mark or deface the stamps. ...
United States patent number 6672623, "Modification of receiver surface to reject stamp cancellation information," is "a method and apparatus for [placing a] protective coating is over the... image area [of personalised postage with the personalised image] such that official cancellation mark placed over the second area will not permanently adhere to the personal image."[1]
Types of cancels "Used" stamps that have received cancellation in the course of mail service often are more highly valued than "cancelled-to-order" stamps, in which the stamps themselves have been cancelled for the benefit, or at the behest of, collectors, yet have not gone through the mail. A cancelled to order (CTO) postage stamp is one that has had its cancellation applied by the issuing postal administration before being sold to stamp collectors or dealers. ...
Stamp collectors like to see stamps which are either lightly cancelled or which have bulls-eye cancellations. Another phrase for 'bulls-eye cancellations' is socked on the nose (SON). Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects, such as envelopes (cover)s. ...
King George V socked on the nose in 1928 Socked on the nose (SON), in philately, refers to a cancellation in which the killer, or, if the postmark does not have a separate killer, the (typically circular) postmark itself, is right in the middle of the stamp. ...
A lightly cancelled stamp would have the postmark on a corner or small portion of the stamp. As lightly cancelled stamps are in general more valuable than heavily-cancelled (exceptions, discussed below, may be bulls-eye cancellations and special or rare postmarks), collectors have at times rubber-stamped (or handwritten) "philatelic mail" or the like on their covers to get the postal clerk or mail processor to cancel the stamps lightly. (It was perhaps from concern that a conventional cancellation device would damage some of Tonga's early foil stamps that a rolling cancellation device was employed.)
A bulls-eye cancellation is a readable postmark which entirely or almost entirely is on the postage stamp. They are favored by stamp collectors because one can see the time, date, and location where the stamp was used. The prevalence of bulls-eye cancellations varies considerably by country and time period.
Cancellations may either be applied by hand or machine. Hand cancellation is often used when sending unusually shaped mail or formal mail (e.g., wedding invitations) to avoid damage caused by machine cancellation.
The United States Postal Service regulations prohibit the use of slogans or pictorial material in regular hand-stamped cancellations (whether with or without killers).[2]
 Pictorial cancellation. Postal cancellation with special design. This post box is located at a historical site Somnathpur in Karnataka, India. The special postal cancellation is to act as a publicity / commemoration media for this tourist site. The special cancellation is done at no extra cost. But only the letters posted at this box located in front of the Kesava temple would get the special cancellation. The cancellation logo is the sketch of the temple. First day of issue of a stamp or piece of postal stationery is another type of cancellation. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1632x1224, 1849 KB) photographed by Pratheepps Pictorial cancellation. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1632x1224, 1849 KB) photographed by Pratheepps Pictorial cancellation. ...
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KarnÄtakÄ (Kannada: ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ) (IPA: ) is one of the four southern states of India. ...
First Day Cover for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, issued 22nd July 1981. ...
There are railway post office cancels, ship cancels, and highway post office cancels.
In the United States, while cancellations are nearly universally applied by the authority of the United States Postal Service, it is legally possible to use one's own cancellations on a letter bearing United States postage stamps — if the letter is delivered by the sender, its employee (in the case of a company) or by a private delivery service following the requirements of the "Private Express Statutes". Private cancellations have also been used in the context of local posts and applied to artistamps by their makers. Private cancellations have actually been used in Germany. Private cancellations are to be distinguished from private overprints. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government (see 39 U.S.C. § 201) responsible for providing postal service in the United States. ...
The Private Express Statutes (PES) are, a group of federal civil and criminal laws in United States (Title 18 United States Code sec. ...
A local post is a mail service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route. ...
Artistamp refers to a postage stamp-like artform. ...
Private overprints are overprints (pictures, text, or a combination of the two), rubberstamped or applied by some other method, to postage stamps (or, occasionally, postal stationary) used by some person or entity other than a government or other official stamp-issuing entity. ...
Pictorial cancellations In addition to everyday cancellations there are pictorial cancellations, which as the name suggests contain pictures or images associated with the commemoration of an event or anniversary. Some people attempt to use stamps relating to the theme of a pictorial cancellation on the envelope [3]. In Japan, distinctions are drawn between "Scenic Cancellations" (Fukei-in), "Small Commemorative Datestamps" (Kogata-in), "Large Commemorative Datestamps" (Toku-in) and "Illustrated Hato Datestamps" (Eiri-hato-in).
[4] In the United States a distinction is drawn between special cancellations, in which the killer is a slogan, usually encased in a rectangular box, and pictorial cancellations. There are regulations pertaining the special cancellations.[5]
 Cancellations for flight anniversary, 2003 The term "pictorial cancellation" is sometimes used, loosely and perhaps technically incorrectly, for slogan cancellations, which contain some sort of commemorative phrase in addition to the regular format of the cancellation. example of a first day of issue postmark. ...
example of a first day of issue postmark. ...
In the United States, what are officially described as pictorial cancellations (though there are frequently other pictorial cancellations if not officially so described — they are among what are called special cancellations and are special die-hubs added to machine cancels, which usually contain merely a slogan but sometimes contain a picture) are almost invariably -- there are a very few exceptions in which a particular post office uses a pictorial cancellation on all its mail -- applied at special "stations" (post offices existing only for a limited time, usually one day, at special events). The range of allowable subjects is very broad, and may include a variety of commercial tie-ins, such as to movie characters. There has been a change, however, and what were formerly referred to as "pictorial cancellations" are now frequently called "pictorial postmarks". Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ...
 A 1929 pictorial cancellation promoting the use of airmail. Pictorial cancellations may, though more commonly in other countries than in the United States, form the day-to-day cancellation of a station. For example, there are a number of permanent pictorial postmarks in India and Great Britain. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x457, 121 KB) US postmark from 1929 with pictorial slogan cancellation AIRMAIL SAVES TIME, scanned September 2005 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1200x457, 121 KB) US postmark from 1929 with pictorial slogan cancellation AIRMAIL SAVES TIME, scanned September 2005 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed...
In Japan there are several different types of what are there called "special postmarks":
- TOKU-IN: "[c]ommemorative hand postmarks with illustration relating to the event and occasions"
- EIRI-KIKAI-TOKU-IN: "commemorative pictorial postmark run on a special stamping machine"
- FUUKEI-IN: permanent pictorial cancellation[6]
There can also be pictorial cancellations applied by private local posts or to accompany artistamps on cover. A local post is a mail service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route. ...
Artistamp refers to a postage stamp-like artform. ...
Reference Review of Australian Pictorial Postmarks
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