For those who might know, I have a question. Is the two-letter abbreviation JU used by the Royal Mail in cancelling stamps to indicate the month specific to either June or July or might it be either? Most postmarks I have seen on GB Machins use the three-letter abbreviations JNE for June and JLY for July, but some, such as those illustrated below, simply use the two-letter abbreviation JU.
Is the cancellation date ambiguous, or can one date these specifically?
It is a shame that the first strike is not complete. This is a counter stamp obviously from a small sub post office. Ware is not a particularly large town, so this is from one of a small number of outlying town offices, or possibly nearby rural office. Not valuable but not common.
Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 28 Jun 2016 07:36:07pm
re: Date abbreviations on cancellations?
Imagine the money saved in ink
by using just two letters
instead of a wasteful three letters
to determine the date of cancellation.
Every little bit counts.
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Here in the states, considering all the packages I get with uncancelled stamps on them, I think USPS has inadvertently come up with their own solution to reducing ink usage...
Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 29 Jun 2016 12:56:22pm
re: Date abbreviations on cancellations?
" ... Here in the states, considering all the packages I get with un-cancelled stamps on them, ..."
Possibly both RM and USPS are in cahoots in that, as much of the mail I get from the UK lacks even a cancel on the cover that would just mean the stamp was not in the correct place and thus creating, from the number of "For the specialist one, two, or even three hundred postally used unconcealed stamps. For specialists to study, of course." blue and gold NVI stamps I see advertised, thus creating a cottage industry.
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