I'm not very familiar with customs stamps and this one made me curious. It has two serial numbers and seems to be vertically rouletted so the two halves can be separated. I would have guessed one half would go with the object passing through customs and the other half retained. But it has been cancelled and is still intact. What was the purpose in having dual serial numbers?
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Half of the pair (so to speak) would stay on the object being cleared, while the other half was removed (rather like a receipt, to show how much cash should have been collected).
They shared a serial number so that a spot-checking auditor could match that day's receipts to the goods.
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I am not at all sure that they are used; after all, there is no inspector's signature, or date ... and neither half is stuck to a product/shipment.
Perhaps that obliterative (how can that word not be in the SOR spell-checker ?!?) marking was intended to render them unusable because they were discontinued?
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"I collect stamps today precisely the way I collected stamps when I was ten years old."
The truth is within and only you can reveal it 01 Aug 2019 06:57:17pm
re: How did this customs stamp function?
GregAlex, I'm curious as to what your avatar is? I have never seen it before and it is quite lovely. My best quess is that it is an essay from the 1930's.