Cancellation (mail)
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A cancellation is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes, and col
Numeral 70 identifying Boyle, diamond bars for Ireland
Hand stamp of the type used to cancel postage stamps
1929 machine cancellation used to cancel 1d stamp on first flight cover from Nassau to Miami
An 1851 U.S. stamp with a pen cancellation
Cancelled-to-order
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A cancelled to order postage stamp, philatelic symbol, is a stamp the issuing postal service has cancelled, but has not traveled through the post, but instead gets handed back to a stamp collector or
Cancellation (mail)
…and location where the stamp was used may be readily seen. The prevalence of bulls-eye cancellations varies considerably by country and time period. Cancelled-to-order. Cancelled-to-order stamps, also known as CTOs, are stamps that have been cancelled by a postal authority, but were never used to transmit mail. CTOs…
A Cancelled-to-order plate block of the US newspaper boy stamp of 1952.
Cancelled-to-order "stamps" of Fujairah, one of the United Arab Emirates, showing unobtrusive placement of cancellations in stamp corners