Pen cancel

Pen cancel

In philately, a pen cancel is a cancellation (either of a stamp of , which led to the development of handstamped cancellation devices. According to Linns.com, "A pen cancel may also indicate that a stamp was used as a fiscal".

Pen markings on stamps that are to be distinguished from pen cancels are those on the 2003 Great Britain Occasions "Multiple Choice" stamps in which boxes are intended to be ticked with a pen, [cite web|title=New Great Britain Stamps - "Occasions": 4 February 2003 - From Norvic Philatelics|url=http://www.norphil.co.uk/2003/greet03.htm|accessdate=2007-09-27] as well as some other anomalous pen markings (for example, addresses marked on souvenir sheets). [cite web|title=Pushing the Envelope|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgCBkTYcTNE|accessdate=2007-10-31]

Pen cancels are sometimes seen today, as, in order not to lose revenue through stamp reuse, postal employees are instructed to obliterate (through use of pen-cancellation, among other possible methods), stamps missed by the purposes of a used stamp, or the cover if it is saved on cover, and this has led to complaints by stamp collectors that postal employees accused of overzealousness have applied overly thick and enthusiastic marker cancels. However, there have been thosed who have been pleased to see pen cancels rather than handstamps or mechanical cancelling on packages. [http://www.deadprogrammer.com/2004/11/]

A kind of pen cancel is the X-cancel; similar is the "double crossroads" with two overlapping X's. [POST OFFICE IN PARADISE: Cancels - Pen] Other forms the pen cancel might take are the crosshatch, parallel lines, "snake" and "blot." [http://www.hawaiianstamps.com/canpen.html]

Pen cancels may also take the form of notations by the canceller: [http://www.postmarks.org/covers/akron.htm] the city in which the item was apparently posted, [http://cgi.ebay.ie/COLOMBIA-Late-Classic-Cali-Pen-Cancel_W0QQitemZ190089271198QQihZ009QQcategoryZ145828QQcmdZViewItem] or perhaps "the initials of [the] local postmaster." [http://www.hawaiianstamps.com/canpen.html]

A used stamp with a pen cancel may be worth less than that with another sort. [http://www.psestamp.com/eyeappeal.chtml] Some people have apparently removed or attempted to remove pen cancels in order to pass off used stamps as unused to increase their selling price [http://reviews.ebay.com/Mint-No-Gum-Or-Used_W0QQugidZ10000000001267250] or for other reasons. There has been microscopic analysis of allegedly forged pen cancels. [cite journal|title=Comparison of genuine (1851-1852 AD) and forged or reproduction Hawaiian Missionary stamps using Raman microscopy|journal=Journal of Raman Spectroscopy|date=2002-03-09|first=Tracey D.|last=Chaplin|coauthors=Robin J. H. Clark, David R. Beech|volume=33|issue=6|pages=424–8|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2007-05-01|doi=10.1002/jrs.874]

Footnote

References

* [http://www.stamp-one.com/gallery/hopkins/1847pen.htm 1847 Issue with Pen Cancel]
* [http://www.postmarks.org/covers/pen_canx.htm A Pen Cancel affixed by a Postal Employee to "kill" the stamps]
* [http://www.linns.com/reference/terms/terms.asp?firstletter=p Linns.com Glossary of Philatelic Terms]


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