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Perkins, Bacon and Petch, printers of these stamps, recommended the use of black for the cancels of the 1 p black, but the black cancel was not satisfactory because inadequate cancels could not easily be detected. The ink for the cancellation was then changed to red, but could be readily removed with a solvent. Within a year, the stamp became red with a more fugitive ink, and the cancellation became black.
2p blue on letter with zoom-in:
The first Maltese cancels were done in red, but later black was also quite common. More uncommon colours as blue, violet, yellow, brown and orange also exist. Several types of these cancels exist.
Maltese cross with number '3'
In London, some of these Maltese cancels exist with a numeral in the center (used from March 1843 to April 1844).
(Brunswick star cancel, reduced size)
Numeral cancels:
Numeral obliterators were issued to replace the Maltese Cross obliterators. England's obliterators were oval, Scotland's rectangular and Ireland's was in the form of a diamond. London and surroundings had their own oval cancellers with a number surrounded by a circle or a diamond. A number was assigned to each office of importance and incorporated in the canceler.
London area cancels
Scottish cancel?
Ireland diamond cancels
At the same time a cancel with a small diamond with a number in the center was introduced; first with numbers 1 to 22, but later this was extended to nr 49 (in December 1849). The numbers 45 to 49 exist as double cancels, nr 49 even exists as a triple cancel (to cancel multiple stamps). Several types exist of these cancels, differing in the lines and the type of the number.
(Reduced size)
The above cancels are so-called duplex-cancels,
next to the cancel with the number the city and date is
indicated. Some examples of duplex numbers that I have seen:
1 : Aberdeen
3 : Abington
21 : Andover
46 : Banbury
53 : Bath
A Birmingham spoon cancel.
75 : Birmingham
107 : Bradford
114 : Dundee
131 : Edinburgh
132 : Brighton
152 : Cardiff
154 : Bury
156 : Dublin
159 : Glasgow
173 : Chatham
176 : Chelmsford
177 : Cheltenham (I've seen a sideways duplex cancel)
210 : Colchester
234 : Lamsamlet
250 : Devonport
303 : Folkstone
324 : Guernsey
376 : Honition (I've seen a sideways duplex cancel)
382 : Howden
383 : Hull
387 : Huddersfield
409 : Jersey
444 : Leamington
447 : Leeds
449 : Leicester
466 : Liverpool
488 : Lynn
493 : Maidstone
498 : Manchester
524 : Middlewich
545 : Newcastle
603 : Oxford
616 : Pulborough
Plymouth spoon cancel.
620 : Plymouth
628 : Preston
660 : Portland
683 : Salisbury
700 : Sheffield
723 : Southampton
763 : Swansea
799 : Tipton
805 : Torquay
860 : Wellington
883 : Wincanton
923 : Worthing
More information on these cancels http://www.gbps.org.uk/information/po-numbers/index.php
(Railway cancel 'GLASGOW & CARLISLE SORTING TENDER')
Mute British-Irish Telegraph cancel.
Parcel cancels, here from Guernsey and London Bridge.
"QUEENSTOWN", nowadays Cobh in Ireland.
A Bickerdike machine cancel.
Examples: 098 : Platres (Cyprus) 247 : Fernando Po 554 : Accra (Gold Coast) 556 : Cape Castle (Gold Coast) 582 : Naguabo (Puerto Rico) 598 : Jamaica 942 : Larnaka (Cyprus) 969 : Nicosia (Cyprus) 942 : Larnaca (Cyprus) 974 : Paphos (Cyprus) 975 : Famagusta (Cyprus) 981 : Limassol (Cyprus) 982 : Cyrenia (Cyprus) A : Jamaica (?) A01 : Kingston (Jamaica) A02 : Antigua A03 : Demerara (British Guiana) A04 : Berbice (British Guiana) A05 : Bahamas A06 : British Honduras A07 : Dominica A08 : Montserrat A09 : Nevis A10 : St. Vincent A11 : St. Lucia A12 : St. Christopher (=St.Kitts) A13 : Virgin Islands (Tortola) A14 : Tobago A15 : Grenada A17 : Alexandria (Egypt) A18 : Antigua A25 : Malta (from 1860 onwards) A26 : Gibraltar (from 1860 onwards) A27 to A83 : Jamaica A84 to A90 : Mediterranean mailboats A99 : Mediterranean mailboat A91 : Virgin Islands A93 : Virgin Islands A91-A98 : Atlantic mailboats (A96 also Mediterranean?) A124 : Aden B01 : Alexandria/Cairo (Egypt) B02 : Suez (Egypt) B18 : Atlantic mailboat B27 : Quitta (Gold Coast) B28-B30 Atlantic mailboats B31 : Sierra Leone B32 : Buenos Aires B53 : Mauritius B56 : Hongkong B57 : Hongkong B61 : Atlantic mailboat B62 : Hongkong B64 : Seychelles B65 : Rodriguez (Mauritius) C : Constantinopel (Turkey) C28 : Montevideo (Uruguay) C35 : Panama C36 : Arica (Peru) C37 : Caldera (Chile) C38 : Callao (Peru) C39 : Cobija (Bolivia) C40 : Valparaiso (Bolivia) C41 : Guayaquil (Ecuador) C42 : Islay (Peru) C43 : Payta (Peru) C51 : St.Thomas (Danish West Indies) C56 : Carthagena (Colombia) C57 : Greytown (Nicaragua) C58 : Havana (Cuba) C59 : Jacmel (Haiti) C60 : La Guayra (Venezuela) C61 : San Juan (Puerto Rico) C62 : Santa Martha (Colombia) C63 : Tampico (Mexico) C64 : Vera Cruz (Mexico) C65 : Carthagena (Colombia) C81 : Bahia (Brazil) C82 : Pernambuco (Brazil) C83 : Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) C86 : Porto Plata (Dominican Republic) C87 : St.Domingo (Dominican Republic) C88 : St.Jago de Cuba (Cuba) D14 : Singapore D17 : Penang D22 : Ciudad Bolivar (Venezuela) D26 : St.Thomas D27 : Amoy (China) D28 : Kiung Chow (China) D29 : Hankow (China) D30 : Hiogo (Japan) D47 : Cyprus D48 : Army headquarters of Cyprus D74 : Pisco and Chinca Islands (Peru) D87 : Iquique (Peru) E53 : Port au Prince (Haiti) E88 : Colon (Colombia) F83 : Arroyo (Puerto Rico) F84 : Aguadilla (Puerto Rico) F85 : Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) F87 : Smyrna F88 : Ponce (Puerto Rico) G : Gibraltar (from 1857-59) G06 : Beyrout K65 : Belize (British Honduras) K66 : Constantinople M : Malta (1857-59) M : Macao (from 1860 onwards)
The cancels A27 to A83 were used in Jamaica. A16 was used in England (Newcastle - on - Tyne), A19 in England (Appledore), A20 in England (Wickham Market), A21 in England (Redhill Surrey), A22 in England (Boxmoor), A23 in England (Fremington), A24 in England (Instow).
(A01 : Kingston, Jamaica and 'A02' Antigua)
('942': Larnaka, Cyprus)
('A25' Malta cancel and 'A26' Gibraltar cancels)
('G' Gibraltar and 'M' Malta cancel)
('A70' Jamaica?)
The Following cancels were used in British postal agencies abroad: 582 : Naguabo (Porto Rico) B01 : Alexandria (Egypt) B02 : Suez (Egypt) B32 : Buenos Aires (Argentine) C : Constantinopel (Turkey, nowadays called Istanbul) C28 : Montevideo (Uruguay) C30 : Valparaiso (Chile) C35 : Panama (Columbia) C36 : Arica (Peru, since 1884 Chile) C37 : Caldera (Chile) C38 : Callao (Peru) C39 : Cobija (Bolivia, since 1884 Chile) C40 : Coquimbo (Chile) C41 : Guayaguil (Ecuador) C42 : Islay (Peru) C43 : Paita (Peru) C51 : St. Thomas (Danish West-Indies) C56 : Carthagena (Colombia) C57 : Greytown (Nicaragua) C58 : Havana (Cuba) C59 : Jacmel (Haiti) C60 : La Guaria (Venezuela) C61 : San Juan (Porto Rico) C62 : Santa Marta (Colombia) C63 : Tampico (Mexico) C64 : Vera Cruz (Mexico) C81 : Bahia (Brasil) C82 : Pernambuco (Brasil) C83 : Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) C86 : Port Plate (Dominican Republic) C87 : St. Domingo (Dominican Republic) C88 : Santiago (Cuba) D14 : Singapore (Straits Settlements) D17 : Penang (now Malaysia) D22 : Ciudad Bolivar (Venezuela) D26 : St. Thomas (Spanish steamboat) D27,D28,D29 and D30 : China D30 : Hiogo (Japan) D74 : Pisco (Peru) D87 : Iquique (Chile) E53 : Port au Prince (Haiti) E88 : Colon (Columbia) F69 : Savanilla (Columbia) F83 : Arroyo (Porto Rico) F84 : Aquidilla (Porto Rico) F85 : Mayaguez (Porto Rico) F87 : Smyrna (Turkey) F88 : Ponce (Porto Rico) G06 : Beyrout
From 1858 to about 1865 some British ships carried number cancels; the cancels A79 to A99, B03, B12, B16 to B18, B27 to B30, B56 to B57, B61 and C79 seem to have been used for this purpose, examples: A79-A87; A88 (China), A92 (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and A39 (Sydney, New South Wales).
Other numeral cancels are: B31: Sierra Leone, B53: Mauritius, B54: Seychelles, British Naval Stations in Mauritius and Seychelles: B62 and B64, C29: Jarrow and F89: Savanilla (Colombia).
The cancel C43 was later used on Peruan stamps, I have seen it as late as 1900.
Several British post amts in China and Japan used stamps of Hongkong (see there).
('B32': Buenos Aires)
'C' cancel: Constantinopel, (now called Istanbul) and 'F87'
Smyrna, Turkey
'B01'cancel: Alexandria, and 'B02': Suez, (Egypt)
(C28 : Montevideo, Uruguay)
('C30' Valparaiso, Chile)
('C36' Arica and C38 : Callao, Peru)
('C41' Guayaguil, Ecuador)
('C60' La Guaria)
Ciudad, Bolivar (Colombia)
Stamp of Great Britain used in St.Thomas (Danish West Indies),
'C51' cancel and 'St.Thomas'
(C61 : San Juan, Porto Rico)
(C81 : Bahia, Brasil and C83 : Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
(E53 : Port au Prince, Haiti and 'F88' : Ponce, Porto Rico)
(G06 : Beyrout and normal Beyrout cancel)
(Great Britain stamps cancelled in Bolivia)
(Stamp of Great Britain, used together with a stamp of Peru)
(Army post office Bloemfontein, South Africa)
The cancels of Great Britain have been forged. Here some
forgeries and forged overprints made by the forger Fournier.
