Fancy cancel
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fancy-cancel-237-18460424
title:
Fancy cancel
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A fancy cancel is a postal cancellation that includes an artistic design. Although the term may be used of modern machine cancellations that include artwork, it primarily refers to the designs carved in cork and used in 19th century post offices of the United States. When postage stamps were introduced in the US in 1847, postmasters were required to deface them to prevent reuse, but it was left up to them to decide exactly how to do this, and not infrequently clerks would use whatever was at han
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_cancel
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2021-07-07T07:41:36Z
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