An area that is ignored by many stamp collectors in Belgium is the pre-cancellation. There are two types: the hand-roll pre-cancellation and the so-called typographic pre-cancellation. The first type is, as the name suggests, applied by hand. This...
In Part 1, pre-cancellations were discussed in which only lines appeared on the stamps. Later, the office name and the province name were used in the pre-cancellation. Both names separated by two horizontal lines. And that things sometimes go wrong with the application...
Many stamp collectors consider stamps with a pre-cancellation as 'less suitable for inclusion in their collection'. Usually because this type of stamp does not appear in the (pre-printed) album or because they do not know what to do with these stamps. If...
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