location="oops.html" Victorian Towns Identifier

 

G.B Postal Towns
by John A. McCulloch

1st II SC - Earliest Use

Have you ever wondered about which town a partial C.D.S. came from?
For the Victorian and Edwardian Periods of GB ... here's a chance to find out.
Please see the "Notes:" below the searcher.
I know there are more towns which weren't on the lists available to me.
So ... If you find a town that is missing, please send me an email
including a jpeg of the cancel.

 Awarded March 2004
March 2004
IA-B SC - Latest Use Enter whatever letters
you find in the stamp's
cancellation.
 
Do use any spaces
shown in the chop.
 
Use a single space for
" . " or " , " or " - "
DO use any apostrophe " ' "
 
Put " + " between
Upper/Lower Names
(space-plus-space)
 
 
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Listings Updated on 23rd May, 2013

 
 
2nd I SC - Earliest Use
 
 
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NOTES:

Many town names or spelling variants have been added from J. H. Daniel's
1898 work. Some may be typographs -or- an earlier spelling used.
This book made no distinction between continuous and upper/lower placements, thus sometimes the "+" may not represent a lower placement, but a larger space and continuation. This is especially true of London District postmarks.

Hammer Numbers are found appended to the 'Office' as in "London + F S". Rather than list the individual hammers, a "#" is substituted, thus; "London + F S #".

Many thanks to those who have added a Post Town name or two to this list, but especially to Ian Gibbons of the Mulready Group, who in addition to contributing hundreds of additions, has extracted many an unclear impression's true identity and verified the existence of the Post Office in question.

Another major contributor is Jon Baker, bringing in a great many Edward VII cancels.

You might have noted that the town cancels shown are of the Squared Circle Type. Three are the earliest usages known for that cancel and one is the latest. Earlier or later dates may yet be found. These are a fascinating study in themselves, one of the reasons this search progam was written.

The 'bible' for GB Squared Circles is Stanley Cohen's work,
Collecting British Squared Circle Postmarks.

 

   
23rd May, 2013