6d pale buff SG123 J79(5) earliest use

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6d pale buff SG123 J79(5) earliest use

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Keep in mind that the dates in cancels are not 100% reliable. For example, in the one you've got, there could be a digit missing (1, 2 or 3) in front of the 1, meaning it was actually cancelled on Oct. 11 or 21 or 31, rather than Oct. 1. This could happen if the little metal number was set wrong in the hammer and didn't make contact (or else it could have fallen out altogether). I have examples from smaller towns where the clerk actually filled in the date in manuscript ~ talk about a conscientious employee!
Looking in my older (10th) edition of the Victoria Specialized, I see the date for J79(5) is given as 25 Oct 72. So I'm guessing it's an EKU, and that a slightly earlier example must have come to light between editions. Perhaps you've trumped them all with an Oct. 1 date, but I wouldn't be 100% certain of it.
Of course, it could simply be a pale chestnut example, too.
Hope this helps a little.
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As you can see from these two examples, dates could be faulty. The one on the left is a Dublin cancel missing the year date altogether (most likely 1872, but who knows?) and the one on the right has had the date (24) inserted in pen-and-ink, presumably by a conscientious postal clerk.
1s Green SG 117 plate 6 with CDS date errors
1s Green SG 117 plate 6 with CDS date errors
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