Wilding Booklet type 24 CANCELLED query
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:00 pm
Advice please.
I have been shown a 2/6d booklet (September 1954 Tudor watermark) in which every stamp is overprinted “cancelled” with a hand stamp. It has a clean BPA cert from 2002 – the cert says: “as type 24”, which itself is extraordinary as the type 24 “cancelled’ was previously last used in 1920, but it is certainly 15mmx2mm so it can’t be the type 34 cancelled o’print (used up to 1948).
The booklet is “well-thumbed” so it is likely that there was a particular reason for its existence and whatever that reason was, it was used for that purpose and somehow survived.
Anybody any thoughts?
I have been shown a 2/6d booklet (September 1954 Tudor watermark) in which every stamp is overprinted “cancelled” with a hand stamp. It has a clean BPA cert from 2002 – the cert says: “as type 24”, which itself is extraordinary as the type 24 “cancelled’ was previously last used in 1920, but it is certainly 15mmx2mm so it can’t be the type 34 cancelled o’print (used up to 1948).
The booklet is “well-thumbed” so it is likely that there was a particular reason for its existence and whatever that reason was, it was used for that purpose and somehow survived.
Anybody any thoughts?