Philatelic Products/Subformats/Regular cancellations
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Regular cancellation
With Regular cancellation we mean all the postmarks normally used to cancel postal values (postage stamps, postal stationery ...) and prevent their reuse. Initially they were simple "ink blots", later information such as the city and post office where used and the date were added.
Rules
- ONLY POSTMARKS, WHICH ARE READABLE!
- The difference between postmarks of the same city must be visible.
- Only one postmark per type for each city / post office.
- The name of the city is used as written on the postmark, even if it has changed in history
- Unless specified in the postmark, the current administrative division is used, even if it has changed in history.
- If the current administrative division no longer belongs to the country that issued the postmark, a fictitious administrative division "FA - Former Administrations" is created.
- The postmarks of post offices on trains, ships and ferries will have the series "TPO - Travelling Post Office". In the code, the city will be formed by the initials of the cities at the three terminus (eg Torino-Milano = Tor-Mil; Appenweier-Oppenau = App-Opp)
- The postmark must be legible to be able to assign the code.
- If you have any postmarks not yet cataloged in Colnect, send a nifiller with only one copy (one of each type not yet present). Wait for it to be coded and included in the lists below, then enter the other copies in your possession.
Compilation of the Nifiller:
- Series - Enter the administrative division the city is currently located in.
- If not yet listed, enter the location where postage was used, grouping by administrative division as per ISO 3166-2 code in the following format:
- Province: BL - Belluno
- The ISO 3166-2 codes can be found on Wikipedia (Example, Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:IT)
- Format - From the list choose "Postmark"
- Subformat - From the list choose "Regular cancellations"
- Unique name - Insert the writings present in the postmark
- Date issued - Date present in the postmark
- Catalog code - It consists of Country City Type variants
- Country = IT (for Italy)
- City = City where the regular cancellation was used as it appears in the postmark. For names consisting of two or more words, the first letters (capitalized) of the second name is used. (Example:Cortina d'Ampezzo = CortinaA)
- Articles and prepositions such as sur or am are not considered as words for this rule. See the detailed instructions for a listing.
- Type = choose the type in the list below
- Variants = If present, the name or number of the post office where it was issued. Distinguish postmarks of identical codes by a dash followed by a number (example: FR Toulouse CA1 Gare/10)
- Description - here you can add additional information
Type list
C - Circular - Single
CA - Single circle
CA1 - With closed edge
CA2 - With semicircle below
CA3 - With two arches on the sides
CA4 - Two arches above and below
CA5 - Wavy closed circle
CA6 - Dashed circle
CA7 - With striped segments in the crown
CA8 - A thick circle of horizontal lines
CA9 - A thick circle of horizontal and vertical lines
CA10 - Single circle with inner segment in crown
CA11 - Two pairs of thin lines below
CB - Single circle with two parallel lines
CC - Single circle with Rectangle
CD - Single circle with segments and grids
CE - Single circle with Tendon segment
CF - Triple circle
CG - Illustrated regular Postmarks
CG1 - Circle with illustration
C - Circular - double
CM - Double Circle
CN - Double Circle with two parallel lines
CO - Double Circle with grids and segments
E - Elliptical
ROC - Circular – Single
ROC1 With closed edges
N - Nominal and Numeral
- The stamp was entirely covered by these cancellations while a postmark was affixed with the indication of the date and time.
NA1 - Round with bars and number
NA2 - Octagonal with bars and two lines text
NA3 - Triple circle with a number or letter, without the date and place of the city.
NB1 - Quadrilateral with or without number, and points
NB2 - Rhomboid with or without number, and points
NB3 - Rhomboid with or without a number and grid
NB4 - A star with or without a number and points
NB5 - Rhomboid with or without number, onli lines
NB6 - Square or rectangle; horizontal lines; framed or unframed
NC1 - Duplex canceller
O - Hexagon or Octagon
S - Squared shapes
SA - Square
SB - Rectangle
UF - Unidentifiable forms of postmarks
























