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A cancellation is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes, and colors. Modern cancellations commonly include the date and post office location where the stamps were mailed, in addition to lines or bars designed to cover the stamp itself. The term "postmark" refers specifically to the part that contains the date and posting location, but the term is often used interchangeably with "cancellation" as it may serve that purpose. The portion of a cancellation that is designed to deface the stamp and does not contain writing is also called the "obliteration" or killer. Some stamps are issued pre-cancelled with a printed or stamped cancellation and do not need to have a cancellation added. Cancellations can affect the value of stamps to collectors, positively or negatively. Cancellations of some countries have been extensively studied by philatelists, and many stamp collectors and postal history collectors collect cancellations in addition to the stamps themselves.
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John Harry Robson Lowe was an English professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
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The first postal service took place using mail sent with captains of packet ships, using agents in the England and in the islands for the end delivery. The cost was normally 3d. The first pillar boxes in Britain were introduced in the Channel Islands as an experiment in 1852, to collect mail for the Royal Mail packet boats. The oldest pillar box in use in the British Isles is in Guernsey.
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Brian John Trotter is a South African-born British philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2010. He was chairman of the London 2010 International Stamp Exhibition.
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Captain Charles Wispington Glover Crawford, CBE was a British Royal Navy officer who commanded the Devonport flotilla of motor torpedo boats. In his spare time he was a noted philatelist. He signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1934.
James Bendon is a stamp dealer, publisher, and philatelist who is an authority on specimen stamps. He wrote and published the first worldwide catalogue of Universal Postal Union specimen stamps and subsequently published philatelic books by authors such as Robson Lowe and James Negus.
Kenneth Rowe was a British philatelist who in 1995 was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. He was a specialist in the history of forwarding agents, intermediaries who facilitated the routing of international mail before the development of the modern postal system.
Steven Carl Walske is an American philatelist and philatelic writer. He was appointed to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2017.
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- ↑ "Roll of Distinguished Philatelists", Jon Aitchison, The London Philatelist , Vol. 126, No. 1445 (May 2017), pp. 194-195.
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