Wednesday, 4 January 2023

Climax Rubber cancels from Donyatt and Drayton

From 1890 into the 1920s, Climax rubber cancels were prevalent in village post offices.  The cancels always had a date across the middle in a 'day MMM. YY' format. The early ones were in violet ink while later ones were in black.  Severely distorted cancels occur when the wrong ink had been used by the postmaster.  [Annoyingly some eBay sellers refer to this type of cancel as 'skeletons', a pain when you want to search for real 'skeletons'].

Here are a couple of examples, the first is from Drayton in violet in 1907.

Th second is from Donyatt in black in May 1920.



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