The next series of posts are all about UDCs (undated circular handstamps) - these handstamps were issued to typically village Post Offices, mainly for use on outgoing mail, while larger post offices were issued with dated barred numeral cancels.
Starting at 'A', here are a couple of examples of the Ashill double-arc udc. The UDC was issued under Taunton in September 1850. This first example in blue is from November 1856 ...
... the second example is from January 1857, also in blue. It has a nice London cachet "Received open and resealed / at the General Post Office".
After the undated double-arc handstamps, an undated single ring handstamp was issued in September 1858. Below is the only recorded example, used in March 1859, though one spelt "ASHIL" is recorded used in June 1860.
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