Putting up this post caused me to update the write-up of this page to reflect the information in "Postmarks of Somerset: Steel Handstamps, Proof Impressions 1826-1921" by Mike Welch published by the Somerset & Dorset Postal History Group, which I obtained after my initial write-up.
It is not easy to distinguish which cancel has been used on the covers because the impressions are somewhat blurred and unclear. In particular the three-bar obliterator looks like the first one registered in 1849 (based mainly on the shape of the "5") though it is supposed to have been recut in 1851.
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