Here are a further series of items from Ilminster, exhibiting a variety of "401" barred numeral cancels, starting with horizontal ovals (known from May 1844 to September 1863).
Ilminster also had a 4-bar vertical oval.
As a complete aside, this next item did not go through the post but is a piece of postal stationery from November 1870 advertising a public meeting about forming a volunteer rifle corps in the town (it does fit here in date order).
Ilminster also had a 3-bar vertical oval cancel (known 1873-1880). The envelopes below may look like they have duplex cancels but it is two separate cancels, a vertical oval cancel and a circular one.
The large "1" on the item below was a redirection fee (the envelope was from Dorchester to Ilminster and was redirected to Honiton). The "1" would have been applied in Ilminster.
With the advent of the duplex cancels the clerks only had to apply one cancel. The first was a 4-bar cancel.
This was followed by a 3-bar cancel.
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