More Belgian Precancels

Just curious if anyone can decipher the precancels on these stamps? I searched the forum and did find a post that included this same precancel but there wasn't any explanation.







Thanks everyone.

Hi

The dates you see on the stamps were the periods of postal validity. For example, your top stamp could be legitimately used from July 1, 1952 to June 30, 1953. The standard catalogues will not list these precancels. I know that the C.O.B. (Catalogue Officiale Belgique) touches on them, though not complete and I have heard that there is another catalogue that lists them more thoroughly. I am not aware of the title of this catalogue. Hope this helps?

Chimo

Bujutsu

Bujutsu,

Thank you. Interesting way to write out the date. Would you happen to know the history behind the precancel? Just curious, I have a pile of these type of stamps without the precancel. And isn't the horn representative of Germany?

Thanks.

ken

Posthorns such as that are used in many countries as a symbol of the postal service. Not at all specific to Germany.

The International Precancel Catalog available thru the US Precancel Stamp Society lists all of these and about 25,000 other Belgium precancels. There are a lot of them.

Agreed there a lot of pre-cancels. The attached images show my three pages of them
regards
Tony

Hi Tony, there are indeed a lot of precancels but the three pages you posted are not precancels but Parcel Post stamps.

I think these are very fascinating - one can look at them in a lot of ways. Many people look at all the offices they are cancelled at. Belgium had a very dense network of railways, and it is possible to link the stamps and cancellations to specific line

There are a few threads on here and no doubt elsewhere that are worth looking up

Best wishes

Crispin

Hi Crispin
Thanks for the correction.
Yes apart from the top and a half rows the first and second images are Railway Parcel Post Stamps from Belgium.
But the top two and a half rows on the first image are Belgium pre-cancels; and the third image shows pre-concesl from the USA.

For information only, the P.S.S. G.B. have a publication called "Illustrated Glossary of Precancels" by Colin Philip and Dav Philcox, that is downloadable from the internet