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3 Queen Victoria Small Queen Cancels

by | Jul 23, 2015

Not in a pithy mood lately so I’ll just share some of my Small Queen cancels with you. I have a couple hundred – collected mostly for the various cancels and colour variations. Good fun on a cold miserable winter day. I spent a week, in the spring, scanning them all in to my laptop and cataloguing them.

Scanning them gave me an opportunity to examine them up close. The details are much easier to appreciate on a screen rather than squinting through a magnifying glass. So … two bulls-eye and a fancy leaf cancel. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d tell you about them. But …. just enjoy the beauty of them instead.

small queen bullseye cancel Small Queen - bullseye cancel
Small Queen Cancels fancy leaf 1 small queen
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