Belgium Railway (Q) Stamps on Document

The reason for my question has to do with the cancel date on this type of overprint. The overprint was first used in Jul1928. Those first overprints had the year "1928" as the 3rd line of the overprint. The subsequent dateless overprint (i.e., 2-line overprint without the year) was used on stamps issued from 1929 through 1932. Unless you sneakily erased the year, you have the dateless overprint.

Now here's the interesting part. I saw the cancel date of 1Oct1928 on your newspaper stamp and thought that was strange. So I looked in Michel, and the catalog indicates the dateless overprint was put into use on 1Feb1929.

Of course, railway cancels are notorious for different formats and inverted/incorrect numbers. So I'm going to assume you have a cancel in which they never bothered to update the year on the cancellation device, rather than an early use or a missing overprint year error. Whichever way, it is an interesting stamp. Thanks for making the stamp available for me to pilfer, I mean posting the stamp for us all to see!

k

Thanks for the heads up.

(bumped up for crispinhj)

It sure does. Too bad. It was interesting.

rolf   It appears that the site died. The internet archive "wayback machine" appears to have saved some of the info.
Here is their saved version from 2013.
web.archive.org/web/20130624003344/http://www.belgiumstamps.org.uk/Railways.htm

Hello,

this is my firsts post in this forum. I'm Mikael from Sweden.

I have the 50 c of this stamp, but its much more light in colour than shown  here and also the "50" is in brown, not black. The black seem to be stamped afterwards, my brown one is clearly the original colour. Also I don't find any stamp on the internet that has the brown "50". Is it more uncommon?

Regards,

Mikael

Welcome to Stamp Bears, Mikael! I've been working on my Sweden collection this month. In the future, hopefully you might be able to answer some questions I had.

Please make an introduction thread on the Introductions Board and tell us more about yourself. Your username brings back memories of one Stamp Bear: Krash. It's unfortunate that Photobucket has blocked all his great photos, including a few of him with his band.

My COB catalog (Belgium) is at the office right now. It's an older edition, but I'll check to see if it has any info on the colors when I swing by the office later today.

Meanwhile, could you post a picture of your stamp? Thank you!

k

Wait . . .  so, you are not Jeff Healey from Canada?