Good Q, <DON>! I'll take another look at it, see if any of the cancellation books I've bought can serve a useful purpose. Else, I'll wait for others of the StampExchange brain trust to answer it.
Possibly 'Circular Room' - quite similar to the example in Cancellations and Killer of the Banknote Era by Cole.
Makes sense. Although, I trust circular in this case refers to a type of mailings (ads, flyers, "junk mail" etc) rather than a round room. LOL
Pulled this out of a stamp sales circuit yesterday. Does anyone know what the V on the left of Wien means? Is it an abbreviaton, a Roman numeral or what? Don
Hallo Don I cannot help much with the meaning of your cancel, however I think it is not Roman numeral or a abbreviation. I have a handfull of readable Vienna cancels of that type only. It is obvious that these are arabic numerals or some like 7/1 whatever it means. Here an older cancel version,where the numbers in a inverted order: I can guess only,that the numbers will be related to the Vienna Districts (Bezirke) and/or to different post-offices,or may be even to the cancel itself. Werner
Werner: Thanks for the examples you posted. I agree, it looks like the combination of an arabic numberal and/or an alpha symbol separated by a slash, I.e. 20/1 or A/1. I'm sure they had meaning to someone at the time. Don
I've been searching my Wiena cancellations and it seems that letters prior the 'WIENA' and numbers after, maybe reffers to regional postoffices
Not a bulls-eye cancellation but nevertheless,a nice circular cancellation from Brazzaville,AEF ,from 1954.The stamp was part of a series of 12 stamps from 12 French Colonies commemorating the 10th anniversary of French liberation.
