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Received from HM Ships parcel post handstamp, presumably WW2 period - anyone seen this before?

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:55 pm
by mozzerb
The piece in the attached scan turned up in a pound box today -- it's from what appears to be an OHMS registered parcel, with a 3d stamp for the registration fee cancelled with a boxed parcel post mark "Received from HM Ships".

I've not seen this mark before, and it definitely looks unusual. For what it's worth, it's not listed in my Collect British Postmarks, although James Mackay's Postmarks of England and Wales has an illustration of something similar. Anyone know any more about this one?

Re: Received from HM Ships parcel post handstamp, presumably WW2 period - anyone seen this before?

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 1:10 pm
by earsathome
Hi Mozzerb,
I am not sure if you have the 9th edition of S.G. Collect British Postmarks but the scan shows the illustration on page 287. I cannot track down one with Parcel post on it and the notation after the illustration reads
"Received from H.M. Ships, machine die" but that looks like a rubber stamp doesn't it.
Cheers
Ron

Re: Received from HM Ships parcel post handstamp, presumably WW2 period - anyone seen this before?

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 3:03 pm
by mozzerb
Hi Ron,

I only have the 8th edition, but it also has that picture on page 247. I think it looks cruder than it is in real life (and so more like a rubber parcel post strike) because it was traced rather than scanned originally?