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APPENDIX
The following arc the earliest and latest dates of Guadur can
cellations at present recorded: Types 1-5A arc all exceedingly rare on
cover. Types 2 and 4 do not include the year and are consequently
difficult to ‘date’; only those for which the year has been positively
identified arc included. The dates in brackets cover the theoretical
span of use of the early cancellations.
Type Earliest Latest
SIND CIRCLE
1 (Duplex 15.10.73 (1869-1873)
2 (Duplex) 22.2.78 (1873-1879)
BOMBAY CIRCLE
3 with 4 2.12.81 21.10.82 (1879-1880)
5 (Duplex) 27. 5.85 (1880-1890)
5 A (Telegrams
1890-1900) 22. 9.10 5. 7.14
6 23.11.90 25.10.10
7 14. 2.04
8 9. 5.11
9 7. 5.15 18.11.24
9A 4.10.33 3. 1.53
10 7.12.27 14. 6.33
10A 16. 2.56 12.12.56
10B 12.12.55 8. 9.58
11 11. 8.25 28. 5.38
11A 2. 3.40 7. 4.49
12 29. 3.38 13. 5.38
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