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pen cancel
In philately, a pen cancel is a cancellation of a postage or revenue stamp by the use of a pen, marker or crayon.
== Usage ==
In the early days of stamps, cancellation with a pen was common. Today stamps are almost always cancelled with an inked handstamp or a machine cancel as this is quicker to apply. Pen cancels are still sometimes seen today when a postal official needs to cancel stamps missed by the automatic cancelling machine.
There are no fixed terms for the different types of pen cancels, but a cancel in the form of two crossed lines has been referred to as an ''X cancel''.〔(X is for X-cancel ) alphabetilately.com〕 Pen cancels may also take the form of notations by the canceller, the city in which the item was posted or the initials of the local postmaster.
A pen cancel may indicate fiscal (revenue) use; however, in the early days of stamps a pen cancel was sometimes used because no handstamp was available, for instance in Nicaragua where pen cancels were used for seven years after their first stamps appeared in 1862.〔Sutton, R.J. & K.W. Anthony. ''The Stamp Collector's Encyclopaedia'', Stanley Paul, London, 1966, p.226.〕
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