| Iceland: Revenues: Customs Cancels - Sewing Machine |
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| Some ca. 1907-1918 Icelandic postage stamps are known bearing postal-type cancellations and additional "sewing machine needle" cancellations. Such stamps were used as revenue stamps, most likely on customs/import documents as precursors to Tollur-canceled stamps. They are very scarce because most were discarded as being "damaged". Most usages are of high-value stamps (as is true of Tollur cancels as well), thus sewing machine cancels on low-value stamps are extremely scarce. One can find examples of sewing machine cancels as either randomly positioned holes or in straight lines. Very often the holes are not visible from the front of the stamp. |
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