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Mike Chisholm's avatar

Not that it really matters, but your guess that the cancelled stamp "presumably refers to the cancellation of this system of date stamping" didn't ring true to me -- in many libraries such a stamp would either represent the return of the loan, or that the book itself had been withdrawn from stock -- so I took advantage of my On Her Majesty's Bibliographic Service access-all-areas warrant card, and asked the Faculty Library what it had been used for.

As you might expect, no-one currently employed could quite remember, but investigation revealed that a slightly oversized "cancelled" stamp had indeed been used to cancel every returned loan, until someone had the innovative idea of simply striking out the date stamp with a pen...

Mike

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Mark Dykeman's avatar

Gosh, a Yorkshire train ticket brings back a few memories, including the absolute worst jam donut I ever ate.

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