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Survey of small bull's eye cancels |
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The Small round cancels (route with letter or Roman numeral) are also known as small bull's eye cancels. The small round postmark has been used both as a destruction postmark for all mail and as an arrival postmark in addition to the numeral postmark. A small round stamp was a type of postmark used by the Dutch PTT between 1877 and officially 1894, but in practice until the first years of the 20th century. It occurs in combination with dot postmark, stop postmark and other small round postmarks. The stamp consisted of two concentric circles. The inner circle contained the date and year. The name of the month was abbreviated to three letters and the year had its first two digits omitted. Between the two circles were the place name and an hour indication. The diameter of the stamp was 21 to 22 mm. Arabic numerals, Roman numerals and capital letters were used to indicate the trajectories, sometimes with the addition of a subletter or number or bis, etc. The small bull's eye used only one letter, a V or an N, to indicate whether a postal item was cancelled in the morning (V) or afternoon (N). Furthermore, the two-letter postmarks and the small round postmarks are very similar. The diameter of both stamps is 21 to 22 mm. Both stamps have the advantage that they fit completely on a stamp. Therefore, they can be collected on individual stamps, in contrast to the successor of the small round cancel, the large round cancel, which is usually collected on letters and cards. The small round cancel is more common than the two-letter cancel and therefore has more collectors. When small bull's eye cancel was used for the railways, it could only be for two purposes: for stations, e.g. Arnhem-Station for train and tram routes, e.g. Utrecht-Zwolle or Heerenveen-Drachten. Below you find a few examples of small bull's eye cancels (Dutch: kleinrondstempels). |
 Utrecht-Kampen 2 1876 |
 Rozendaal-Vlissingen IV 1878 |
 Amsterdam-Rotterdam 2 1880 |
 Amsterdam-Rotterdam A 1880 |
 Amsterdam-Winterswijk D 1880 |
 Amsterdam-Hoorn D 1884 |
 Arnhem-Oldenzaal E 1884 |
 Amsterdam-Antwerpen G 1885 |
 Amsterdam-Helder E 1888 |
 Amsterdam-Emmen D 1888 |
 Hardenberg-Dedemsvaart II 1889 |
 Amsterdam-Nijmegen A 1890 |
 Groningen-Zutphen B 1890 |
 Arnhem-Oldenzaal D 1892 |
 Maastricht-Aken II 1892 |
 Groningen-Zwolle G 1893 |
 Arnhem-Breda B 1893 |
 Haarlem-Zandvoort C 1898 |
 Utrecht-Zwolle F 1899 |
 Haarlem-Zandvoort C 1905 |
 Almelo-Apeldoorn V bis 1906 |
