X-cancel

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A X cancellation on the stamp of a Russian letter from 1858.
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A X cancellation on the stamp of a Russian letter from 1858.

In philately, an x-cancel is a pen (or occasionally pencil [1]) cancel in the shape of an "X" across the stamp. The term is also sometimes used in the context of paper documents.[2]

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