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Can not read Polish but this is what i found

1860 Warszawa Local Post 3k blue, "POCZTA MIEJSKA WARSZAWSKA" stamp impression at upper-left, plain wove paper envelope (size 145 x 80mm)

So it is a cut-out from an enveloppe and cancelled with a "X"

It should have looked something like this :

This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
26 Sep 2021
02:33:11pm

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I have a question about the cutouts. I collect US but have decided not to collect cut squares, for some reason they don't appeal to me. I really don't know why! Does the same thing apply to ones like these, they are worth less if not cut to a "square" shape. Someone said this rule applies to US. It seems a bit odd to me, as long as the whole design is there it should be fine. At least in my humble opinion!

Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
27 Sep 2021
08:17:50am

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" ... some reason they don't appeal to me. I really don't know why! ..."

Me neither. I'll sometimes add them here and there if they look decent,
but generally I do not consider envelopes to be stamps.

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in the US, cut squares have pretty much fallen out of fashion. and cut squares are only for envelopes, not for postal cards, at least in the US.

if you haven't started collecting them yet, aim for the entire envelopes, not cut squares.

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pigdoc
01 Oct 2021
12:35:00pm

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Say, Kees, I like how you posted two identical images next to each other like that!

I've always been fond of the "Magic Eye" images. These are published the same way, two virtually identical images next to each other. You can train your eyeballs to have your left eye focus on the left image and your right eye on the right image. When you master that trick, the two images converge, and can appear 3 dimensional, or reveal hidden details. Fun! And, if you move your head while you have your eyeballs focused independently like that, you experience the illusion of looking around the edges or corners, just like you're walking around a 3D object.

I am always alert for hotel carpet with very graphic repeating patterns that I can also do this with. Trippy when you're bored sitting in a long seminar, or walking down a long corridor to your room...

Back to a stamping context. For some reason, when I look through my hand magnifying glass, at a cancelled stamp, I get the impression that cancellation is hovering above the paper surface. Sometimes useful for distinguishing ink smudges from faults. Has anyone else experienced this visual illusion?

- (Crazy) Paul