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                Previously the World's earliest DATED Railway Station cancel as a transit mark
                 on an entire from Bristol addressed to Uckfield, Sussex, via Gloucester Station
                 and London. The dated double arc cancel GLOUCESTER/STATION is dated

                            19th March 1840; one day later than the new earliest cancel

                                   Known period of use:  18.3.1842 to 23.2.1847
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