Details can be added as comments. They often have top and bottom marginal lines. They are best regarded as a variant that can be exhibited by several of our cancel types, so are to be coded by prefixing the code with 'R' . Use prefix R alone, not RM . See subcode 's' in Part 3 which covers the situation where the CDS is 'sideways'.
All type is assumed to be upper case non-italic sanserif unless otherwise stated.
The case is ignored in the code, but of course quoted correctly in the listing of the text of the postmark. This is described in the next part . Indeed in principle any cancel could have such accompanying material. See here for a full discussion , examples, a translation of the 1971 introduction to the ongoing series of articles on Ortswerbestempel cancels in Die Briefmarke , and an explanation of why the description Ortswerbestempel cannot be used as part of our system to classify cancels. Last updated 29 Aug 2000.