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Stamp-can′cel-er.

A hand-stamp for defacing postage or internal-revenue stamps. It is said that the double hand-stamps for canceling stamps and post-marking letters by the same stroke of one hand saved the government in 1866 the salaries of two hundred and fifty-four clerks at from $700 to $900 each, or more than two hundred thousand dollars per annum.

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