| Nick Martin of the Belgian Study Circle,
UK, emailed me on 20 Feb 2002 as follows
This is probably the mark of the postman
responsible for distributing mail. These consisted of letters in
a circle, hexagon or sometimes just the number on its own. Usually
in black; somertimes found in blue.
We have little information about these,
but they are not to be confused with early 19th century letters in a circle,
hexagon or parallelograme which were used by postmen emptying rural letter
boxes.
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