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The letters ma, mb, mc etc. serve to identify the cancel and ultimately the user/counter or machine in use.
zz is used to denote a postal agency, and here it is behoven for a reminder that ESSEN zz and PRESSECK zz have been used to fraudulently cancel modern day stamps, in particular the Heuss issues have been so treated, especially horizontal pairs, as have a number of definitives and other commemmorative stamps from Berlin. They can commonly be found on Epay< >com and < > co.uk and delcampo (misspelling deliberate.
The two numbers below the date are the time given as a shortened form of the 24 hour clock.
Here occasionally some strange times can be found, i.e. 26 and so on
regards
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