The FIP rules specified:
Generic cancellations can be used because of • the specific meaning of a place name, or • the reason a place exists.
I saw an exhibit about Food and Drink of Sugar. There is a page about sandwich, a kind of food, for which a stampless letter sent from Sandwich, England is showed. The page uses place name 'SANDWICH' in postmark on a stampless letter to describe the food was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Actually, the thematic point is right. The food's name did come from 4th Earl of Sandwich, and the Earl's name did come from the town, Sandwich. But the problem is whether the place name in postmark can offer such information or not.
The meaning of the place name is sandy harbour, and the reason the place exists is not related to Earl of Sandwich (maybe he had not been to this small town.)
As my opinion, the item in that exhibit belongs to incorrect use, because the place name in postmark can not offer thematic information for the food according to FIP rules. Even though both the place and the food share the same name.
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