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Post by vasia on Aug 10, 2017 5:48:10 GMT
August 10th, 1930
Cover from VASKELOVO-LENINGRAD (unnumbered raiway Travelig Post Office) oval cds to Prague, through Leningrad, 11/8/1930. Franked at 14k with “Decembrist” commemorative. The rate had gone up to 15k in July, so the letter is assessed postage-due with “T” in circle, which is paid in Prague with Czech postage-due stamp of 1Korun on 18/8/1930. The letter appears to have been forwarded (how?) to Gablonz-on-Neisse (Jablonec nad Nisou, 80km north from Prague), receiving a backstamp on 31/8/1930.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 10, 2017 12:15:00 GMT
The Northern Lights shine (well, use your imagination) on this stamp from Greenland, cancelled on August 10, 1978 in Upernavik. That's much later than its date of issue which was 1963. Upernavik's Wikipedia article states that it is Greenland's northern-most town with a population of at least 1000 people. That's still true, but it might not be next year - the town, like many in Greenland, has a decreasing population and the 2017 statistics say the population now stands at 1055 inhabitants, down from 1181 in 2013. And it's back to Australia again with a Queen Victoria stamp from the state of Queensland, showing an August 10, 1911 postmark applied in Brisbane. The Queen had passed away 10 years earlier at the age of 81, but the stamps of the day still showed an adaptation of a design by William Wyon based on her likeness as a 15-year-old princess. Ryan
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Post by Mark Jochim on Aug 10, 2017 15:56:43 GMT
August 10, 1894: Kingstown (the capital city) on St. Vincent Sc#40, released in 1883.
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Post by vasia on Aug 11, 2017 5:18:28 GMT
August 11th, 1920
Switzerland 25c (Scott 133), cancelled in Basel??
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Post by Anping on Aug 11, 2017 11:10:31 GMT
Using artistic license, I can see how a simple mosque such as the one pictured here might evolve into what is shown on the stamp. I've just looked at this again and the postcard's description is wrong. This is not a mosque, it's a tomb (can't recall whose it is at the moment; possibly Sheikh Said). The location is Steamer Point just by the Prince of Wales landing pier. All the activity may be connected either with the arrival of a dignitary; possibly royalty. OR, more likely, this is a festival of remembrance for the entombed. I've just unearthed a small group of photographs that were printed by J.M. Coutinho, who produced a lot of these postcards. It appears that the following photo was taken from the same vantage point as the postcard, although somewhat later. Notice the change from horse drawn carriages to motor vehicles. Strangely, this photograph and all the others have had a stamp attached and cancelled all with the same date. The stamps used are all different values and were those available before Aden issued their own in 1937 (the Dhow issue).
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Post by Ryan on Aug 12, 2017 0:11:07 GMT
Another day, another image of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. Today's stamp wears an August 11 machine cancel applied in Holsteinsborg, now known as Sisimiut, Greenland's second largest town which is located on the west coast at the northern limit of the year-round ice-free zone. Sisimiut was in the news just a couple of days ago. There are wildfires in the region, not unheard of but not nearly as common as they have been this year. There is a satellite which monitors wildfires and there have been more this summer than over the past 15 years combined. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 12, 2017 5:14:39 GMT
August 12th, 1963
Belgium 40c (Scott 413) cancelled in Antwerp.
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Post by alanl on Aug 12, 2017 22:19:31 GMT
August the 12th in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 12, 2017 23:13:00 GMT
I have nothing from Greenland for today but here are two stamps to show from the start of my trip through my small glassines. First, a postally used (non-philatelic usage) stamp from Anguilla. Reallly! I don't know how common such things are but I certainly couldn't find many examples of them online and the only copies I have in my own collection are all the same issue showing Sandy Ground with the same "Anguilla / Travelling Branch" postmark. In this case, the date on the postmark is August 12, 1975. And another old small Australian stamp from around the era of federation. In this case, post-federation so Victoria was a state by then, a Queen Victoria 3/4 profile on paper with a crown & "A" (for Australia) watermark. August 12, 1912, far too many towns ending in "ang" to know where it's from. Balliang Bangerang Boomerang Dederang Jeeralang Mandurang Merriang Pallarang Pangorang Warrenmang Woomelang Woosang Youarang - I can probably rule out Nyeriminalang, though. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 13, 2017 4:30:16 GMT
August 13th, 1919
South Russia 15 kopecks Denikin civil war issue (Scott 63), cancelled in Vladikavkaz.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 13, 2017 7:01:21 GMT
South Russia 15 kopecks Denikin civil war issue (Scott 63), cancelled in Vladikavkaz.
I was going to question whether this was a stamp or a cutout from postal stationery (not just because of the big margins but also because of the paper colour), but I had a look online and found many examples of imperf stamps from South Russia with really big margins like this one. Not like the old Penny Black where the margins are so small it's tricky to find stamps that haven't been cut into. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 13, 2017 21:33:13 GMT
We're back in Greenland again today and so is Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, bundled up in her Greenlandic national costume with the brilliant beaded collar. Single-colour engravings don't do much to show the vibrancy of the beadwork, so below I've attached a photo of Margrethe wearing the costume, which is apparently the only women's national costume in the world to feature trousers rather than a skirt or dress. I don't blame them, it's too cold in Greenland for bare legs! The August 13 bilingual handstamp was applied in Godthåb / Nûk, now known as Nuuk. And more royalty with a stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the entry of Ingrid the Queen Mother into the Danish royal family as Crown Princess upon her marriage to the future King Frederick IX. She was a daughter to King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden who ruled as monarch there from 1950 to 1973. The August 13, 1985 cancellation was applied in Narsaq. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 14, 2017 4:48:34 GMT
August 14th, 1906
70 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms (Scott 67), cancelled at the temporary post office (summer months) on the grounds of the Nizhny Novgorod Trade Fair.
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Post by tregeor on Aug 14, 2017 15:03:24 GMT
One from the UK. A nice clear postmark, when looking through my collection for things to add to this board I've realised how quite rare that is!
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Post by Mark Jochim on Aug 14, 2017 15:10:21 GMT
Another slightly late entry, this one from the predecessor of my adopted country (I hate when they are referred to as Thai stamps rather than from Siam and I often wish that the Scott catalogue separated the entries as they do with other name-change nations; the name Thailand wasn't used until after the 1932 coup):
August 13, 19xx: Bangkok double-ring cancellation on Siam Sc#84 released in 1899.
That's the portrait of the beloved King Chulalongkorn (known in the West as Rama V), the Kingdom's most revered monarch although the recently-departed King Bhumiphol Adulyadej (Rama IX) is considered by most as being just as revered. The Royal family here are viewed by most citizens to be deities rather than mere royalty.
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Post by Mark Jochim on Aug 14, 2017 15:14:41 GMT
Sorry, I can't read the town name on this one...August 14, xxxx: postmark on Sc#15 of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, released in 1860.
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Post by Mark Jochim on Aug 15, 2017 3:57:52 GMT
August 15, 1862: postmark on Austrian-Hungarian Empire Sc#14, released in 1860.I think it says "RECOMMENDIRT" across the top of the cancellation and I can't make out the bottom word on either. The red ink on red stamp doesn't help but my eyesight really isn't as good as it used to be.
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Post by vasia on Aug 15, 2017 4:33:38 GMT
August 15th, 1902
20 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms (Scott 43), cancelled in Breziny, Petrokovskaya province - present-day Brzeziny in Lodz, Poland.
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Post by tomiseksj on Aug 15, 2017 15:34:17 GMT
August 15Canada's 17 cent, bright ultramarine air post special delivery stamp (Scott CE2; 1943) postmarked this date in 1946.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 15, 2017 20:29:56 GMT
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is back again (again, again, again) - a bit of an odd quirk, there has been a small flood of Margrethe stamps to show and now I'll go 3 weeks before I have another with a matching date cancel. This time we can look at a bilingual machine cancel (with a taste of waves, those usually miss hitting the stamp) applied on August 15, 1980 in Søndre Strømfjord / Kangerdlugssuak', now known as Kangerlussuaq. Next is an overprinted British Queen Elizabeth II definitive as used in Bahrain, dated August 15, 1954. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 16, 2017 4:34:12 GMT
August 16th, 1904
3 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms (Scott 57), with a St/ Petersburg / Eksp. Priema Poselok postmark (= receiving parcel department).
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Post by Ryan on Aug 16, 2017 20:42:35 GMT
Today's Greenlandic stamp is a 1974 issue showing a longboat off the coast of Greenland. But the stamp itself was cancelled in Nuuk on August 16 in the year 2000 - somebody had that stamp lying around in a drawer for quite a long time before finally using it. I have two stamps I can show from my small glassines. King Edward VII is here on a stamp from the Cape of Good Hope, cancelled in Port Elizabeth on August 16, 1907. And finally, President Paul von Hindenburg on a German stamp overprinted for use in Lorraine during World War II during that region's annexation from France by Germany. The August 16, 1941 postmark doesn't have much of the town name showing, but I bet it's from Metz. I have plenty of examples to show throughout the course of the year which show clean examples of the Metz postmark so you can make your own comparison, studious reader .... Ryan
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Post by alanl on Aug 16, 2017 22:20:30 GMT
Acireale, Sicily on August the 16th.
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Post by vasia on Aug 17, 2017 4:38:22 GMT
August 17th, 1994
France 2.80 frs (Scott 2430), depicting the St Victoire mountain by Paul Cezanne, cancelled in Paris.
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Post by alanl on Aug 17, 2017 22:22:59 GMT
August the 17th in Brunoy, France. Brunoy is a suburb of Paris.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 17, 2017 23:14:15 GMT
August 17 is the date seen on this Greenlandic stamp issued in 1963 to commemorate Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Bohr was most famous for his model of the atom, an improvement on the model given by Ernest Rutherford (who was the subject of one of my favourite Canadian stamp designs, but I have no copy of that stamp showing that date so that is neither here nor there - ha ha). In this model, electrons spin sort of like planets around the atom's nucleus (sort of like a sun). Unlike planets, however, electrons can jump up from one orbit to another if they are given a suitable amount of energy, and if the energy source is removed, they will fall back down to their "proper" orbit - stamp collectors know about fluorescence and phosphorescence which are examples of this drop in electron orbit levels coinciding with the emission of a photon, a light particle. The equation shown describes the energy change associated with the drop from one orbit level to the next. Yay science! This stamp was part of a set of two denominations which was joint issued with Denmark. The postmark was applied in Søndre Strømfjord, now known as Kangerlussuaq. Well, OK - I still like the Canada Rutherford stamp so here it is, nabbed from the Canadian Postal Archives website. Rutherford was a New Zealander who did much of his research on the atom while on the faculty at McGill University in Montreal from 1898 to 1907. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1908. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 18, 2017 4:39:34 GMT
August 18th, 1933
Greece 3 drs (Scott 228) cancelled in unknown location.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 18, 2017 4:44:32 GMT
18th August (1906) Indo-China, Scott #28, 10-centime carmine French colonial definitive, postmarked on this date in 1906 in Vientiane (written Vien-Tiane in the postmark), which was the capital city of Laos in Indo-China. Image of a famous temple in Vientiane.
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Post by Mark Jochim on Aug 18, 2017 12:42:31 GMT
August 18, 1908: Nederlandsch-Indie (Netherlands East Indies or Dutch East Indies) Sc#55 (released in 1904) stamp with Soerabaja (Surabaya) postmark.Surabaya is the capital of the Jawa Timur (East Java) province of Indonesia. It was one of the earliest port cities in Southeast Asia. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Surabaya was the largest city in the Dutch East Indies and the center of trading in colony, larger than Batavia (present-day Jakarta). It was later a competitor of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Today, the city remains one of the most important financial hubs of the Indonesian archipelago, arguably second only to Jakarta. The port of Tanjung Perak is Indonesia's second busiest seaport. Located on northeastern Java on the Madura Strait, it is the second largest-city in Indonesia. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population over 2.8 million, approximately 6 million in the metropolitan area, and an 'extended metropolitan area' (Gerbangkertosusila) with more than 9 million inhabitants.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 18, 2017 20:01:47 GMT
This 1967 "stamp" is not listed in Scott catalogues but it can be found in Michel and in specialized regional catalogues. Mahra State was the easternmost part of what is now the country of Yemen (since 1990), bordering Oman, and is now known as the Al Mahrah Governorate. Before that, it was part of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, commonly known as South Yemen (1970-1990). Before that, it was part of the People's Republic of Southern Yemen (1967-1970). Before that, it was part of the Protectorate of South Arabia (1963-1967, which wasn't the same thing as the Federation of South Arabia, a stamp issuing entity). Before that, it was part of the Aden Protectorate (1874-1963, which wasn't the same thing as the Colony of Aden where all those nice stamps come from), and historically it was known as the Mahra Sultanate. Phew, what a tangle .... Once in a very long while you'll find one of these philatelic cancels that is offset just enough to be able to read a calendar date. Here's August 18, cancelled in Ghaidha, now known as Al Ghaydah. John F. Kennedy shakes hands in a mildly lurid green with gold lettering that barely shows up on a scan. An overview of the stamps of Yemen and its various roots and offshoots can be found at Andrew Gondocz's Oh My Gosh Publishing site. Ryan
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