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Post by vasia on Aug 19, 2017 10:31:22 GMT
August 19th, 1939
Greece 3 drs (Scott 392) + 50 lepta semi-postal (Scott RA62), cancelled in the town of Meligalas in the Peloponnese.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 19, 2017 19:48:16 GMT
Here's an August 19 cancellation on a Greenlandic stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Kleinschmidt, a linguist responsible for the orthographic methodology used to write Greenlandic as was used in the language's early written history. He was of mixed Danish and German heritage but was in fact born in Greenland to missionary parents. The stamp is another which has been cancelled well outside its normal period of usage - the stamp was issued in 1964 but the bilingual Godthåb / Nûk (now Nuuk) handstamp postmark wasn't in use until the early 1970s (and continued in use until the mid-1980s). Now we'll go back to early Australia statehood with a Tasmanian stamp issued in 1902 just after federation (but not yet using the paper watermarked with an "A", it has a crown with a "V" for Victoria). The August 19, 1904 cancellation was applied in Launceston and is seen on a stamp featuring Mount Wellington. This stamp design was produced in three different main printing methods. This is a typographed copy - I have a lithographed copy to show in 2 days but we'll have to wait until January before I can show an engraved stamp with a matching date. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 20, 2017 9:59:18 GMT
August 20th, 1940
Switzerland 20c airmail stamp (Scott C4), cancelled in Zurich.
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Post by Mark Jochim on Aug 20, 2017 12:30:27 GMT
August 19, 1923: unknown town postmark on Germany Sc#203 released in 1923; still"only" 500 marks in August of that year...
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Post by Mark Jochim on Aug 20, 2017 12:33:01 GMT
August 20, 1971: Accra postmarks on a trio of Ghana Sc#291, released in 1967
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Post by vasia on Aug 21, 2017 13:26:16 GMT
August 21st, 1929
Non-denominated PSE from Pogoreloye Gorodishche to Rzhev, in the same Tver region, 22/8. Franked correctly at the 20k rate with two pairs of the 5k “large head”. The non-standard registration label (i.e with no "R" designation) is perfed, with a condensed town name (Погор.-Город.) and altered registration number. Pogoreloye Gorodishche is a village-rural settlement in the Zubtsov district of Tver, presumably the site of the ancient Russian city of Derzhislavl.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 21, 2017 18:18:36 GMT
21st August (1916) U.S., Scott #406, 2-cent carmine, perf 12, type I, probably from a booklet pane, cancelled on this date in 1916, in Columbus, Ohio. The sender was stationed at Camp Willis (U.S. Army), during World War I. You will notice that the stamp and postmark are on the side of the envelope with the sealing flap. That is because there is a black-and-white photo on the other side of the envelope, shown below the stamp and postmark. A little on-line research indicates that Camp Willis operated from 1911-1920 in the Columbus, Ohio area: digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/memory/id/6092
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Post by Ryan on Aug 22, 2017 5:42:10 GMT
If you're not over on the western side of North America like I am then I'm probably too late, but it's still before midnight here so I'll add these examples. Particularly so since I mentioned a couple of days ago that I had something pertinent. 2 days ago I posted a Tasmanian stamp showing Mount Wellington printed by typography. Here's the lithographed version of the same design, coincidentally also postmarked in Launceston like my last example, this time showing a date of August 21, 1909. The shading lines are much finer on this copy than on the typographed version as shown a couple of days ago - look at the river banks and compare how faint the shading lines are there. The shading on the mountain peak is also drastically different on the two different printing methods, although in both of my examples the postmark covers that to the point where you can't notice it as much. Also, typographed stamps frequently have square frame lines which appear to be squashed out of proportion - have a look at the upper left corner of the Aug. 19th copy, that's a good example of what I mean (the square corner is no longer square!). And two copies from my Greenland collection can be shown today. Ingrid the Queen Mother makes a quick return to our calendar, dated August 21, 1985 with a bilingual Jakobshavn / Ilulissat handstamp. Ilulissat is important to Greenland's sled dog industry and the finest dogs come from the area - the SIRIUS sled patrol (commemorated on another Greenland stamp) is outfitted with Ilulissat dogs, among others. They're double-extra-tough dogs, though, don't walk up to them and skritch their ears because they might eat your arm. Here's an August 21, 1989 Nuuk cancellation on a stamp featuring the gyrfalcon, the largest of all falcons. Female falcons are larger than the males - their wingspan can reach 160 cm (over 5 feet). Double-extra-tough bird! Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 22, 2017 15:18:49 GMT
August 22nd, 1921
Cover from Kiev to New York, 12/10/1921, through Moscow with 3-triangle oval expedition mark of 30/8. Addressed to the Jewish-American paper “The Forward”. Registered with standard inland “З” label of Kiev. Franked at 20R with a 20k Arms, revalued 100X to rubles. An additional 1.230R is levied in cash with a violet “oplachen” (=paid) handstamp on backflap.
At this point in the inflationary period, postage rates were drastically raised: the domestic registered letter rate had gone up to 1.250R on 15/8, while the higher international charge (from 20R to 2.000R) did not come into effect until 25/8. In the interim period (August 15th to August 25th), a circular of the Kiev provincial postal/telegraphic section prescribed that: "…A common order is established for foreign registered mail the payment for which must be collected by postage stamps in the amount of the previous rate equal to twenty rubles; as to the part of amount which is missing to the new rates, i.e. 1230 rubles up to 15 grams…, it should be collected in cash with marking this on the letter covers and senders' journals. The payment for ordinary letters abroad remains temporarily as before, i.e. 10 rubles for each"». So this is essentially a local provisional rate.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 22, 2017 22:17:30 GMT
It's back to Alsace again for a stamp released while the region was under annexation by the Germans during World War II - you can find this in a Scott catalogue listed under France as a back-of-the-book listing, Issued under German Occupation. All Alsace and Lorraine WWII issues were overprints of the same German definitive series of Hindenburg portraits - higher values are bicoloured but all I have to show are these boring little monochrome things. Fine by me, I'm happy with anything I can put into my small glassines because that means I don't have much in my collection. The August 22, 1941 cancellation comes from Strassburg, known in the English-speaking world by its French name of Strasbourg. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 23, 2017 14:48:28 GMT
August 23rd, 1923
2 rubles stamp from first Soviet Union issue (Scott 243), commemorating the Moscow Agricultural and small-industrial Exhibition. Cancelled in Kazan. Strongly shifted (to the left) green background (mentioned in specialized Russian catalogues).
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Post by Ryan on Aug 23, 2017 22:25:22 GMT
August 23 brings me to a couple more stamps from the old Australian states. In these cases, both stamps were issued prior to the 1901 federation, so they were properly considered colonies then. First, a Victoria stamp cancelled in Williamstown. This issue kind of annoys me, as with many old issues there are numerous shades, and the various catalogues have differing ideas of which colours to call them and which ones to include in their listings. Grrrr - I enjoy collecting by watermark and perforation differences, I can figure those out (usually) but shades are frequently annoying. I need one of those fancy spectroscopic gizmos to measure the elements which make up the ink, then I'll know which shade I have .... Up next, A New South Wales stamp showing an August 23 cancellation from Albury. No Queen Victoria portrait this time, instead we have the colony's coat of arms as they were at the time - the current state coat of arms are much more elaborate. The Crown & NSW watermark dates the stamp to the colonial era, although there is no legible year date to confirm that. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 24, 2017 12:46:12 GMT
August 24th, 1951
Switzerland 15c (Scott 331. 'rotary snow plow"), cancelled in Amriswil.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 24, 2017 23:05:04 GMT
I can't show much from Brunei in this thread. Here's the first of only two examples I can give. The August 24, 1996 cancellation reads G.P.O. B.S.B. - General Post Office, Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital city of Brunei and the current name for what was formerly known as Brunei Town. The stamp shows Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah who has ruled since 1967. Being a Sultan is apparently pretty good business, he has a net worth of approximately $20 billion and earns $100 per second from oil revenues. I'm in the wrong business, obviously. Ryan
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Post by Mick on Aug 25, 2017 15:32:33 GMT
Two for today. In 1958 we were reminded of the Shakespeare Festival, on this card sent from Astoria. The cancel doesn't mention it, but the festival takes place every year in Ashland, in southern Oregon. Then in 2012, I got a postcard from Wegorzewo, Poland.
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Post by vasia on Aug 26, 2017 10:00:29 GMT
August 26th, 1924
Notification-of-Receipt postal card (for closed letter with declared value, see back) originally mailed from Moscow to Dedovichi, Pskov (5/9). Returned registered from there (6/9) to Leningrad (7/9). Nice “З” registration handstamp of Dedovichi in red. Franked at the proper NOR rate of 12k. The card was forwarded to Lloyds Bank in London and, although the printed “Recommandee” had been erased, a “dotted R in circle” was stamped on top of the Dedovichi handstamp.
Since no additional postage had been added for international mail, a “T” in circle was added on top of the stamps. It is unclear if postage-due was collected after arrival (12/9). This is an unusual BILINGUAL (French-Russian) notification card – it does not appear to be related to the receipt of a bank deposit (as usual with these cards), but to the receipt of a letter with declared value. Apparently, a different procedure had to be followed with the card having to travel back to the international sender (i.e, a more typical avis-de-reception procedure). The 12k would cover the postcard rate abroad OR the domestic NOR rate (one-way registered letter rate), BUT NOT BOTH TOGETHER!
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Post by Ryan on Aug 26, 2017 13:00:58 GMT
Here's an August 26 cancellation and I almost have to cheat a bit to figure out the town name. There are two tiny towns in southern Greenland (the larger one has a 2017 population of 35, the smaller one only 24) which could fit the partial inscription seen here, Qagssimiut or Qagssiarssuk. Thanks to the online articles from the Greenland study group of the FG Nordische Staaten, the spacing and position of the letters can be inspected closely to determine that the postmark is in fact from Qagssimiut (currently the smaller of the two towns), now spelled Qassimiut. The stamp is a semi-postal issue which commemorates the centenary of the birth of Knud Rasmussen, an anthropologist and explorer who was important in furthering research on the northern peoples. He died relatively young, apparently from the effects of food poisoning after eating kiviak, a Greenlandic Inuit winter food which is unlikely to appeal to the western tongue. Take a bunch of dead birds (it has to be the right kind of bird or the process goes bad), wrap them up tightly in a seal skin, hide the package in the ground for seven months and let the birds ferment. Then bite off the heads and eat the innards which have turned sort of cheesy. Yeesh, I haven't had my breakfast yet this morning .... I also have a stamp from Tasmania to show. The August 26, 1903 postmark from Launceston is on a lithographed version of a stamp showing a view of Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. As with the 1d red Mount Wellington stamp we've recently seen from this series, this issue can be found lithographed, typographed or engraved. Over the course of the year I'll be able to show all three, but whereas I have mostly typographed copies of the 1d stamp, it's the lithographed version of this stamp which makes up the majority of my 2d copies. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 27, 2017 14:21:18 GMT
It's August 27 and I have 5 Greenlandic stamps to choose from, so there will be something to show in upcoming years. For the 2 stamps to be shown this year, I can give examples of closed towns. First, a King Frederick IX definitive with a postmark from Færingehavn, later known as Kangerluarsoruseq (big Scrabble score on that one!). The town was founded as a fishing base for a Faroese company - a bit of an odd history, as the Faroese lived mostly from their sheep rather than their fishing grounds which were dominated by foreign firms. As those foreigners improved their fleets, the older ships were sold to the Faroese who then had to go as far afield as Greenland to be the top dogs. Their own fishing grounds, as well as those of Iceland, were already dominated by better outfitted concerns. The Faroese soon outgrew the ability to process their catch onboard and they were a bit of a problem in the sense that they brought foreign illnesses and cultural changes that the locals weren't able to cope with, so eventually a total of four fishing bases were built for them at previously uninhabited areas (access to these bases was eventually given to other nations as well). The base at Færingehavn was founded in 1927 and a post office was opened in 1939, originally with postmarks reading "Færingerhavnen". The fishing base ran until 1989 when it was closed. The town around the base struggled along until 2009 when it was abandoned. But collectors can still order cards cancelled with a Kangerluarsoruseq postmark from the Post Greenland website - I have seen examples from 2014, even though the town had been abandoned 5 years prior. Here's another abandoned town - this is an August 27, 1987 postmark from Marmorilik, now listed in Wikipedia as Maamorilik although most online references name it as Maarmorilik (no postmarks exist with the "Maamorilik" spelling, but I have seen meters with a spelling of "Maarmorilik"). Various metals were mined but the primary ones were zinc and lead. A post office opened in 1938, was closed in 1945, opened again in 1973 and closed again in 1990. There has been talk for nearly 10 years of reopening the mine - the latest news I have found shows that preliminary exploration was completed in 2015 and production is expected to resume in 2018. Perhaps we will see Round 3 for the Marmorilik post office! The stamp shows a design based on Peter Rosing's landscape painting of Ammassalik Fjord along the eastern coast of Greenland. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 28, 2017 10:23:22 GMT
For August 28 I can show a stamp issued for the Australian Antarctic Territory. Although there are actually some post offices in the Australian Antarctic Territory, the stamps are valid for use anywhere in Australia. The 1992 postmark was applied in Brisbane according to the post code 4000 and the stamp shows a site in the region of Mac.Robertson Land (usng the Australian spelling) on a summer evening. Australia's first Antarctic station, Mawson Station, is located in Mac.Robertson Land. I live in a place that can get pretty cold too, but my summer evenings are much more pleasant than what I see here. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 28, 2017 12:00:27 GMT
August 28th, 1963
Belgium 2,50 frs (King Baudouin, Scott 454), cancelled in Brussels.
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Post by alanl on Aug 28, 2017 22:25:21 GMT
Veendam, Netherlands on August the 28th.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 29, 2017 12:14:38 GMT
It's August 29 and I have a first day cancel to show on a Greenlandic stamp. The August 29 portion of the cancel is visible - my DAKA Greenland catalogue fills in the remaining details. The year was 1978 and the bilingual cancellation shows Godthåb / Nûk, now known as Nuuk, as the issuing town. No big surprise that the first day cancellation was from Nuuk since the stamp celebrates the 250th anniversary of Nuuk's founding. Godt-Haab, as it was known then, got off to a rough start, as this quote from the Wikipedia article tells: I also have a stamp from my small glassines to show, although British Guiana might not be stored in a small glassine for too much longer. I have some BG stamps in my "do these right away" soaking pile and once I work my way through them, British Guiana (now known as Guyana) will probably end up getting moved into the larger glassine size. Be that as it may, here's an August 29, 1958 airmail postmark on a stamp showing a combine working a rice field. Yum, I love rice - I haven't bought a potato at the grocery store in my entire adult life but I buy my rice in a 9 Kg bag and it doesn't take me long to polish it off. Just bought another bag 2 weeks ago, as a matter of fact. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Aug 29, 2017 13:44:00 GMT
August 29th, 1918
Parcel card from the village of Nikolaevskiy Gorodok, Saratov to Uglovka, Novgorod. The parcel card has been hand-converted to a declared-value one for a value of 1000R. The weight is calculated at 34 funts and the total charge levied at 25R. The card is franked with 25x1R perf. The breakdown is as follows: 0.70 rubles / funt (23.80r), i.e the charge for a parcel traveling between 1000 and 2000 versts (the distance from Saratov to Uglovka is calculated nowadays at 1300 km) + 1r insurance charge (1%) + 0.20 handling. A provisional blue insured label with typewritten village name.
Nikolaevskiy Gorodok was renamed Octyabrsky Gorodok in 1920. The original village had been created in 1829 as the location of an orphanage for bringing up the illegitimate children of noblemen. On state lands it was planned to create model colonies with advanced technologies for cultivating the land, growing livestock, etc. In 1864 the Mariinsky Agricultural College was created there to train specialists. During the 1905 revolution, an important uprising occured in the village.
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Post by alanl on Aug 29, 2017 22:24:38 GMT
August the 29th in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
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Post by vasia on Aug 30, 2017 13:34:08 GMT
August 30th, 1922
Cover from Petrograd to New York, 20/9/1922. Registered with standard “R” label of Petrograd. Franked correctly with 5x14k + 4x5k Imperial Arms, revalued 100X to rubles at this point in the inflationary period (i.e 90 rubles - correct franking). 3-triangle cds of Petrograd. Addressed to the “Hansen Caviar Company”, which had a headquarters in Astrakhan in 1907 and probably until 1917.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 30, 2017 21:41:06 GMT
My Greenland postmark for August 30 isn't overly exciting - just a month and a day, nothing else to be seen. Oh well. Two kayakers struggle against the waves. Well, I'd be struggling, they probably don't mind much. And it's back to British Guiana again today. The August 30, 1949 postmark was applied in Suddie, a small town with around 900 inhabitants. The Swedish Wikipedia article has more info than the English version (GREAT APPLAUSE) which hasn't been worked on enough to resemble the normal Wikipedia article. The town's location near the equator means there isn't much variance in year-round temperature, with the warmest month being only 5°C warmer than the coolest month. Lots of difference in rainfall, though - the wettest month sees more than 5 times as much rain as the driest. The stamp design shows a gold mining scene. Alluvial gold deposits form in locations where water flow has carried the precious metal along with the earth. Gold is much heavier than sand or dirt and settles out from the water in specific areas. The land in such areas is typically too loose to mine by tunneling so the mining is generally carried out above ground, although there are some cases in the far north where permafrost keeps the ground frozen, allowing tunnel mining to be used. Ryan
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Post by alanl on Aug 30, 2017 22:23:37 GMT
Brussels, Belgium on the 30th of August.
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Post by vasia on Aug 31, 2017 13:26:51 GMT
August 31st, 1917
Cover from Petrograd / Viteb.(skaya) Vokz. (railway station oval datestamp) to Stockholm, Sweden (5/10/1917, addressed to the Russian Aid Committee). Registered with a red “З” numerator cachet of the station office (it is possible that an accompanying “R” label at upper left has fallen-off). Franked at 70 kopecks with 2x35k Arms – the registered letter rate was 20k, so this is presumably a 6x weight letter! Censored: hand cachet P18 and resealing label R2 (two copies).
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