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Post by vasia on Sept 11, 2017 14:28:55 GMT
September 11th, 1922
Czechoslovakia 300h (Scott 78) cancelled in a location in Silesia (haven't been able to determine it).
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 11, 2017 14:57:54 GMT
September 11th, 1922
Czechoslovakia 300h (Scott 78) cancelled in a location in Silesia (haven't been able to determine it).
Vasia, I think that the postmark reads "KARLOVA HUT VE SLEZSKU" From Wikipedia: "Karlova Huť is a former metallurgical village, today part of the town of Králův Dvůr in the district of Beroun. It is about 1.1 km south of Králova Dvora, after Litavka river and D5 motorway. In this part there is the Kingdvor's industrial zone and the railway station. There are 60 addresses. A large part of the settlement was destroyed in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century." What do you think? Does this seem like it could be it?
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Post by Ryan on Sept 11, 2017 20:04:08 GMT
Margrethe II just won't leave us alone, here she is again with a September 11 postmark, with a different font from usual on the date slugs. I bet if I were truly ambitious I could narrow it down to one of a very few possibilities based on that font. Too bad I'm not that ambitious at the moment! This is a different denomination than what I've been able to show so far, at least. And September 11 gives me a couple of matches in my small glassines as well. This block of 4 from the Australian Antarctic Territory features the leopard seal and bears a September 11, 2001 first day cancellation from Kingston, Tasmania. The stamps have the familiar panda logo for the World Wildlife Fund, as it is known where I live, or the World Wide Fund for Nature as it is known everywhere except Canada & the US. British Guiana (now known as Guyana) makes a return with a stamp featuring rice farming. I wonder if any serious philately has ever been done to quantify the percentage of British Guiana postmarks which were applied upside down. Probably not, oh well. I bet at least two-thirds of the BG stamps I have to show in this thread have the cancellation upside down, like this September 11, 1945 example. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 12, 2017 20:31:44 GMT
It's a full set of 4 stamps today, 2 each from the Greenland collection and the small glassines. Of course, a day without Queen Margrethe II is like a day without sunshine. Or was that orange juice? "A day without Queen Margrethe II is like a day without orange juice." Hmmm, still doesn't sound right. This era of stamps is good for the bilingual postmarks, in this case September 12 from Godhavn / K'ek'ertarssuak', now known as Qeqertarssuaq. The grouchy polar bear stops by for another visit. The September 12 postmark is from Egedesminde, now known as Aasiaat. That town name always strikes me as being funny - Aasiaat is the Greenlandic word for "spiders" but there aren't many spiders anywhere in Greenland, so nobody knows why the town has that name. That reminds me - I've seen a big orange spider at the workshop, bigger than any I've seen around here before. I need to look it up and figure out what kind he is. On to the small glassines for a look at eastern Africa. First a Paul Gauguin painting, "Tahitian Women on the Beach", on a stamp from Djibouti with a September 12, 1981 CTO postmark. Let's go next door to Eritrea. Notice the September 12 postmark - the year is indeterminate, might be 1938, might be 1939. But certainly it's after 1936 which was the issue date of the stamp. In 1935-36, Italian Eritrea invaded and conquered Ethiopia. Northern portions of Ethiopia were added to Eritrea and then Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland were merged to become Italian East Africa in 1936 so I'm a bit surprised to see this "Addis Abeba" postmark (known to us as Addis Ababa), as that was part of Ethiopia and later was the capital of Italian East Africa. Was it a part of the "northern portions" of Ethiopia which were given to Eritrea? Why wasn't an Italian East Africa stamp used here? I don't know and I didn't find out in the first 15 minutes I tried figuring it out so it's time to get back to my real job. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 13, 2017 13:38:11 GMT
September 13th, 1924
Cover from Borzhom (Borjomi, Georgia) to Detroit, USA, through Tiflis, 15/9/1924. Franked correctly at 20k with “small head”. Borzhom is a resort town in south-western Georgia. The cds of origin is entirely in the Georgian language: the first word is the town name, the second is the word “Goris” (i.e Gori municipality) and the third is the word “mazra”, i.e region. See Ceresa, vol.4, part 8-12, section B, p.393 for a drawing of this cancel. As per Ceresa the late introduction of this cancel during the Georgian National Republic period makes its surviving examples scarce.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 14, 2017 9:32:06 GMT
I missed yesterday's calendar date due to my own incompetence, drat & blast. So today it's our pair of comedy walruses, postmarked on September 14 from Narssaq (now spelled Narsaq). Not much to go on regarding the town name but it's enough to come up with the correct town - there aren't many in Greenland to choose from, that helps in such matters. Ryan
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 14, 2017 11:27:55 GMT
September 14The flag of Belgium is the central design element on this 5 cent blue violet, dark rose, yellow and black, perf. 12 stamp that was issued in Washington, DC on this date in 1943 as part of the Overrun Countries issue (Scott 914). The image has been cropped from a very bland entire.
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 15, 2017 13:11:36 GMT
September 15This 1/2 Anna light green and black, perf. 13.5x14 stamp (Scott 142; 1935) from India's 7-stamp Silver Jubilee issue, which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the reign of George V, was postmarked on this date in what appears to have been 1935. The stamp features the Gateway of India which is an arch monument built in Bombay to commemorate the landing of King George V and Queen Mary on their visit to India in 1911.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 15, 2017 21:44:58 GMT
Queen Margrethe II can remain seated today, I have 2 Greenlandic stamps we haven't seen yet in this thread. First, another stamp from the Millennium Cultural Issue. This one commemorates the 13th century and shows wooden dolls alongside a trading scene. Trading dolls for an arctic wolf? Sounds a bit lopsided to me - wood is relatively rare in Greenland, although there are trees that grow in the southernmost tip of the country. The September 15, 1983 bilingual handstamp postmark was applied in the capital city of Godthåb / Nûk, now known as Nuuk. On a quick search I didn't find much relating to 13th century wooden dolls, but here's a good article on similar figures from a time in contact with the Western world. Here's a semi-postal stamp from 1988 which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Greenland's postal service. The September 15, 1989 postmark was applied at the philatelic centre in Ammassalik. That town has since been renamed to Tasiilaq. The philatelic centre was brand new in 1989 - it had just been opened on September 1. I also have a stamp to show from my small glassines with a date which matches today's calendar. Here's a September 15, 1902 cancellation from West Devonport on a Tasmanian stamp showing Mount Wellington. This copy has been printed by lithography, for those keeping score - stamps in this series have different catalogue numbers for typography, lithography and engravings, as well as differing watermarks (this one has a V & crown watermark). Ryan
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Post by alanl on Sept 15, 2017 22:25:28 GMT
Manchester on September the 15th, 1881.
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Post by Mick on Sept 16, 2017 0:13:08 GMT
Happy Friday! In 1980, though, September 15 was a Monday. Here's something that was mailed on that day in Le Cannet.
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 16, 2017 14:05:37 GMT
September 16Prince Regent Luitpold is featured on this 5 pfennig brown dark green on green, perf 14v14.5 Bavarian stamp (Scott 78; 1911) postmarked on this date in what was likely 1913.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 16, 2017 14:32:23 GMT
September 16Prince Regent Luitpold is featured on this 5 pfennig brown on green, perf 14v14.5 Bavarian stamp (Scott 78; 1911) postmarked on this date in what was likely 1913. Steve, I don't mean to be a nit-picker, but you may want to amend your post, as Bavaria, Scott #78 is actually dark green on green, not brown, and your scan would seem to confirm that.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 16, 2017 14:45:13 GMT
16th September (1933) Canada, Scott #201, 13-cent dull violet commemorative stamp, depicting the Citadel at Quebec, postmarked on this date in 1933 in Sarnia, Ontario. I acquired this stamp from firstfrog2013 as a part of the TSF Donation Auction lot earlier this year.
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 16, 2017 14:54:56 GMT
Thanks, Chris! I'd blame it on my color blindness but the reality is that I didn't focus closely enough on the catalog entry and pulled the stamp color from the 3pf entry (at least I got the paper color right ).
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Post by Ryan on Sept 17, 2017 0:35:27 GMT
Hello, Queen Margrethe II - long time no see. A September 16 postmark on this 1977 issue. More Danish royalty on my next stamp from Greenland. This 2004 stamp celebrates the royal wedding of Crown Prince Frederick and Mary Donaldson. As it happens, when I was looking up info on yesterday's stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Greenlandic postal system, I found a recent Greenland issue which was released to celebrate the royal couple's copper wedding anniversary. I'm not really in touch with the traditional wedding anniversary gift list so I looked it up on Wikipedia, and there was a little twist to the tale - whereas for most of us the copper anniversary is the 7th wedding anniversary, in Denmark (and the Netherlands) it is the 12-1/2 year wedding anniversary. They were married in May 2004 so the copper anniversary (and the corresponding stamp issue) dates to November 2016. The September 16, 2005 postmark is from Nuuk. Here's an image of the souvenir sheet version of the recent Greenland stamp commemorating the royal couple's copper wedding anniversary. The image was taken from The Pstcrd-Blog. Looks like there won't be a problem with finding living heirs to the Danish throne any time in the near future. One stamp from my small glassines matches this date. This stamp from the Free City of Danzig wears a September 16, 1933 postmark from Danzig proper (now known as Gdańsk, Poland). The syncopated perforations on the top and bottom signify that this is a coil stamp. Ryan
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 17, 2017 16:39:46 GMT
17th September (1908) Canada, Scott #98, 2-cent carmine, one of an 8-stamp set to commemorate the Quebec Tercentenary, depicting King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, postmarked on this date in 1908 in Enterprise, Ontario. This stamp is yet another which I acquired from firstfrog2013 in the TSF Donation Auction lot.
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Post by vasia on Sept 17, 2017 18:00:12 GMT
September 17th, 1912
1k Russian Imperial Arms (wove paper), cancelled in Minsk.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 17, 2017 23:49:53 GMT
September 17, 1968 brings us an early Greenlandic machine cancel on this King Frederick IX definitive, postmarked in Godthåb, now known as Nuuk. I'd rather see more stamps with Princess Mary on them, but there it is. I have another pair of stamps to show from my small glassines. First, Queen Victoria on a stamp from Victoria postmarked September 17 but with no legible date and an unknown (to me) town name. The stamp has a crown & double-lined A watermark, so that dates it to post-federation statehood rather than the pre-federation colonies. And finally, something a bit more exciting (again, to me) - I don't have much from the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now known as Botswana) to show in this thread. The September 17, 1963 postmark was applied in village of Pilikwe. There has been a legal battle raging for years over a planned radioactive waste facility to be located at the village. The latest news I've found had a government official claiming that "the two parties are now on course to reach an agreement on the way forward on the construction of this facility." Doesn't sound very definitive. The stamp itself is part of a common design series released by a large number of small British Commonwealth countries commemorating the 100th anniversary of the International Red Cross. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 18, 2017 13:23:54 GMT
September 18th, 1920 (?)
South Russia 7 rubles imperf (Scott 70), cancelled in Nakhichevan-on-Don.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 18, 2017 14:37:21 GMT
18th September (1970) Great Britain, Scott #642-644, "stamps-on-stamps" commemoratives issued for the Philympia stamp exhibition held in London from 18th to 26th September 1970, postmarked on this date in 1970, first day of issue. Posting photos of these stamps seems timely given the recent visit of TSF members Londonbus1, Anping, and alexcandy to the STAMPEX in London over this past weekend.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 18, 2017 19:55:05 GMT
I have another stamp from Aasiaat ("Spider City"), formerly known by its Danish name of Egedesminde, this one showing a September 18, 1996 postmark. Many of the more recent Greenlandic stamp series run over a few years and the national wildlife series is one of these examples. 1995 was the last year of this 3-year series and this value, the high value of the set that year, shows musk oxen. The Wikipedia article uses "muskoxen" without a space but I've always put the space in there - I wonder which is considered correct for usage here in Canada. One interesting detail from the Wikipedia article is that musk oxen are relatively recent arrivals in Greenland, only making their way there about 1700 years ago. I have a single stamp with a matching date to show from my small glassines. This 1973 Australian Antarctic Territory stamp shows the de Havilland Fox Moth airplane used by Australian polar explorer John Rymill during his 1934-37 expedition to explore Graham Land, familiar to stamp collectors as one of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The September 18, 1980 postmark was applied in Granville, NSW. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 19, 2017 15:41:49 GMT
September 19th, 1928
Cover from Chernigovka (ЧЕРНИГОВКА) п.т.о. (bilingual Russian / Ukrainian cds) to ? (25/9, partial and indistinct arrival cds on back). Franked at 20k for the domestic registered letter rate. The non-standard registration label is perfed on 3 sides, with a misalligned pre-printed registration # changed by hand.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 19, 2017 16:17:41 GMT
19th September (1898) Belgium, Scott #62, 2-centime, violet brown, depicting the Coat of Arms, and postmarked on this date in Brussels (Leopold Quarter) in 1898.
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Post by vasia on Sept 20, 2017 11:01:21 GMT
September 20th, 1910
1 ruble Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled in the city of Lodz, present-day Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 21, 2017 5:28:05 GMT
It's still before midnight so I'll rush and get this posted. Here's a September 20, 1978 machine cancel from Dundas (later known as Pituffik), a site which was near the Thule Air Base. According to Torben Hjørne's incomplete online Greenland postmark catalogue, this machine cancel had just been put into use on September 1, 1978. It's Queen Margrethe II, of course. I'm back in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) in short order after showing this same issue just a few days ago. A September 20, 1963 postmark was applied in Ghanzi on a stamp commemorating the centenary of the International Red Cross. Another once-upon-a-time country comes up next - the Colony of Aden, now a part of Yemen. This September 20, 1951 postmark was applied in the city of Aden and the stamp features a view of the city of Mukalla. Phew, made it with 32 minutes to spare! Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 21, 2017 12:33:49 GMT
September 21st, 1992
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used from Lyuban, Belarus to Vinnitsa, Ukraine after the break-up of the Soviet Union. The PSE was initially uprated to 15k with the 8k octagonal "meter" handstamp in violet and, later in the year, to 1 ruble with the additional 85k large octagonal "meter" handstamp. Notice the continued use of the Soviet meters and postmarks, despite the official dissolution of the country.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 22, 2017 2:29:30 GMT
September 21, 1968 brings us another King Frederick IX definitive with an early Greenlandic machine cancel. Godthåb (now known as Nuuk) was the first location for machine cancels in Greenland and remained the only one for quite a while - a second generation of cancels came in the late 1970s to a number of larger towns in Greenland. Yesterday's example from Dundas belongs to that second generation of machine cancels. A green stamp (UPU code for domestic post card) is seen here with a September 21, 1941 postmark on a stamp used in Metz, the biggest city in Lorraine, which had been annexed by the Germans during World War II (thus the "Lothringen" overprint on the President Hindenburg stamp). Metz is once again a part of France. In looking at the Wikipedia article on Metz, I learned that from the 6th to 8th centuries it had been a part of Austrasia. I had never even heard of Austrasia, and I certainly wouldn't have guessed it was in the area of what is now France and Germany! Ryan
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 22, 2017 8:40:13 GMT
22nd September (1997) U.S., Scott #2173, 5-cent, Great Americans series definitive, and Scott #3139, 50-cent, "stamps-on-stamps" design depicting U.S. #1 honoring Benjamin Franklin, and issued for the Pacific '97 Stamp Exhibition, postmarked on this date in 1997 in White River Junction, Vermont. Unfortunately, the 50-cent Franklin stamp has been damaged somewhere along the way, but apparently after being cancelled.
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