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Post by vasia on Sept 22, 2017 11:19:31 GMT
September 22nd, 1894
1 kopeck Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled in Kiliya in the Bessarabian historical district of Budjak (today in Ukraine).
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2017 3:13:45 GMT
Here's a September 22 postmark on a Greenland stamp we haven't seen yet in this thread. This 6 krone stamp was issued in 1978 at a time when the rate for a letter within Greenland or to any Scandinavian country was 1.20 krone. This is a carved whalebone - the object is known in Greenland as a tupilaq. These were originally shamanistic figures which performed much along the lines of a voodoo doll (or at least the common Westerner's view of voodoo, anyway). "The purpose of the tupilak was to be rid of an enemy, and the tupilak attacked in the form of the animal it represented. If it was a seal, it would drag down the hunter and drown him. As a polar bear, it would eat the enemy." They're no longer so sinister and are seen more as pieces of art than as a way to defeat your rivals. The previous quote is from a good article on these figures from an African art website, of all places. Here's another postmark from Egedesminde, now known as Aasiaat, where all the spiders are. This block of stamps issued in 1963 shows the Northern Lights and has a messy September 22, 1969 postmark (I think). I have a single stamp from my small glassines which matches today's date. It's our first one (WRONG!!) from Queensland - this Queen Victoria stamp was issued prior to federation as it has a watermark showing a Crown & Q so that dates from the colonial era, but the postmark date of September 22, 1902 is post-federation so its usage dates from the statehood era. Queensland's capital of Brisbane is the city shown on the postmark. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 23, 2017 11:11:34 GMT
September 23rd, 1923
Pane of 25 of the 30 rubles Soviet Arms overprint on 50k Imperial Arms, cancelled (during the inflationary period) in Krasnoyarsk railway station of Siberia. Typical oval postmark of railway station post offices, first used in the early 20th century, with some surviving during the Soviet period. At this late point in the inflationary period, literally days before the introduction of the gold-ruble standard, an ordinary domestic letter would have required 67 copies of the 30R/50k stamp above in order to be properly franked!
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Post by Mick on Sept 23, 2017 16:15:58 GMT
That Krasnoyarsk railway station postman was the very antithesis of a marker monkey. Talk about thorough.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2017 17:56:59 GMT
It's a full slate of 4 stamps from me today as I have 2 matching dates from both my Greenland collection and my pile of countries stored in small glassines. Well, to be exact there are 5 stamps - first off comes a pair of the 1978 issue which commemorates the founding of Greenland's capital Nuuk (also known then by its Danish name of Godthåb). The September 23 bilingual postmark was applied in Julianehåb / K'ak'ortok', now known as Qaqortoq, the biggest town in the southern area of Greenland. I also have a high-value definitive, a 50 krone bicoloured engraved stamp showing a pair of Atlantic salmon. If they can escape the nets and the predators, these fish can grow to become quite large - the record largest Atlantic salmon was caught in Scotland and weighed 109 lbs / 49 Kg. The September 23, 1986 cancellation is another bilingual handstamp, this time from Jakobshavn / Ilulissat (up where all those tough sled dogs are). The two stamps from my small glassines are both Queen Victoria portraits from Australian states (or perhaps colonies, neither of them shows a year to confirm their period of usage). First, a stamp from South Australia with a September 23 registered mail squared circle postmark from Adelaide. And finally, a September 23 postmark from Leongatha on a stamp from Victoria. Spend some time in Leongatha and learn how to play underwater hockey! (I don't have to go all the way to Australia to do that, though - when I drive to work I pass a sign promoting underwater hockey here in Calgary.) Ryan
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Post by alanl on Sept 24, 2017 22:24:33 GMT
Armstrong, British Columbia on September the 24th.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 25, 2017 0:00:38 GMT
Here's one of my few Greenlandic stamps from the 21st century. This one could also find a place in some of our other threads. Perhaps someday in the future I'll crosspost some of these scans to other threads - after enough time has passed, that is. In this case, this issue would fit nicely into our existing topical collecting threads on both scouting and Europa stamps. The stamp shows a September 24, 2007 postmark applied in Qaqortoq. I've entered a spot on my calendar which is overflowing with those old small Australian statehood / colonial definitives. Almost all of them show Queen Victoria and this is no exception. This stamp from the colony of Victoria shows a September 24, 1891 cancellation from the former gold rush town of Bendigo. Unlike some gold rush towns which have faded into obscurity, Bendigo has continued to thrive in modern times and now boasts a metro population of over 100,000 people. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 25, 2017 14:32:36 GMT
September 25th, 1925
Notification of receipt postcard sent from Moscow to Пошт. Агенство Нова Прилука (Postal Agency at Novaya Priluka), a village in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Returned registered from there (29/9/1925, bilingual Russian/Ukrainian cds – in this case both placenames identical) with the distinctive registration cachet of the postal agency to Moscow (1/10/1925). Franked at 14k – this is the appropriate NOR rate.
Postal agencies were smaller postal offices in rural localities. Their distinctive cds (with the P.A designation) and, especially, their registration cachets are relatively scarce.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 25, 2017 14:43:27 GMT
Here's a September 25, 1985 bilingual postmark from Godthåb / Nûk, now written as Nuuk, showing a woodcut by Aron of Kangeq, an important figure in Greenlandic native art. Aron is mostly known for his watercolour paintings but this stamp depicts a foot race scene that was done as a woodcut. There is a good article in the Encyclopedia of the Arctic which is available as a Google Books preview - hopefully it is available for all, I frequently have problems with Google Books links that work for viewing in America but are blocked here in Canada. You could also have a look at this very detailed article posted as a .PDF file on Eskimo-Art.org. I also have a stamp from Tasmania showing a view of the harbour in Hobart. The cancellation has a date of September 25, 1901 and was postmarked in West Devonport. This series of stamps was printed in three different methods - this stamp is lithographed, and later on I will be able to also show the typographed and engraved versions of this 2 pence stamp (as I can with the red 1 penny view of Mount Wellington). I can't show all of them with the same date, though. If I could, I'd have so many Tasmanian stamps that they wouldn't be stored in my small glassines! Ryan
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 25, 2017 19:31:35 GMT
25th September (1910) Great Britain, Scott #128, depicting King Edward VII, cancelled on this date in 1910, with a very nice clear strike of a PAQUEBOT (mail ship) postmark. Interestingly, Edward VII died on 6th May 1910, so George V was already king by the time this stamp was used.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 26, 2017 16:43:54 GMT
26th September (1962) U.S., Scott #1036, 4-cent Abraham Lincoln definitive, postmarked on this date in 1962 in San Leandro, California. San Leandro is located in the so-called "East Bay" region of the San Francisco Bay Area. I lived in San Leandro from 1993 to 2007, and was given this cover by another long-time resident during that time.
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Post by vasia on Sept 27, 2017 12:06:33 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Sept 28, 2017 11:01:37 GMT
My personal calendar was missing date matches for the last two days in both my Greenland collection and in my small glassines (at least, those I've looked through up to now). Today isn't much better, a single Greenlandic stamp to be shown. It's the whale fluke stamp again but at least this time I can show a town that hasn't been seen yet. The sloppy September 28 cancellation (most likely 1976) comes from Kangatsiaq, now spelled Kangaatsiaq. Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 28, 2017 11:55:59 GMT
September 28th, 1909
15 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled in a location in the Bessarabian governorate (southwestern part of the empire).
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Post by alanl on Sept 28, 2017 22:29:13 GMT
September the 28th in Brussels, Belgium.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 28, 2017 23:47:24 GMT
September the 28th in Brussels, Belgium. Somewhere there's a cancellation collector who keeps track of the states of damage on the top of that outer ring of your cancellation. Somebody dropped something heavy on that device, that's a big dent! I bet that's a common enough postmark that they'll know the date when it happened. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 28, 2017 23:56:51 GMT
I have an example of a damaged Greenlandic cancellation device that repeats nicely. The first image is from Oct. 30 (year unknown), the second from Dec. 20, 1984 (it took a lot of time with my magnifying loupe to confirm these dates, though). It looks like this device was used to cancel a pile of gravel! Gaps everywhere in the town name, and they repeat closely from one cancellation to the next. Surprisingly, considering how poor the condition of the town name is, the outer ring is still pretty much intact. The town name, by the way, is Tiniteqilaq, now spelled Tiniteqilaaq on postmarks, and listed in English Wikipedia according to its East Greenlandic dialect name of Tiilerilaaq. The first stamp just barely makes the cut for clarity for this thread so it will show up in a month or so, but the second one is too poor for this thread - I was only saving the scan for my town name collection. Ryan
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 29, 2017 11:12:02 GMT
29th September (1937) Mozambique, Scott #262, 80-centavos, emerald green, depicting "Portugal" holding a volume of the "Lusiadas" postmarked on this date in 1937 in Lourenco Marques.
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Post by vasia on Sept 29, 2017 15:10:49 GMT
September 29th, 1909
35 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled at a post-office located on the grounds of a factory ("zavod").
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Post by Mick on Sept 29, 2017 15:13:27 GMT
It's 29 September in East Toronto, the M4L mailing area thereof. Here is a wikipedia page listing all the "M" post codes in Canada.
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Post by alanl on Sept 29, 2017 22:27:25 GMT
Edinburgh, Lothian-Fife-Borders, Scotland on September the 29th.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 29, 2017 22:36:38 GMT
Here's a commemorative postmark from Greenland which would have been difficult for me to identify without the help of the German-language articles from the Greenland working group of the FG Nordische Staaten. This September 29, 1974 cancellation comes from Dundas, later Pituffik, the Danish site at the US Thule Air Base way up in the frozen north. The postmark invites tourists to visit Knud Rasmussen's house in Hundested. Rasmussen was an important figure in the study of the Inuit of Greenland and their way of life. I've nabbed an image of the full postmark from the article on Pituffik on the FG Nordische Staaten site. According to that article, this postmark is known to have been in use from 1964 to 1986. Here's our introduction to Bosnia & Herzegovina on our postmark calendar thread. The September 29 postmark probably dates from 1913 and features Emperor Franz Joseph I as the stamp was used during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's rule over Bosnia & Herzegovina. But Franz Joseph was only the Emperor of Austria - depending on where you were from he was maybe your king or your prince or your duke or something else. Maybe even your Grand Voivode, whatever that might be. His full title as of 1914 was as follows: "His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, By the Grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria; King of Jerusalem, etc.; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Friaul, Ragusa and Zara; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trent and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg etc.; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro and on the Windic March; Grand Voivode of the Voivodeship of Serbia, etc., etc." Ryan
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Post by vasia on Sept 30, 2017 12:44:33 GMT
September 30th, 1931
Envelope (with pre-printed address of German machine factory) from Berezniki, Perm krai (Urals) to Halle, Germany (5/10/1931). Franked at 45k with 2x20k + 5k imperf definitives (overweight?). Registered with a handwritten rectangle imitating a registration label, with “R”, the city-name and registration number.
The Berezniki chemical combinat, whose construction began in the fall of 1929, was in full operation by the mid-1930’s and, employing 25.000 workers, produced large quantities of explosives and chemicals for military use. It had extensive Western assistance and equipment. The raw materials for the combinat came from the huge potash deposits of nearby Solikamsk. Possibly the sender of the letter was a foreign engineer / expert working there – the return address is that of a hotel and the sender’s name has a German likeness: “Edm. Radsch”.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 30, 2017 22:50:03 GMT
Here's our first look at one of the issues from the high-value definitive series issued after the various fish stamps, a couple of which we've seen already. I have a few stamps from this series but almost none of them show dated cancels so I won't have very many examples to show. This September 30, 1992 postmark comes from Sisimiut, Greenland's second-largest town which is located at the northern edge of the year-round ice-free zone on the western coast. The stamp features Jonathan Petersen, the composer of the music to Greenland's national anthem which was adopted in 1916. Here's a bit of an oddity. Arsuk is a community which formerly hosted a cryolite mine. Cryolite was formerly important in the production of aluminum and the Arsuk / Ivigtut region was the world's only major source of the mineral. Synthetic production has overtaken natural cryolite due to the mineral's rarity - in fact, the Royal Society of Chemistry states that cryolite is perhaps " the only mineral on Earth ever to be mined to extinction". The cryolite mines closed in 1987 and Arsuk is now in danger of abandonment as the 2017 population is only 83 people. At its peak, Arsuk had around 400 inhabitants, so this postmark has never been overly common. The "rarity", such as it is, is to find an Arsuk cancellation in blue or violet ink, known to have been used only in 1964. This September 30, 1964 postmark in blue ink is on a block of 4 King Frederick IX definitives. Ryan
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 1, 2017 12:54:09 GMT
October 1Postmarked in Bazenheid, Switzerland on this date in 1954.
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Post by Ryan on Oct 1, 2017 22:45:42 GMT
I've hinted before that October 1 was the day of the Great Greenlandic Cancellation Festival. For whatever reason, I have a small boatload of issues that were cancelled to order in blocks of 4 on this date and I have since come across some of these blocks separated into individual stamps. Usually I'll get one of the other stamps out of the block so they're missing the day & month but in many cases I have stamps that look like this, all with an October 1 partial postmark originating in Tasiilaq, the home of Greenland's philatelic centre " Filatelia". Since I restrict myself to 2 stamps per day from my Greenland collection, I'll have stamps to show on this date for at least 5 more years - perhaps more, so far I've only looked through the off-paper stamps without gum and there might be more lurking in my collection of stamps with gum (I store those separately and haven't yet gone through them to look at cancellations). Let's start the festival with a look at a pair of semi-postal stamps (hooray for charity stamps). First, a 1991 issue which commemorated the 75th anniversary of Blue Cross of Greenland. The International Blue Cross is a Christian organization which seeks to prevent and treat problems caused by abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Here's a recent article about a Blue Cross project from Greenland Today, a thrice-yearly magazine published in Danish and English. Next, a part of the multi-year Millennium Cultural issue. This 1982 stamp celebrates the 10th century and features a representation of the adventures of Erik the Red, a Norse explorer who founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland. His son, Leif Erikson, was the first European to explore North America. Ryan
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Oct 1, 2017 23:17:36 GMT
1st October (1997) U.S., Scott #3122, Statue of Liberty definitive (Type of 1994), postmarked on this date in 1997 in Sacramento, California with an interesting "Classic Movie Monsters" cancellation, which may have been advertising the "Classic Movie Monsters" commemorative set of 5 stamps (Scott #3168-3172) which was issued on 30th September, just one day before this postmark. An image of the commemorative stamp set is also shown below. This seemed like a fitting way to start off the month of October, which will, of course, culminate with Hallowe'en on the 31st.
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