stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on Dec 7, 2018 15:30:27 GMT
A well-stamped commercial cover from Gdynia, Poland (on the coast) to San Diego CA. My dad worked for the recipient company. The sender may have known my mom collected stamps, and loaded it up for her benefit.   |
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Mick
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Posts: 929 
What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on Apr 29, 2019 0:45:03 GMT
Here is one to Hadera, Israel, postmarked in Warsaw on 5 November 2010. The stamp placement is a little irregular.  |
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Post by luciano on Jun 15, 2020 22:18:03 GMT
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ameis33
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet
Posts: 505
What I collect: Poland and Italy Republic
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Post by ameis33 on Jun 16, 2020 6:55:51 GMT
In Poland, the use of stamps to frank postage is not so poor like in Italy (what about in the US?)... In every post office there is well exposed a table with all stamps currently available and valid for postage and the stamps which are no more valid... Stamps don't have an eternal validity like in Italy (again, what about in the US?)
People like to frank postage with beautiful stamps rather then using definitives. The outcoming letters at my eyes could seem "philatelic" because i'm not used to do so, me like almost everyone in Italy... or maybe this wish has gone lost...
So all the letters shown are regular letters with regular franking, maybe not used as single, but nothing to do with CTO
Also people were used to write more... The mother of my wife was used to prepare letters with the name of the sender already written and with stamps pre-attached, a sort of private postal stationery... Or do you want to see the letters that my wife's grandmother, almost 96 years old, gave me?
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ameis33
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet
Posts: 505
What I collect: Poland and Italy Republic
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Post by ameis33 on Jun 19, 2020 17:29:59 GMT
These are among my favourite stamps. Poland 1919 with the "Polska Wystawa Marek" overprint, issued for the first national philatelic exhibition in Warsaw. There is a heap of these stamps applied on letters with the "WARSZAWA WYSTAWA MAREK" cancel, but these are to be considered as philatelic items, souvenir of the exhibition... Much more interesting the same stamps used postaly Here a couple of postcards...  |
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ameis33
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet
Posts: 505
What I collect: Poland and Italy Republic
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Post by ameis33 on Aug 4, 2020 14:39:04 GMT
A nice air mail letter, tied with a commemorative cancel for the International Horse Show held (where?) in 1927...  |
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Post by sebastian on Sept 11, 2020 18:28:47 GMT
Shipment sent in Królewska Huta to the city Lipsk. Interesting turn at the back.   Sorry for the cropped picture, too high quality. I don't know how to add photos yet. |
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ameis33
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet
Posts: 505
What I collect: Poland and Italy Republic
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Post by ameis33 on Sept 11, 2020 21:29:10 GMT
Yes, you should post a better image of the back... Anyway if you press on the second picture, you can see it better... The stamps are applied on the back, tied in the center of the cover, as a kind of seal... And the oval cancel of the train post office BRESLAU-REUTHEN (Obershlesien), Train (Zug) 40, are applied on the remaining 4 corners again like a kind of seals... Cancels and stamps apposed in this way (in the center and in the 4 corners) remember me the wax sealing of insured letters... I'm not sure if this is a simple registered letter or if it is insured. I don't see any additional marking, but the "a" apposed below the "R" in the registration tag makes me think about it... Nice letter. |
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Post by sebastian on Sept 22, 2020 7:00:51 GMT
Thanks 😀😀 Tak, powinieneś opublikować lepszy obraz pleców... W każdym razie, jeśli naciśniesz drugie zdjęcie, możesz zobaczyć go lepiej ... Znaczki są nakładane na odwrocie, związane w środku pokrywy, jako rodzaj pieczęci... I owalne anulować pocztę kolejową BRESLAU-REUTHEN (Obershlesien), Pociąg (Zug) 40, są stosowane na pozostałych 4 rogach ponownie jak rodzaj uszczelki ... Anuluje i znaczki apposed w ten sposób (w centrum i w 4 rogach) pamiętam wosk uszczelniania ubezpieczonych listów ... Nie jestem pewien, czy jest to prosty list polecony, czy jest ubezpieczony. Nie widzę żadnych dodatkowych oznakowania, ale "a" apposed poniżej "R" w tagu rejestracji sprawia, że myślę o tym ... Miły list. |
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Post by smauggie on Apr 16, 2021 23:57:12 GMT
Warsaw, Poland, WWI German Occupation  |
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Post by smauggie on Apr 16, 2021 23:59:27 GMT
Poznan, Poland Express mail franking and etiquette as well as balloon mail franking and cancel. The machine cancel is a slogan cancel advertising the Posnan International Trade Fair. The flight ended up getting cancelled due to poor weather.  |
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ameis33
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet
Posts: 505
What I collect: Poland and Italy Republic
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Post by ameis33 on Apr 17, 2021 2:40:29 GMT
On the left side, the purple stamp sounds like "for technical reasons, the "POZNAN" balloon didn't take off. Mails have been delivered through normal postal ways"
Maybe a philatelic item, but a nice and clean letter.
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Post by smauggie on Apr 20, 2021 17:12:20 GMT
Occupied Poland Warsaw General Government Postal AuthorityCan anyone tell what the destination of this cover is. Also, I am having a hard time making out the marking in violet. 
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brightonpete
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On a hike at Goodrich-Loomis
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 20, 2021 18:13:32 GMT
Looks like it is going to Berlin, Malifiorstr. 9
Perhaps Florastrße 9, Mali, Berlin?
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cara
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Posts: 198
What I collect: Germany (FRG, GDR, Berlin); occupied Germany 1945-1949, Deutsches Reich 1872-1945, Switzerland, USA (newbie)
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Post by cara on Apr 20, 2021 18:57:32 GMT
Berlin
Melchiorstr. 9
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napo
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Posts: 40
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Post by napo on Apr 21, 2021 2:32:11 GMT
Polish stamps are beautiful, and I am lucky to have quite a number of the stamps in my collection.
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