Need help Kronstadt, Romania

Kronstadt is now in Romania and is known as Brașov.  One of your postcard photos is also shown on the English Wikipedia page for Brașov - the large building is known as the Black Church.

Ryan

Since you started this thread, kosmo, you can change the title. Press Edit on your 1st post and change the subject of your thread !

René

kosmo





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Thanks,friends!

Not "Stalingrad", although it had the same meaning. "From 1950 to 1960, during part of the Communist period in Romania, the city was called Orașul Stalin (Stalin City), lit. "Stalin City", after the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.[12]"- wikipedia.org

I should know, since I fortunately don't have that "steely" name on my entry doc in this life...😉

Have fun kosmo - this is the best Forum for that !!

1945 Nagyvarad / Oradsea Local Post Second Issue (7 March 1945), unlisted in Scott.  On researching the only stamp I have from the set (the beat up 30f stamp shown in the first scan), I found some information that may be of interest to all.  There are 31 stamps in the set [15 imperforate with 2400 sets issued and 15 perforated 10 1/2 issued in a larger quantity, plus an additional imperforate 10f red on brown (not the 10 f brown only that exists in both the perf and imperf sets) with 1200 issued].  The inscriptions are bilingual and read: DIRECTIUNEA POSTEI ORADEA ('By Oradea Post' in Romanian) and NAGYVARAD POSTAI GAZATOSAG ('By Nagyvarad Post' in Hungarian).  I found the additional scans on the internet, including some of covers.  Some of the cover pictures show bilingual censor markings.  One dealer on the internet is offering the complete 31 stamp set in mint condition for a little more than Euro 250,00.  I have not found out the value of the covers.  

Oradea 2nd Issue:  I agree.  I also did not like the set of "censored" covers as they look like philatelic souvenirs.  The other cover I included came from a website that did not include a picture of the back. Here are some of the websites from which I obtained the scans:  <https://www.stampcircuit.com/category/1-oradea-nagyvarad> and <http://www.romaniastamps.com/local/oradea.htm>   I think we both have been looking at the same websites not listed here.

Unless I am misreading the date of the cancel on the single cover Oradea second issue stamps I provided, it is March 5, 1945 (not March 9, 1945) or two days before the second issue set was purported issued.  Your scan of the Oradea first issue stamps on the postcard with the "La firme n'existe plus" label was mailed on 7 March 1945, the supposed date of issue of the second Oradea issue.  Your scan of the second Oradea stamps on the envelope to nearby Debrecen in Hungary was  cancelled two days later on March 9, 1945.  The three second issue covers we both think are souvenirs are cancelled March 13, 1945.  The Nagyvarad cancels on all of the covers look quite similar.  Do you think any of these covers were actually carried in the post?