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Post by daniel on Dec 30, 2022 16:06:41 GMT
Can anyone let me know what the V...- part of the cancellation is? Graham
This is a Patriotic V for Victory cancel, ...- being the Morse code for V
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Post by thegubman on Dec 30, 2022 19:17:19 GMT
Thanks Daniel that's very good. I initially thought V for victory then saw the date of 1941 so ruled that out and certainly did not know ...- was morse code for V. Many thanks Graham
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 30, 2022 19:47:56 GMT
The Dah dah dah Dum notes of Beethoven's 5th symphony were used by The BBC for broadcasts to the Resistance and citizens in occupied Belgium , Netherlands, France , Norway , Denmark etcetc because it was also Morse for “V”
as a signal of encouragement rather than the announcement of final Victory
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Post by anglobob on Jun 16, 2023 13:08:47 GMT
Two stamps from Mauritania with postmarks from other territories in French West Africa. Yt 92 with a postmark from Dubreka in French Guinea Yt 48 with a postmark from Cascas in Senegal
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 23, 2023 13:12:11 GMT
Can anyone let me know what the V...- part of the cancellation is? Graham
This is a Patriotic V for Victory cancel, ...- being the Morse code for V I know this is not a " foreign Postmark" but recalling thegubman 's query and daniel 's response I was looking for some where to follow up on the "Dah dah dah DUM" Morse code and V for victory with this censored Australian cover with the patriotic slogan postmark. Sometimes described as " Fate knocking at the door" and the introductory notes of Beethoven's 5th symphony, used as a signature for BBC radio messages to resistance movements in Europe.
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Post by thegubman on Jun 27, 2023 10:48:23 GMT
Here are a trio of GB QEII 1/2d wildings with foreign postmarks, St. Gallen (Switzerland); Cairo (Egypt) and finally the nicest one for me Lord Howe Island N. S. W, (Australia). I had never heard of the island before. Regards Graham
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 27, 2023 11:10:03 GMT
Most of the exaples of foreign postmarks are on Ship or Paqueboat mail. Here are two which are a bit different .. Swedish stamps cancelled in Washington DC with explanatory Cachet. They were conveyed uncancelled by Diplomatic bag to Washington DC and cancelled on arrival
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 16, 2023 12:54:17 GMT
Another case of foreign postmarks , ADVICE of RECEIPT or AVIS De RECEPTION just a bit different Package sent from DIGBY Nova Scotia , Canada with a request paid for notice of delivery in Washington DC of course it has to be datestamped there for return to the sender in Canada
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Post by Linda on Sept 6, 2023 12:07:07 GMT
My New Zealand philatelist friend sent me a postcard from Taiwan using a combination of New Zealand and Taiwanese stamps, which were cancelled in Tainan at the same time: I didn't know the postal agency of a country can cancel a foreign stamp!
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Post by Catweazle on Jan 28, 2024 8:25:40 GMT
In response to thegubman's post below, I posted this on another forum and thought you might be interested. Curious to know how it may have come about? Paquebot?
Here are a trio of GB QEII 1/2d wildings with foreign postmarks, St. Gallen (Switzerland); Cairo (Egypt) and finally the nicest one for me Lord Howe Island N. S. W, (Australia). I had never heard of the island before. Regards Graham
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Post by Catweazle on Jan 28, 2024 8:28:33 GMT
I always liked things like this. There seem to be a number of pre-decimal Australian stamps with Hawaiian or otherwise US cancels. Is it that Australian mail came off a ship and was put into the USPS mail system at the time?
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Post by salmantino on Jan 29, 2024 17:15:08 GMT
In response to thegubman's post below, I posted this on another forum and thought you might be interested. Curious to know how it may have come about? Paquebot? It appears to be the reply half of a reply postcard sent from the UK and used to send a reply from Lord Howe Island. The ½d stamp with the Lord Howe Island posted by thegubman has a similar text behind the stamp and might also have been the reply part of the reply postcard. The cancellation was applied when sending the reply to Scotland. From 1 October 1950, the Empire surface postcard rate was 2d. It was raised to 2½d on 1 October 1957. The 1d stamp could have been applied as the sender from the UK anticipated the increase in the tariff by the time the reply would be sent. A likelier explanation is that the sender from the UK wanted the reply to be sent at the all-up rate (by airmail where possible at the surface rate) for the UPU Empire concession rate. This would have been 2½d from 1 October 1950 (thus requiring a ½d upgrade) and 3d from 1 October 1957 (requiring a 1d upgrade).
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Post by salmantino on Jan 29, 2024 17:21:42 GMT
thegubman See my previous post. This, very clearly, is part of a reply postcard as evidenced by the partial French inscription. The international UPU postcard rate was 2½ d from 1 October 1950 until 1 October 1957. This may have been another reply postcard with a printed 2d stamp, upgraded to 2½d. Unlikely to be a Paquebot item because of the inscription. The paper of the Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, item suggests a similar item. It must have been a gigantic wave making a ship dock at Sankt Gallen for it to be a paquebot item.
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 29, 2024 23:35:33 GMT
So obvious now that salmantino explains it . I thought that the cancel on a little 1/2d stamp was weird, and was at a loss to explain a halfpenny rate. But a clip from a replypaid card as a make up to 2 1/2d just neatly answers the question “ why are they all foreign on a 1/2d stamp?” and 3 such similar all at once, definitely suggests a collector acquiring philatelic postmarks . Having done so it would have been much nicer to have kept the card whole and not clipped the stamp off.
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