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Post by butterfly on Jun 22, 2018 13:59:48 GMT
June 22, 1948
Airmail stamps from Krapkowice, a town of about 17,000 in southwest Poland (Upper Silesia)
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Post by butterfly on Jun 20, 2018 13:37:11 GMT
June 20, 1978 from Prague EXTREME philately at work!!!
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Post by butterfly on Jun 19, 2018 14:52:32 GMT
June 19, 1909 from Porto, Portugal
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Post by butterfly on Jun 18, 2018 14:22:56 GMT
June 18, 1928 from Três Pontas in southern Minas Gerais
View of the mountain of Três Pontas with the shape that gave the city name.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 17, 2018 13:15:14 GMT
June 17, 1957 from Grenoble (on the Isere river) Made the mistake of reading about Grenoble. Now I'm envious...I thought I had picked the nicest place on earth, but Grenoble sounds better!
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Post by butterfly on Jun 16, 2018 14:33:44 GMT
June 16,1934 from Budapest
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Post by butterfly on Jun 15, 2018 15:41:57 GMT
June 15, 1961 from Kobenhavn 9 at 6:15 pm (So what's with the big marble, egg, ball of yarn in the back?)
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Post by butterfly on Jun 14, 2018 14:05:48 GMT
June 14, 1936 from Balingen
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Post by butterfly on Jun 13, 2018 14:55:22 GMT
June 13, 1888 from Mannheim
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Post by butterfly on Jun 12, 2018 15:31:04 GMT
June 12, 1984 from 's-Gravenhage-goudsbloemlaan, which is a highway or street in The Hague! I checked Google and didn't find a PO there, though one was a few blocks away.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 11, 2018 14:53:55 GMT
June 11, 1938 at an unknown hour of the day from Leipzig 01 in Germany Inscription below is Nachträglich entwertet (cancelled afterward or later) The precise meaning is not clear to me. Possibly it means the mail was left in a bin for some time after receipt. Or, does it mean someone forgot to cancel it at the point of origin?
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Post by butterfly on Jun 11, 2018 14:24:18 GMT
If it is OK with you I'd like to add another cancel (maybe not a postmark?) and beg for insight into it's origin. Mods..let me know if this belongs in another thread and I'll try to move it.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 10, 2018 16:59:33 GMT
June 10, 1954 from the Metz railroad station.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 8, 2018 14:31:21 GMT
June 8, 1943 from Cham on lake Zug. The Stamp depicts Chillon castle on lake Geneva.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 6, 2018 14:14:56 GMT
June 6, 1924 from Reykjavik, Iceland
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Post by butterfly on Jun 5, 2018 14:07:31 GMT
June 5, 1989 from Plön, Germany
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Post by butterfly on Jun 4, 2018 13:23:22 GMT
June 4, 1913? from Darney in the Vosges region of France. EDIT:
I was confused by the apparent 1940 lettering, which I expected to indicate time of day, so I found a stamp with a similar type of cancel and again see what appears to be a distorted 40. What am I missing?
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Post by butterfly on Jun 4, 2018 13:01:39 GMT
Steve, thank you for the clarification. Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 3, 2018 14:51:21 GMT
I thought this stamp was cancelled on June 3, 1959 in Hamilton, Bermuda. However the stamps in this series were issued on July 29, 1959. (Ooops!)
The arms of James I and Elisabeth II were printed by lithography while the text was engraved. Here is the coat of arms of Hamilton.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 2, 2018 12:00:59 GMT
June 2, 1905 from Hamburg
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Post by butterfly on Jun 1, 2018 15:15:03 GMT
June 1, 1993 from Reykjavik
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Post by butterfly on May 30, 2018 13:44:07 GMT
May 30, 1917 from Watford, England (near London)
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Post by butterfly on May 29, 2018 14:36:19 GMT
May 29, 1956 from Zaandam, Netherlands
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Post by butterfly on May 27, 2018 13:54:10 GMT
May 27, 1885 from Bruchsal, Germany
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Post by butterfly on May 24, 2018 13:59:15 GMT
May 24, 1983 (or 5) From ?eiloin? New Zealand
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Post by butterfly on May 23, 2018 13:44:04 GMT
May 23, 1946 from Luzern 1(also called Lucerne)
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Post by butterfly on May 22, 2018 18:09:27 GMT
May 22, 1968 on a letter from St. Gallen 1 (the 9000 postcode really helped!)
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Post by butterfly on May 21, 2018 23:34:18 GMT
Nice stamps!, but cataloging would be huge task. If I were doing it I would just make up a label for each one based on maybe approximate year and country. But that's just lazy me. I might check goggle image on some to see how they are being described by others. I have a German envelope and postcard catalog. It has 416 pages. (Title: Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog Deutschland 1991)
I would call The top stamp you showed "Bavaria, circa 1895-1907 " Here is one of five pages Michel devotes to that type of postcard.
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Post by butterfly on May 20, 2018 16:22:17 GMT
May 20, 1946 from Bulle, Switzerland. The stamps are #229 (type I, no grilled gum )
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Post by butterfly on May 19, 2018 13:09:23 GMT
May 19, 1941 from ?(Chiasso?) in Switzerland The stamp is a Scott 272 with granite paper. Note the red fiber on the right edge, above the little arrow I drew. There are also two other varieties of the stamp with different paper types.
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