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Post by butterfly on May 17, 2018 14:30:40 GMT
May 17, 1922 from Budapest
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Post by butterfly on May 16, 2018 13:58:40 GMT
May 16, 1936 from a small village, Morand, pop. 322, in the Inore et Loire region of France. Also, I learned from Google that Hotels.com can show me the top ten hotels in Morand and that Facebook has profiles of people named France Morand.
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Post by butterfly on May 15, 2018 13:53:24 GMT
May 15, 1971 from Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
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Post by butterfly on May 14, 2018 13:13:42 GMT
May 14, 1937 Scott #290 A bit ironic, a stamp issued to commemorate a postal congress and overprinted UPU apparently used as a telegraph stamp.
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Post by butterfly on May 13, 2018 12:52:22 GMT
May13, 1937 from Oberursel, which also is called Taunus
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Post by butterfly on May 13, 2018 12:34:31 GMT
Possibly someone at 810 security bldg. provided the extra stamp and the new address?
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Post by butterfly on May 11, 2018 13:47:39 GMT
May 11, 1982 from ? (possibly a federal administration department?)
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Post by butterfly on May 10, 2018 12:39:14 GMT
May 10, 1962 from the Hamburg Airport on a Scott #760
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Post by butterfly on May 9, 2018 12:55:50 GMT
How about Grand Rapids, Mich. (GRAND RAP.)
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Post by butterfly on May 8, 2018 12:36:50 GMT
May 8, 1967 from North Point, Hong Kong
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Post by butterfly on May 6, 2018 13:58:03 GMT
May 6, 1918 on a Scott #207 from somewhere in the State of Amazonas. City of origin remains a mystery!
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Post by butterfly on May 5, 2018 13:44:30 GMT
May 5, 19xx from Ferdinand, Indiana A town with a monastery and about two thousand people. It was named after Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.
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Post by butterfly on May 4, 2018 12:56:50 GMT
May 4, 1935 from Stettin, Germany.....now Szczecin, Poland
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Post by butterfly on May 4, 2018 12:28:50 GMT
Gavin!
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Post by butterfly on May 3, 2018 14:30:53 GMT
May 3, 1972 from Reykjavik. The bottom letters remain a mystery to me. (something, post office?)
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Post by butterfly on May 3, 2018 0:30:23 GMT
May 2, 1906 from Hainichen, Germany (probably Saxony)
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Post by butterfly on May 1, 2018 13:21:33 GMT
May 1, 1915 from Osterhofen, Bavaria The Osterhofen war memorial
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Post by butterfly on Apr 30, 2018 13:31:44 GMT
April 30, 1976 at 9 AM from Plaine des Papayes, Mauritius
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Post by butterfly on Apr 28, 2018 14:12:17 GMT
I'd vote for environmental exposure as the culprit. I've seen a lot of these used 2d stamps in extremely faded condition. Also, referring to the image of the full envelope, note how the paper is yellowed in a band along the top. The ink was likely mostly carbon black or something similar to carbon black and highly resistant to moisture, sunlight, ozone, etc.
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Post by butterfly on Apr 28, 2018 13:54:48 GMT
April 28, 1976 from Rose Hill, Mauritius This series had a long run, about 8 years(1969-77) with three different watermark types. This particular stamp is Scott 346b.
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Post by butterfly on Apr 26, 2018 13:39:13 GMT
April 26, 1943 from Barranquilla, Columbia Pretty big, considering I'd never heard of it before.
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Post by butterfly on Apr 25, 2018 13:05:18 GMT
April 25, 1959 from San Francisco to San Francisco via Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika
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Post by butterfly on Apr 25, 2018 12:53:15 GMT
The original package illustrates the separate stamps much better than the sheet itself, which doesn't have the white line borders in between the stamps.
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Post by butterfly on Apr 24, 2018 12:25:16 GMT
April 24, 1933 from Cape Town(Kaapstad)
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Post by butterfly on Apr 23, 2018 13:25:25 GMT
Welcome Baffled. In reading your posts, I feel the urge to give lots of advice, but am holding off, as you already seem to be zooming up the learning curve at an incredible rate. My only contribution, I suppose is to repeat that getting rid of moisture is job one. With lots of envelopes in the collection, there will be a huge amount of moisture retained, I expect. I had a bunch of envelopes (first day covers, etc.) in a trunk and managed to pull out PINTS of water using calcium chloride desiccant. I read you are logging them into Excel. Making an inventory data base is a huge job. I would flame out rapidly if I tried that. I've(after 50years of collecting) regressed to the "stuff them in lighthouse brand stockbooks, ziplock bags, or glassine envelopes" stage. EDIT: I just realized I mentioned ziplock bags without mentioning that they can be a problem. Any paper item put into a closed container at low temperatures will exhale moisture on warming, leading to high humidity and possible mold problems. For example, many police evidence bags have holes to allow moisture release on warming.
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Post by butterfly on Apr 22, 2018 12:45:43 GMT
April 22, 1907 presumably from Sala, Sweden, a town of about 12,000 people. Scott No. 61
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Post by butterfly on Apr 21, 2018 11:55:04 GMT
I'm trying but failing to understand the type of revenue usage. Why did the Campbell xxx company use a penny stamp to confirm payment to them. Wouldn't just a "payment received" cancel with added signature of the employee be sufficient? Does using a stamp underneath make it more tamper proof or satisfy some legal requirement?
EDIT: While attempting to learn more about revenues I saw this statement on Wiki which possibly answers my question. "Governments enforce the payment of the tax by making unstamped documents unenforcable in court."
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Post by butterfly on Apr 19, 2018 14:00:33 GMT
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Post by butterfly on Apr 17, 2018 13:24:09 GMT
April 17, 1944 from Caledon, Ontario From Wiki A river runs through it, of cars
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Post by butterfly on Apr 16, 2018 13:17:16 GMT
April 16, 1891 A TPO from train number 52 in Switzerland. Unfortunately the route number(at the bottom of the the cancel) is missing. OK, maybe route number 7? Now if only I knew how to translate route numbers into locations!
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