tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Dec 17, 2017 13:56:46 GMT
December 17A holiday spray-on cancel was applied to this cover in South Suburban Illinois (Chicago Metro Area) on this date in 2014. The non-denominational forever stamp, depicting the Fort McHenry flag and fireworks, was issued on January 28, 2014 in both coil (2) and booklet form (Scott 4853, 4854 and 4855, respectively).
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2017 14:50:16 GMT
17th December (1921) Norway, Scott #87, 25-øre red lilac post-horn design definitive stamp, postmarked on this date in 1921 in the town of Raudeberg. From Wikipedia: "Raudeberg is a village in Vågsøy Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located on the east side of the island of Vågsøy. Raudeberg (historically spelled Rødberg) was the administrative centre of the former municipality of Nord-Vågsøy, which existed from 1910 until 1964. Today, it is the second largest settlement in the municipality, after Måløy. The 0.57-square-kilometer (140-acre) village has a population (2013) of 648, giving the village a population density of 1,137 inhabitants per square kilometer (2,940/sq mi)."   
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Post by alanl on Dec 17, 2017 19:23:58 GMT
Colchester, Essex, England on December the 17th.  |
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Post by butterfly on Dec 18, 2017 14:23:08 GMT
Karen Blixen was an author best known for the novel Out of Africa which was made into a movie .
Frederiksværk is a town of about 12,000 which had a cannon foundry. My previous postmark entry had an æ which got converted to ä by wikipedia, but this æ is a keeper. (Very nice to be able to find the character map on the computer.)   |
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Post by vasia on Dec 18, 2017 15:44:43 GMT
December 18th, 1967 (corrected thanks to Beryllium Guy)
Belgium 6 frs (Scott 460, king Baudouin definitive), cancelled in Brussels.
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Post by asur1984 on Dec 18, 2017 18:10:23 GMT
I'm finding it really fascinating looking through some of these postmarks, looking at where the stamps have been and when. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of mine sorted out soon and get showing them off.
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Post by alanl on Dec 18, 2017 18:44:50 GMT
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England on December the 18th.  |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 18, 2017 20:43:03 GMT
December 18th, 1957
Belgium 6 frs (Scott 460, king Baudouin definitive), cancelled in Brussels.
Vasia, I just took a quick look, and noticed that Scott #460 was not issued until 1958, so the postmark is most likely from 1967. Just FYI. |
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Dec 18, 2017 22:21:10 GMT
December 18This Rudolph stamp (Scott 4946), one of 4 in the set issued November 6, 2014, was postmarked in Fayetteville, North Carolina on this date in 2014.
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vasia
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Post by vasia on Dec 19, 2017 10:09:25 GMT
December 19th, 1914
Cover from Barvenkovo, Kharkov through Petrograd (22/12) to Shlissel'burg Prison (arrival cds of Christmas day). Blue oval censormark: "Shlissel'burg / Examined / Hard Lab.Prison". Two additional manuscript censor markings on the front of the cover: a) a "Pro" = "Prosmotryeno" = "Examined" and b) a "Ne propushchi" = "Do not let it through". So the czar's political prisoner probably did not receive his correspondence.
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 19, 2017 14:06:39 GMT
19th December (1933) China, Scott #251, 2-cent yellow green definitive stamp depicting a Chinese junk, postmarked on this date in 1933 in Shanghai. 
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Post by alanl on Dec 19, 2017 19:05:40 GMT
December the 19th at Zwolle, Netherlands.  |
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Post by vasia on Dec 20, 2017 13:56:55 GMT
December 20th, 1911
Picture postcard (with Christmas greetings) mailed from Omsk railway station (Siberia, typical oval postmark of railway station post-offices) to a location in Perm guberniya. The violet handstamp is of unknown origin. Franked correctly at 3 kopecks.
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Dec 20, 2017 14:49:12 GMT
December 20This 60 stotinki ultramarine, ocher, red & gray, imperf. miniature sheet commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Levski Physical Culture Association (Scott 1340; June 8, 1964) was postmarked in Varna, Bulgaria on this date in 1971.
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Mick
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Post by Mick on Dec 20, 2017 16:04:59 GMT
On this date last year, I got an envelope that went through the Albany post office in the afternoon. Not the most exciting postmark ever, but it has a festive slogan.  |
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Post by alanl on Dec 20, 2017 18:12:01 GMT
December the 20th in Gravenhage, Netherlands.  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 20, 2017 18:14:19 GMT
20th December (1938) Canada, Scott #241, 10-cent dark carmine commemorative depicting the Memorial Chamber in the Canadian Parliament Building in Ottawa, postmarked in Vancouver, British Columbia on this date in 1938. This stamp is the lowest value in a set of five pictorial images. I acquired this stamp from firstfrog2013 as part of the TSF Donation Auction lot earlier this year. Thanks, Frog! 
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 21, 2017 9:02:23 GMT
21st December (1917) U.S., Scott #498 (probably--need to check perf size to confirm), 1-cent green definitive depicting George Washington, postmarked on this date in Tacoma, Washington in 1917, exactly 100 years ago today. Checking on the "Lewis Branch" noted in the postmark, I was able to find references to a Fort Lewis in the Tacoma area, but a brief search did not reveal more. The business side of this postcard bears a Christmas greeting, but the other side shows a portrait of then-U.S. President Woodrow Wilson with the U.S. flag and a pro-Wilson patriotic slogan, presumably regarding his stance on U.S. involvement in World War I, which was ongoing at that time. It should also be noted that the picture shows the 48-star U.S. flag behind Wilson, as this card was printed after Arizona, the 48th state, was admitted to the union in 1912, but long before Alaska (49th) and Hawaii (50th) were admitted as states in 1959.  
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Dec 21, 2017 10:48:32 GMT
November 29th, 1923
Germany inflation-period 2 milliarden (Scott 295). Any help in deciphering the postmark would be appreciated!
I'm very late to the party here but I'd like to take a wild stab at this. How about Sangerhausen? Sangerhausen is famous for its rosarium and that could be the word found in the bottom half of the postmark. Since it's unlikely that the same word would feature twice on the postmark, the word under the town name could be "Rosenstadt" or "city of roses" ( Mick will scream "hey, that's Portland's nickname!"). On a quick search I can't find any examples that match to prove my idea but here are a couple other Werbestempeln that link Sangerhausen with roses.   Ryan |
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Post by Ryan on Dec 21, 2017 11:08:13 GMT
22nd March (1948) Canada, Scott #C9 Airmail depicting Canadian Geese in Flight, postmark city illegible. This example also came from First Frog's TSF Donation Auction ( firstfrog2013 ) lot.  And I'm super double extra late to the party on this one. It looks like you have a Railway Post Office (RPO) cancel on this one, cancelled on the Halifax, Bridgewater & Yarmouth railway. The postmark reads HX. BR. & YAR. on the top and R.P.O. on the bottom. That's a fun combination, an RPO cancel on an airmail stamp! The BNAPS RPO Study Group Newsletter from Nov-Dec 2009 has full details on the RPO cancels from this railway. Ryan |
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Post by Ryan on Dec 21, 2017 11:14:54 GMT
Germany inflation-period 2 milliarden (Scott 295). Any help in deciphering the postmark would be appreciated!
I'm very late to the party here but I'd like to take a wild stab at this. How about Sangerhausen? OK, a bit more snooping and I found enough of a postmark on an eBay listing to confirm that it's from Sangerhausen.  Ryan |
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Mick
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Post by Mick on Dec 21, 2017 16:12:55 GMT
On this date in 1981, the San Rafael post office reminded us to support our lung association by using Christmas seals.  I did intend to do that this year, but... forgot. Perhaps I will remember to get Easter seals. |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 21, 2017 17:03:24 GMT
22nd March (1948) Canada, Scott #C9 Airmail depicting Canadian Geese in Flight, postmark city illegible. This example also came from First Frog's TSF Donation Auction ( firstfrog2013 ) lot. And I'm super double extra late to the party on this one. It looks like you have a Railway Post Office (RPO) cancel on this one, cancelled on the Halifax, Bridgewater & Yarmouth railway. The postmark reads HX. BR. & YAR. on the top and R.P.O. on the bottom. That's a fun combination, an RPO cancel on an airmail stamp! The BNAPS RPO Study Group Newsletter from Nov-Dec 2009 has full details on the RPO cancels from this railway. Well, Ryan, aren't you the detective today! Thanks so much for pointing this RPO cancellation out to me, as I could not make heads or tails of it. I will check out the study group newsletter, too. Thanks again! |
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Post by alanl on Dec 21, 2017 18:17:00 GMT
TPG Post, Netherlands on December the 21st. TPG Post is the name of the privatized Dutch Post Service.  |
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Dec 21, 2017 20:29:31 GMT
December 21Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf is featured on this 20 ore gray, perf. 12.5 vertically stamp (Scott 435; 1952) postmarked in Stockholm on this date in 1955.
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Post by vasia on Dec 22, 2017 13:54:31 GMT
December 22nd, 1933
Cover from Baku (bilingual modified Latin/Russian cds) to Tiflis (2 postmarks of 27/12/1933: one of Tiflis vokzal, bilingual Georgian/Russian and one entirely in Georgian). Registered with black wavy “З” handstamp and franked correctly at 40k with definitives. Addressed to the Trancaucasian GPU (State Political Directorate, i.e "secret police").
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Post by butterfly on Dec 22, 2017 15:57:40 GMT
An Austrian airmail cover from Vienna to Flint, Michigan. The stamp, a #632 showing a Vickers-Viscount airplane, is NOT an airmail stamp, though it commemorated the re-opening of "Austrian Airlines" and was meant to be used primarily on airmail letters. PS: Scott doesn't list any airmail stamps for Austria between 1953 and 1968. PSS: Does anyone know what the little purple flower signifies??  |
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Dec 22, 2017 16:58:58 GMT
...Does anyone know what the little purple flower signifies?? An interesting marking which I'd be surprised to learn was applied on this side of the Atlantic. |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 22, 2017 17:34:26 GMT
22nd December (1916) U.S., Scott #405 (probably--need to check perf size to confirm), 1-cent green definitive stamp depicting George Washington and postmarked on this date in 1916 in San Francisco, California. The postmark is one I have not seen before, advertising the Panama-California International Exposition held in San Diego that year, rather than the Panama-Pacific Exposition which was held in San Francisco in 1915. From Wikipedia: "The Panama–California Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California, between 1st January 1915, and 1st January 1917. The exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, and was meant to tout San Diego as the first U.S. port of call for ships traveling north after passing westward through the canal. The fair was held in San Diego's large urban Balboa Park."  
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