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Post by vasia on Feb 24, 2018 12:10:12 GMT
February 24th, 1967
South Africa 2 1/2 cents (Scott 314), cancelled in Piketberg, Western Cape.
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Post by butterfly on Feb 24, 2018 13:44:39 GMT
Feb 24, 1938 Barth is in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  |
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Post by vasia on Feb 25, 2018 12:23:10 GMT
February 25th, 1910
3k Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled in Chestokhov, today Czestochowa, southern Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
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Post by butterfly on Feb 25, 2018 13:21:11 GMT
February 25, 1946 from Amsterdam, arriving March 4.  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 25, 2018 16:50:33 GMT
Budapest, Hungary on February the 22nd.  Thanks for this nice post, Alan. It seems that we have not had very many postmarks on stamps of classic Hungary in this thread. I wanted to take a moment here to ask a question, especially of those who are much more knowledgeable in classic postmarks from eastern Europe than I am: is there any chance that this postmark might be from 3rd February 1922, rather than the 22nd of February? I am away from home on travel right now, so I do not have access to my stamps from Hungary, but in looking through those in the recent past, I had drawn the conclusion that most early Hungarian postmarks show the year first, similar to what Andrew ( butterfly ) discovered when figuring out how to read the dates on postmarks from classic Japan. So, @falshung , vasia , tomiseksj , Mick , what do you think? Is this more likely from 22nd Feb or 3rd Feb? Just interested in anyone else's observations. |
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 25, 2018 18:27:48 GMT
...is there any chance that this postmark might be from 3rd February 1922, rather than the 22nd of February?... I believe that Chris ( Beryllium Guy ) is correct. Below is a Hungarian stamp with a more complete postmark that indicates the year it was cancelled at the front of the date string (in its case, April 23, 1926). |
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Post by vasia on Feb 25, 2018 19:21:06 GMT
I would tend to agree with Chris and Steve about the dates on Hungarian postmarks. Here is a postmark from Orsova from 1906. So now we have dates (1906 and 1926) before and after the stamp in question. I also have clear postmarks with "916" (1916). We need to find a literature source or an expert.
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Post by vasia on Feb 26, 2018 14:54:08 GMT
February 26th, 1918
1 ruble Russian Imperial Arms, used after the October revolution in Samarkand, central Asia, today in Uzbekistan.
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Post by butterfly on Feb 27, 2018 14:49:40 GMT
Feb 27, 1986 from Hillegom, Netherlands  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 27, 2018 22:57:56 GMT
Feb 27, 1986 from Hillegom, Netherlands... Were Roman numerals used to reflect the months in these type of Netherlands' postmarks or is the cancellation date November 27, 1986? |
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Post by judith on Feb 27, 2018 23:08:12 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 27, 2018 23:24:19 GMT
Feb 27, 1986 from Hillegom, Netherlands... Were Roman numerals used to reflect the months in these type of Netherlands' postmarks or is the cancellation date November 27, 1986? Steve ( tomiseksj ), I think Andrew ( butterfly ) has correctly identified the month as a Roman numeral, because if you look beyond the year (86) in the postmark, you can see a "1" with a serif on the top. If the month was supposed to be November, I think that those would have had serifs, too. Just my opinion.... |
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 27, 2018 23:29:46 GMT
I believe you're correct -- this was another example of why I'm not good at flyspecking!
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Post by butterfly on Feb 28, 2018 1:04:12 GMT
I took a quick look at some of my Netherlands postmarks and noticed they all had roman numerals for the month, even on older ones,such as the one below.  After being totally convinced, I then found this next one from November!!! (or is it really February?  )  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 28, 2018 1:32:59 GMT
I took a quick look at some of my Netherlands postmarks and noticed they all had roman numerals for the month, even on older ones,such as the one below. After being totally convinced, I then found this next one from November!!! (or is it really February? ) Well done, Andrew! You have found examples of both types of postmarks. Once again, I think that the serifs on the "1" are the key to correctly reading the numbers. So, in your latest post, the top image clearly uses a Roman numeral for the month, and the bottom one, because of the serifs on the 1s, seems to me to be "11" for November. Once again, just my opinion, but I think you have it right. |
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Post by Mick on Feb 28, 2018 1:37:10 GMT
It's the 27th of February in... well, somewhere in UK.  |
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Post by vasia on Feb 28, 2018 13:03:12 GMT
February 28th, 1922
Soviet Union Volga Famine Relief semi-postal (Scott B14), cancelled in Petrograd. These stamps had a face value of 2.250 rubels: 250 rubles for the postal charge and 2.000 rubles for charity.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 28, 2018 16:09:17 GMT
28th FebruaryNyasaland Protectorate, Scott #13, 1-penny scarlet King George V definitive stamp postmarked on this date. These stamps were in use from 1913-1919, but no year is visible from the CDS. The Nyasaland Protectorate is present-day Malawi. 
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Post by butterfly on Mar 1, 2018 15:17:55 GMT
March 1, 1919 from Bjerge, Denmark Bjerge is so small I couldn't even find it on Google. Nevertheless, I did find it on a google map west of Copenhagen, but don't know how to pull images from the map.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 1, 2018 15:38:57 GMT
March 1st, 1938
Egypt 2 mills (Scott 207), cancelled in Cairo.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 1, 2018 19:01:26 GMT
March 1, 1919 from Bjerge, Denmark Bjerge is so small I couldn't even find it on Google. Nevertheless, I did find it on a google map west of Copenhagen, but don't know how to pull images from the map. Thanks for your post today, Andrew. Just to complete your thought, here is a "snip" of the Google map image you probably saw. I am guessing that there are multiple options for getting this, but I use the "Snipping Tool" on my laptop, which I think is part of the standard Microsoft suite of software on many computers.  |
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Post by butterfly on Mar 2, 2018 1:42:18 GMT
Beryllium Guy Thanks for the info. Yes that is the map location I found. I use Fire Fox and finally found their beta version called screenshots which seemed to work OK.
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Post by vasia on Mar 2, 2018 13:46:02 GMT
March 2nd, 1900 (?)
Hungary 2k (perf 12x11.5), cancelled in the village of Suranka, present-day Suranyka in Slovakia. The population of Suranka in 1900 was around 336 people.
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Post by butterfly on Mar 2, 2018 18:10:39 GMT
A Singapore stamp(SG106) cancelled March 2, 1971 in Singapore.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 3, 2018 15:53:59 GMT
March 3rd, 1954
Switzerland 30c (Scott 334), cancelled at a locality in St Gallen (Haggenschwil? Morschwil?).
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Post by vasia on Mar 4, 2018 15:03:06 GMT
March 4th, 1911
1 ruble Russian Imperial Arms (Scott 87), cancelled in St. Petersburg.
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Post by butterfly on Mar 4, 2018 16:55:19 GMT
March 4, 1946 from Barmen in Wuppertal, English zone of Germany. Stamp is the perf 14 English printing.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 5, 2018 14:13:07 GMT
March 5th, 1952
United States 15c Airmail stamp, cancelled in Great Falls, Montana.
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Post by butterfly on Mar 6, 2018 13:29:06 GMT
March 6, 1980 from Hobro, most likely. Stamp depicts the Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 6, 2018 16:46:55 GMT
March 6th, 1919
Folded letter-sheet from Pokrov, Vladimir (from the Executive Committee of the local Soviet) to Moscow. The cover was granted Free Post privilege as Government Agency correspondence, as confirmed by the circular, violet, cut-out Pokrovsk District Workers Office seal used on the flap to glue the folded letter. Note on the inside the printed Pokrovsk District detail at left along with various handwritten notations.
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