hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 29, 2018 20:20:22 GMT
October 29th, 1991. FDC of a US postcard (Sc #UX159) commemoating the University of Vermont on its 200th anniversary. 
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stevew
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Post by stevew on Oct 30, 2018 13:06:39 GMT
Two days ago I posted a cover for the polar circumnavigation flight of Pan Am flight #50 which departed San Francisco on Oct 28 1977. The front side of the cover is postmarked on the departure date. This is the back of that cover, postmarked Oct 30, the day flight #50 landed back in San Francisco after its record breaking 2 and a half day flight.  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 30, 2018 19:07:33 GMT
October 30th, 1992. Dutch FDC celebrating 12-and-a-half years of reign of Queen Beatrix. 
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 30, 2018 19:49:53 GMT
October 30th, 1995. Booklet Pane from Sweden, postmarked in Malmö, showing the 1992 issue of the first stamp and most (expensive/rare?) stamp of Sweden. 
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stevew
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Post by stevew on Oct 31, 2018 11:32:53 GMT
October 31. Nothing spooky unfortunately. This is Luxembourg, Scott#74 (1895), cancelled in Echternach on Oct. 31, 1903. It depicts Grand Duke Adolphe. He was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1890 until his death in 1905. 
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vasia
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Post by vasia on Oct 31, 2018 15:02:16 GMT
October 31st, 1922
Inflation-period Soviet cover from Kharkov to Berlin. Franked at 150 rubles with 10k (100X) revalued Imperial arms – the ordinary international rate until 3/11 was 75R. There is a handwritten notation for registration, but no other details, hence the letter was probably sent unregistered, BUT possibly as a double-weight letter.
It is unclear why the letter received an oval postage-due handstamp of Kharkov, which was then withdrawn with the application of a “СНЯАТА” (snyata) cachet (41X7 mm). The envelope had a lithographed printing at left – probably a firm’s logo – that has been plastered over by the stamps.
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 31, 2018 16:03:42 GMT
Scott #416 3 pfennig President von Hindenburg Berlin Germany, October 31, 1934 at 2200hrs (?)  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 31, 2018 21:48:11 GMT
October 31st, 2012. Greenland cover, postmarked from Kangilinnguit, by the Ecopolaris Missions Research Team (and signed by the team members). This was a series of yearly missions to eastern Greenland to monitor the populations of lemmings and their predators to survey the local ecosystem. A French-German team was conducting the field work, and they had the good idea to raise funds for their expeditions by offering (for a small fee of 8 euros) to send their sponsors a letter from Greenland during the expedition, with a decorated envelope and, if possible, a thematically-related stamp. I have a few other such covers I will post down the line too. 
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Post by jamesw on Nov 1, 2018 1:41:16 GMT
Mailed on Halloween night 1959 by my Uncle Harry (I know, you've seen this one before!)  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 1, 2018 7:35:30 GMT
November 1st, 1968. FDC from Canada for the Christmas issue that year featuring an Inuit sculpture. I suspect renden also has this one, so apologies if I am stealing his thunder. This cover is a part of a set my late grand-father received at his medical practice. These were sent by a pharmaceutical company and contained advertisements for their products. Now that's what I call targeted communication! 
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 1, 2018 7:50:19 GMT
November 1st, 2008. Philatelic cover sent to me by the Greifswald Philatelisten Verein, that they made to celebrate 145 years of the town's train station building and the philatelic exhibit they held for the occasion. 
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stevew
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Post by stevew on Nov 1, 2018 13:33:30 GMT
November 1. Cape of Good Hope (now in South Africa), Scott #64 (1902-1904) depicting King Edward VII. Cancelled in Kimberley, Nov 1 1905. It might be 1909, but it looks more like 05, but with the 5 character placed upside down. Sorry about the little bit of yellow fuzz on the stamp. Didn't notice that until I posted it, and I didn't have time to rescan. Will fix later. 
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renden
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Post by renden on Nov 1, 2018 14:56:42 GMT
Christmas - Inuit Soapstone Carving1968, Nov 1 - Scott/Unitrade Canada - 488 (untagged) Block of 4 -"Eskimo Family" FDCRené Xavier, do not have the single stamp FDC.....thanks for putting it up !! 
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renden
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Post by renden on Nov 1, 2018 15:08:46 GMT
Christmas - Candles 1972, Nov 1Sc/Unitrade # 606p(tagged)-609p FDC from my late father's collectionI do have FDCs (Blocks of 4) for all these stampsRené 
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Nov 1, 2018 18:46:29 GMT
October 31st, 1922
Inflation-period Soviet cover from Kharkov to Berlin. Franked at 150 rubles with 10k (100X) revalued Imperial arms – the ordinary international rate until 3/11 was 75R. There is a handwritten notation for registration, but no other details, hence the letter was probably sent unregistered, BUT possibly as a double-weight letter.
Vasia, thank you very much for yet another interesting post. You are the champion of the Postmark Calendar! Am I right in thinking that your post refers to the Kharkov which is located in present-day Ukraine? If so, I was there in January 2006. There is a scientific research institute located in Kharkov, and I was there in an attempt to do business with them at that time. As my visit was in January, I can state that it was the coldest temperature that I ever experienced in my life. It was -40 degrees, the only temperature at which the reading in C and F is the same. Brrrrrrr!! |
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Post by vasia on Nov 2, 2018 14:01:51 GMT
October 31st, 1922
Inflation-period Soviet cover from Kharkov to Berlin. Franked at 150 rubles with 10k (100X) revalued Imperial arms – the ordinary international rate until 3/11 was 75R. There is a handwritten notation for registration, but no other details, hence the letter was probably sent unregistered, BUT possibly as a double-weight letter.
Vasia, thank you very much for yet another interesting post. You are the champion of the Postmark Calendar! Am I right in thinking that your post refers to the Kharkov which is located in present-day Ukraine? If so, I was there in January 2006. There is a scientific research institute located in Kharkov, and I was there in an attempt to do business with them at that time. As my visit was in January, I can state that it was the coldest temperature that I ever experienced in my life. It was -40 degrees, the only temperature at which the reading in C and F is the same. Brrrrrrr!! |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 2, 2018 19:49:54 GMT
November 2nd, 1964. Registered letter mailed from Strasbourg-Neudorf to Magdeburg, East Germany. Registration label from Strasbourg-Neudorf in the bottom left and mention "Recommandee" typed in red in the top left. Good stab to the Germans by having a stamp on the envelope celebrating the 25th anniversary of the French Liberation. 
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 2, 2018 20:09:42 GMT
November 2nd, 1954. Registered air mail cover mailed from San Francisco, CA to Lyngby, Denmark, via the US Army Postal Service. Use of an air mail preprinted envelope of 6c (Sc#UC18), with 3 additional stamps from the 1938 presidential series (50c Taft, 9c Harrison, and 5c Monroe).  
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 3, 2018 8:09:33 GMT
November 3rd, 2010. Postmarked from French post office 29120A (again either Amiens or Paris). Note the use of a mixed currency franking, with older stamps in Francs (for a total of 16Fr40 = 2Euro50) and completed by a strip of 3 Mariannes (The Marianne and Europe design, chosen by President Sarkozy and issued in 2008) at 1Euro35 each. 
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vasia
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Post by vasia on Nov 3, 2018 14:59:50 GMT
November 3rd, 1920
Georgia National Republic 5 ruble "Queen Tamara" (Scott 20) perf.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 4, 2018 8:44:02 GMT
November 4th, 1970. FDC from Canada for Sir Donald Alexander Smith's (Lord Strathcona) 150th birthday, High-Commissioner of Canada to England, one of the founders of the Montreal Royal Victoria Hospital, and instrumental in getting the first trans-Canadian railway completed. Again an advertisement envelope sent by a pharmaceutical company to my late grand-father's medical practice. 
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vasia
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Post by vasia on Nov 4, 2018 12:57:38 GMT
November 4th, 1993
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used as a blank in independent Ukraine from Kivertsi, Volyn to Kiev (5/11 backstamp). The PSE had been originally uprated in 1992 with an octagonal 93k handstamp for a 1 karbovanets rate. By September 1993 (and until December of that year) the domestic letter rate had jumped to 27 karbovanets. Cash payment of the postal rate was indicated by the application of the square "27" handstamp.
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stevew
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Post by stevew on Nov 4, 2018 15:23:36 GMT
November 4. Most of the stamps I have, especially the better ones are from my uncle's collection. He was a lifelong stamp collector. On Nov. 3, 1944 when he was in his early twenties, he wrote a letter home to his parents. The top of which is shown below.  He was serving as a Yeoman in the Captain's office aboard the USS Lexington (CV-16). The next day, the envelope containing the letter was cancelled. The cover is shown below, bearing two Victory stamps (Scott #905).   The next day, Nov. 5, 1944, while serving at his battle station providing ammunition for an anti-aircraft gun on the island superstructure, the Kamikaze plane pictured below hit the Lexington near that set of AA guns. All the other crew members of his gun were killed. He was badly injured, but survived, after a long stay in the hospital. In total, 47 men were killed and 127 wounded. I don't know, but have wondered which his parents received first, this letter (telling them not to worry), or the notification that their son had been seriously wounded in action. He saved the letter and cover, and I know enough from him to connect it to that event. It makes me wonder how many other covers are out there in collections with poignant stories that have become disconnected from the item after passing through multiple hands. 
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vasia
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Post by vasia on Nov 5, 2018 18:00:14 GMT
November 5th, 1993
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used as a blank after the dissolution of the USSR from Minsk, Belarus to St. Petersburg, Russia. Cash payment of the appropriate 20 rubles charge during this inflationary period was indicated by the octagonal "Belarus Post" meter. The PSE commemorates Belarusian musician and conductor Ryhor Shyrma (1892-1978).
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vasia
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Post by vasia on Nov 6, 2018 13:27:23 GMT
November 6th, 1993
Non-denominated PSE used from the small town of Yerky, Cherkassy, Ukraine to Kiev (8/11 backstamp). Cash payment of the 27 karbovanets intercity letter rate was indicated by the rectangular Soviet-era "Paid" (Oplocheno) handstamp.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 6, 2018 19:51:07 GMT
Novembe 6th, 1998. Booklet pane from Sweden celebrating the centennial of Alfred Nobel's will establishing the Nobel prize, issued in 1995. 
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renden
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Post by renden on Nov 7, 2018 17:20:14 GMT
Canada 1994, Nov 7 FDC
Scott # 1540a (se-tenant block 1537-1540) - Second World War - 1944
(on each coming day, another WW II FDC of this series, from Canada , will be posted, i.e. 8-11,9-11,10-11(2 covers))
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 7, 2018 20:04:19 GMT
November 7th, 1973. Canada FDC for the Christmas issue of that year. 
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