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Post by vasia on Jan 9, 2019 15:15:51 GMT
January 9th, 1980
Greece 2x1.50 drs and 1 dr (Scott 1125 and 1329), cancelled in Kifisia, a suburb of Athens.
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Post by alanl on Jan 9, 2019 18:08:18 GMT
Dennilton, South Africa on January the 9th.  |
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stevew
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Post by stevew on Jan 10, 2019 5:08:18 GMT
Jan 10, 1949 (posting this a bit early because I won't be able to tomorrow) FDC of first US airmail postal card, Scott#UXC1a/UPSS SA1c, postmarked Washington, D.C. The United Postal Stationery Society lists three main varieties of this postal card: SA1 (light orange-red), SA1b (orange-red), and SA1c (deep red). The third one (SA1c) earns an elevated CV (vs. the other two). Sometimes the deep red is on all the printed areas, and sometimes it is red at the top and transitions to orange at the bottom. Most of the deep red variation ended up as FDC's and most of those seem to be Artcraft cards like the one shown below. Besides the FDC, I have two mint cards. I've added an image showing the stamps of all three next to each other for comparison (all taken from a single scan of the 3 together). I'm not an expert on these, but I think the one in the upper left is SA1, the one on the upper right may be SA1b, and the one on the bottom (the FDC) is SA1c. It's a bit difficult to scan these and get true colors as the buff background seems to confuse some scanners. The scans below are close, but the deep red is slightly deeper in real life, and the two orange-red stamps are a bit more orangey.  
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Post by stevew on Jan 10, 2019 5:10:55 GMT
Jan 10, 1916 (possibly 1918) Australia, Scott#21, postmarked Melbourne, Victoria. 
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Post by alanl on Jan 10, 2019 19:33:09 GMT
January the 10th in Antwerp, Belgium.  |
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Post by vasia on Jan 11, 2019 7:36:06 GMT
January 11th, 1931
Cover sent from Yalta, Crimea to Moscow. Franked correctly at 10k. Mailed from Soviet actor Oleg Nikolaevich Frelikh to his wife, Soviet actress Olga Dimitrievna Bystritskaya.
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Post by alanl on Jan 11, 2019 18:24:39 GMT
January the 11th in Torrance, California. "California Under Twelve Flags"  |
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Post by vasia on Jan 12, 2019 16:02:45 GMT
January 12th, 1993
7k Soviet PSE used in Belarus after the dissolution of the USSR, mailed from Rechytsa Gomel region to St Petersburg, Russia (backstamp of Leningrad of 18/1). The PSE had been initially uprated, first to 15k with the octagonal "Post USSR" handstamp, then to 1 ruble with the "Taxe Percue" rectangular handstamp. By January 1993, the galloping inflation required an additional 1 ruble Belarus stamp to cover the proper rate.
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Post by alanl on Jan 12, 2019 18:59:08 GMT
Torrance, California on January 12th. Another "California Under Twelve Flags" item.  |
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Post by stevew on Jan 13, 2019 3:16:33 GMT
Jan 12, 196x
Switzerland, Sc#382 (1960-1963), postmarked Lausanne. 
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Post by stevew on Jan 14, 2019 14:49:58 GMT
Jan 14, Belgium Scott#482 King Baudouin (1958-1962), postmarked 1960, possibly Hasselt. 
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Post by stevew on Jan 15, 2019 15:09:50 GMT
Jan 15, 1964 Sweden, Scott #285 (1939), postmarked Västra Frölunda (borough of Göteborg, Västra Götaland). Scott lists 1939 as the issue date, and didn't give a range. That seems rather early for a 1964 postmarked, but I couldn't find a later issue of this orange 1kr stamp. Since this ubiquitous design had a long life in other denominations, I'm guessing this was issued over a long time period as well. 
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Post by alanl on Jan 15, 2019 18:43:43 GMT
Nancy St. Jean, France on January the 15th.  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jan 16, 2019 12:25:10 GMT
16th January (1919) Australia, Sc 60, 1/2-penny emerald, King George V definitive stamp, postmarked on this date in Melbourne, Victoria -- 100 years ago today. Dave ( sherro), I haven't done much posting in this thread in awhile, but when I saw I had this one coming up in the sequence, I wanted to do it in your honour, since I know that you live in Victoria. Now, I need to get to work on your giveaway packet! 
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 16, 2019 13:09:36 GMT
January 16th, 1937. Letter sent from St-Jean-de-Luz (Basses-Pyrénées, now Pyrénées-Atlantiques), France to Tamberg (?), Germany. Funnily enough, the country name is written as "Alemania", in Spanish. Standard practice, I was always taught, is to write the local address in the destination country's language, but the country name in the language of the expedition country. This one is neither. 
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Post by stevew on Jan 16, 2019 14:10:12 GMT
Jan 16, 1968 Turkey, Scott#1683, issued 1965 depicting poet Yahya Kemal Beyatlı. Stamp is, I think, postmarked Karakö (Istanbul). 
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Post by alanl on Jan 16, 2019 18:15:18 GMT
Fort Myers, Florida on January the 16th.  |
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Post by stevew on Jan 17, 2019 14:52:15 GMT
Jan 17, 1968 South Africa, Cape Town. Stamp on left Scott#260 or 273 (can't see watermark). The other stamps commemorate Reformation, and were issued in 1967. Scott #343 depicts Martin Luther, and the other is #344. 
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Post by stevew on Jan 18, 2019 13:02:07 GMT
Jan 18 - a couple Scandinavian stamps 1932 Norway, Scott#126 (issued 1927), postmarked Oslo, Grünerløkken district  1958 Denmark, Scott#339 (issued 1953) depicting King Frederik IX, postmarked Nakskov, a town on the southwest coast of Lolland island. 
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Post by alanl on Jan 18, 2019 18:08:29 GMT
Prince Rupert, British Columbia on January the 18th.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 19, 2019 15:22:22 GMT
January 19Postmarked at Bethesda Main in Chevy Chase, Maryland on this date in 2018. A block of 40 of the 20 cent, perf. 11 Knoxville World's Fair issue (Scott 2006-2009; Apr 29, 1982) and a block of 4 of the 13 cent, perf. 11.75 x 10.5 Eagle and Shield stamp from the Americana issue (Scott 1596; Dec 1, 1975). 
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Post by vasia on Jan 19, 2019 16:44:59 GMT
January 19th, 1929
Czechoslovakia 4k (Scott #121), cancelled in Kosice, present-day Slovakia.
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Post by stevew on Jan 19, 2019 17:46:50 GMT
Jan 19, 1965
Canal Zone cover, Scott#C37 (Issued Aug 15, 1964, and available on a cool FDC foldout map of the Canal Zone with all the stamps of that series, produced I think by the Panama Canal Company, which I'll try to post in the Canal Zone section later today), postmarked Howard Air Force Base, C.Z. The year on the postmark looks like 1985, but the 9 and 6 have nearly closed loops, making them look like 8's. 
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 20, 2019 6:47:37 GMT
January 20th, 1997. Postcard mailed from Hawker Bay, New Zealand, to Canada. 
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Post by vasia on Jan 21, 2019 14:46:41 GMT
January 21st, 1915
Russia 15 kopecks Romanov Tercentenary issue, cancelled in the small town of Dushet (Dusheti), Tiflis guberniya, present-day Georgia.
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Post by alanl on Jan 21, 2019 19:29:59 GMT
The Gold Coast on January the 21st, 1914.  |
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Post by brightonpete on Jan 21, 2019 21:03:38 GMT
This beauty was posted at Echternach on January 21, 1868. It was first issued on September 29, 1859, and is a rather late usage for this stamp. It does look imperforate to me, hopefully not the rouletted version trimmed! With the very straight right & bottom of the stamp, it would appear to me to be the lower right corner of the sheet. According to Michel, 310,500 were printed. Michel: 7 / SG: 11 / Scott: 8 |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 22, 2019 9:38:34 GMT
January 22nd, 1903. Letter mailed within Paris, postmarked from the "Rue Milton" post office. 
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Post by Mick on Jan 23, 2019 1:45:12 GMT
On this day last year an envelope was mailed from Livonia, MI. From the Livonia post office it processed to the Metroplex, MI mail sorting center and thence to the wilds of Oregon.  |
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