stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on Apr 26, 2019 15:31:33 GMT
April 26, 1978 Panama Canal Zone, Scott#163 depicting the dredge Cascadas, postmarked Balboa, C.Z. This stamp is a definitive, although like a few of the CZ definitives, it's size is like that of a commemorative.  Below are two frame grabs from an 8mm film my granddad made in the 1950's of a transit through the canal. He was an employee working at the Pedro Miguel locks at the time. They show the Cascadas at work near some widening being done in the Culebra Cut.  
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tobben63
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What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Apr 26, 2019 20:51:39 GMT
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 27, 2019 5:50:25 GMT
April 27th, 1935. German issue for that year's "Imperial Professional Competition" (my translation for "Reichsberufwettkampf"), postmarked from Hopp (?). 
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Apr 27, 2019 17:07:24 GMT
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 29, 2019 19:06:05 GMT
April 29th, 1922. Upper Silesia. Can't quite read the name of the town on the postmark, though. 
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Apr 29, 2019 20:51:17 GMT
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Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on Apr 30, 2019 0:22:21 GMT
Here is one for this day (29 April) in 1992, postmarked in Porte Pagado, Chile and sent to Natania, Israel.  The stamp is Scott 982, released 4 November 1992. Looks like the sender had some leftover Christmas stamps to use up. |
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vasia
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Post by vasia on Apr 30, 2019 15:53:40 GMT
April 30th, 1927
The first (non-denominated) Soviet postal card, issued December 1923 "exclusively for domestic use", cancelled on POSHT. 177 VAG. (cds of TPO Voronezh-Kiev postal wagon) and addressed to Stalino (“bilingual” Russian/Ukrainian cancellation of 2/5). Stalino is present-day Donetsk. The TPO cds is a rare type of Ukrainian PW dated cancelers without the names of the route terminals, applied at the end of the 1920’s on some routes. The card is the message half of a 3+3k double card.
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Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on May 1, 2019 0:38:56 GMT
I have a couple for today's date (30 April). The first postmark will probably be familiar with many of you (Bellefonte, PA).  The other is from Stockton, CA, on this date in 1968.  Back in 1968 you could mail a letter for 6c, as well as get a shave and a haircut for two bits. |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on May 1, 2019 3:18:20 GMT
1.st of May Switzerland, Helvetia. Helvetia statue. Michel CH 114 Stamp Number CH 164 Yvert et Tellier CH 131 Stanley Gibbons CH 250 AFA number CH 128 Zumstein CH 120  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 1, 2019 9:10:31 GMT
May 1st, 1934. German issue from the 1933 semi-postal series on Wagnerian opera, postmarked from Bad Peterstal. 
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 1, 2019 15:58:38 GMT
May 1, 1968 Portugal, Scott#762, 1020, 764 (left to right), postmarked Areeiro, Lisbon.  South Africa, Scott# 340 & 345, postmarked Cape Town. 
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vasia
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Post by vasia on May 1, 2019 16:11:36 GMT
May 1st, 1902
5 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled at a location in Liflyandskaya gub. (present-day Latvia).
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kosmo
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Post by kosmo on May 1, 2019 17:47:42 GMT
May 1st, 1902
5 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled at a location in Liflyandskaya gub. (present-day Latvia).
Felinski County (Lett. Viljandi apriņķis; ect. Fellinsche Kreis) — the administrative unit of Livland province of the Russian Empire, then Estonia, which existed in 1745-1920. The center is the town of Fallin. |
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vasia
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Post by vasia on May 2, 2019 5:18:06 GMT
Felinski County (Lett. Viljandi apriņķis; ect. Fellinsche Kreis) — the administrative unit of Livland province of the Russian Empire, then Estonia, which existed in 1745-1920. The center is the town of Fallin. |
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Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on May 3, 2019 0:51:55 GMT
On the 2nd of May in 2017, a kind gentleman in Durham, Maine mailed me a letter. It was processed by the good old Southern ME P&DC.  |
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 3, 2019 3:44:38 GMT
May 5, 1945 USA, Scott#C25 airmail, postmarked US Army Postal Service. This was sent to my uncle from a high school buddy while my uncle was recovering from serious injuries sustained on Nov 5, 1944 when a kamikaze struck the USS Lexington (CV16). 
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 3, 2019 3:48:30 GMT
May 2, 1968 South Africa, Scott# 317, 319, and 340 (left to right). Postmarked Cape Town. 
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 3, 2019 12:52:44 GMT
May 3, 1968 South Africa, Scott#341 top and a couple #340 bottom, postmarked Cape Town. 
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 3, 2019 13:12:52 GMT
May 3, 1968 Venezuela, Scott#C978 & C940, postmarked Chacao, Caracas. 
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 3, 2019 13:20:53 GMT
May 3, 1942 Newfoundland, Scott#255. I'm not sure about this one. I suppose this is a pen cancel (not something I have much knowledge of). And I'm not sure if it's "May / 3 / 42" or "May 13 / 42". 
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renden
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Post by renden on May 3, 2019 14:23:15 GMT
stevew Steve Image as it is processed by retroreveal.org shows clearer date 
May 13 42
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vasia
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Post by vasia on May 3, 2019 16:38:13 GMT
May 3rd, 1914
20 kopecks Romanov tercentenary stamp. cancelled in Mitava (Mitau, present-day Jelgava in Latvia).
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 4, 2019 11:17:38 GMT
May 4th, 1970. West Berlin charity semi-postal stamp from the 1968 issue: 
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 4, 2019 14:43:03 GMT
May 4, 1939 Norway, Scott# O14a, postmarked Sortland, Nordland (way up on the northwest coast of Norway). 
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Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on May 4, 2019 17:20:54 GMT
Here is one from 4 May 1966, postmarked in Berkeley, CA. Unfortunately this was mailed a good four years before abctoo started working for the Berkeley post office, so he did not handle this one.  |
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tomiseksj
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Posts: 6,385
What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on May 4, 2019 22:46:31 GMT
May 4Canada issued this 20 cent, perf. 11, henna brown (Scott color) special delivery stamp on September 2, 1930 (Scott E4). The stamp was postmarked somewhere in British Columbia on this date in 1932. 
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on May 5, 2019 9:07:14 GMT
May 5
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 5, 2019 11:25:49 GMT
May 5th, 1969. Pair of West German stamps from the 50 years of air mail traffic in Germany issue, from the envelope of stamps my colleague gave me on Friday. 
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stevew
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What I collect: stamps, covers, postal cards from Canal Zone, early USA, Channel Islands
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Post by stevew on May 5, 2019 15:34:19 GMT
May 5, 1919 Austria, Scott#159 (I think), postmarked Lienz, Tyrol. 
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