Postmark Calendar

19th January (2019)

Krychaw, Belarus.


Krychaw is a small city in eastern Belarus, near the border with Russia.

20th January (1898)

Very nice post for today, Peter (brightonpete )!  I really like a classic Canadian stamp with a nice, clear postmark.  So, taking a cue from you, I will also choose a classic from Canada, too, and one from my all-time favourite set....

Canada, Sc 53, 3-cent bright rose Queen Victoria 60th Jubilee commemorative stamp, postmarked on this date in Bromley Line, Ontario in 1898.  In doing a quick web search on Bromley Line, Ontario, references state that Bromley Line is a road in a town called Westmeath.  Is anyone from Ontario able to clarify the status?  It seems a little odd to have a postmark labelled for a road, unless perhaps there was a particular post office on that road, which used that name to identify itself.

Any comments welcome!

January 21

Canada Cover JA 21 , 1883 – Winnipeg to St John, New Brunswick.

Nice Duplex cancel on Unitrade Canada Specialized # 37, red orange,

Perf 11 ½ X 12 – Pos dot LLcorner – Montreal Printing 1874-1887.

Ref: Morris color tables + text (Unitrade cites Montreal Printing as 1873-)


René

In fact I knew it was a 37iii but felt I had bragged enough in my description and Perf info but I accept your nice comment, Robert WERT - René

January 22nd, 1978. Military cover mailed from Djibouti, using a recently overprinted Afars and Issas issue, and mailed to a French military base in Aubagne (near Marseille):

25th January (1892)

Haiti, Sc 36, 7-centime red, definitive stamp depicting the coat of arms "with drooping leaves" (Scott description, design type A9), postmarked on this date in Port-au-Prince in 1892.  I neglected to check the perforations on this stamp prior to scanning, so there is a chance that I have not identified this correctly, but I do not have access to the actual stamp at the moment. I have, therefore, assumed it is the least valuable of the two possible stamps. I will try to remember to check it when I am back in California in April.

Edit: I also want to give a shout-out of thanks to Robert WERT for his earlier post about my Bromley Line, Ontario postmark. Great information, Robert, thank you very much, indeed! I had not really considered that the cancel might have been railroad related, so that news makes me like it all the more. Please accept my apologies for this late acknowledgement of your very fine and prompt response.

To Peter (brightonpete ), I really like your latest post with the stamp from Upper Silesia. Very nice; I love stamps and postmarks from short-lived stamp-issuing entities. Great stuff!

26th January (1923)

Germany, Sc 181, 10-mark carmine and rose definitive stamp with post-horn design, postmarked on this date in 1923 in Weiden, a town in the Oberpfalz.  Many thanks to Gavin (feebletodix) for help in figuring out the correct town identification (see next post).

Here is another for 30 January, three years ago from San Antonio.

 

January 31st, 1996. Pair of Sénégal stamps from the definitive female headdress series. Postmark unfortunately too smudged to be readable.

1th February 
Deutsche Bundespost 1977.
Rhine, Siebengebirge and train 

Michel DE 935
Scott DE 1249
Yvert et Tellier DE 782
Stanley Gibbons DE 1825
AFA number DE 1892

1st February (1937)

Latvia, Sc 136, 2-santims orange yellow definitive stamp depicting the Arms & Stars Design (Scott Type A12), postmarked on this date in 1937(?).  This stamp is further described by Scott as a Type A variety in which the tail of the 2 is upturned at the end.  In Type B, the tail of the 2 is nearly horizontal.