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Post by tomiseksj on Mar 3, 2014 13:32:11 GMT
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Post by vasia on Mar 3, 2014 14:01:06 GMT
March 3, 1905
Postal card from BATUM ZHELEZNODOR P.O (Batum Railway post office - on the Black Sea) to Bjorneborg-Pori on the west coast of Finland (then part of the Russian Empire). The trilingual receiver cds of 24/3 gives a false impression of a very extended travel time for this card. Actually, there are 2 different calendars being used: the card is postmarked at origin as per the Julian calendar and at destination as per the Gregorian calendar - the date of dispatch as per the Gregorian calendar is March 16th.
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Post by alanl on Mar 3, 2014 23:31:14 GMT
For March 3rd we have two towns in Kent, England...Bromley and Medway & Maidstone. Bromley became part of London in 1965.  |
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Post by I.L.S. on Mar 4, 2014 22:25:35 GMT
Neat stuff! Thank you very much tomiseksj!! I couldn't find it mentioned anywhere I looked! |
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Post by alanl on Mar 4, 2014 23:40:06 GMT
For March the 4th...my avatar...New Westminster, British Columbia.  |
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Post by jamesw on Mar 5, 2014 1:43:20 GMT
Here's a boring one for March 4, a 1965 airmail posted in Fort Scott Kansas. But it allows me to segue in and post my March 5 entry early, 1932, from Washington DC to Ottawa with a Washington bicentennial 1¢ stamp on a bicentennial 2¢ stamped envelope.   |
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Post by vasia on Mar 5, 2014 16:22:45 GMT
March 5, 1929
Cover from ПАВЛОВО НА ОКЕ (i.e Pavlovo on the Oka river, in Nizhny Novgorod oblast) to Montreal, 21/3 and redirected to Syracuse, NY, 23/3/1929. Franked correctly at 28k with “large head” definitives. The non-standard (provisional) registration label is perfed on 2 sides, and is quite minimal bearing only a pre-printed registration #, no placename. There is a “registered” handstamp added en route, as well as a re-directing control number on a glued-on piece of paper.
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Post by alanl on Mar 5, 2014 23:52:01 GMT
It`s March the 5th in St. John`s Wood(London) and Stratford-Upon-Avon.  |
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Post by alanl on Mar 6, 2014 23:51:14 GMT
Two English cancels for March 6th. Harlow, Essex and Harrow, a borough of London.  |
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Mar 7, 2014 3:26:28 GMT
March 6
Canceled this date in 2011 at the Springfield Stamp Club's Springpex 2011. 
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Post by jamesw on Mar 8, 2014 5:18:14 GMT
March 7 1949 from Oberlin Ohio to Sarasota Florida, sporting a US SC#940. The sender is Eva S. Stanton (1930-2011) who was staff attorney for the Oregon Legislative Council, judicial staff attorney for the California Court of Appeal and an artist. The hair is extra...  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Mar 8, 2014 23:44:26 GMT
March 8From Louisville, Kentucky in 1893 with a 2c Columbian (Scott 231). 
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Post by alanl on Mar 8, 2014 23:58:17 GMT
For March 8, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.  |
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Post by rod222 on Mar 9, 2014 22:05:31 GMT
Lovely Postcard Vasia,
are you able to give us a close up of, and translate, the Diamond Icon?
Thanks.
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Post by alanl on Mar 9, 2014 23:50:24 GMT
It`s March 9th in Colfontaine, Belgium and Lindern, Norway.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 10, 2014 6:46:52 GMT
Lovely Postcard Vasia, are you able to give us a close up of, and translate, the Diamond Icon? Thanks. Rod, here is a close-up. It translates roughly to "Company Fast Printers A.A.Levenson Moscow". Notice that the card also has the letterhead of another firm: "Albert Gubner, Moscow". Gubner was an industrialist, but I have not been able to find more info.  |
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Post by rod222 on Mar 10, 2014 10:12:09 GMT
Thanks. Levenson was easy to locate, quite well known, but I was more interested in the image, beautifully art deco, I was aware that Russian Graphic Arts certainly had some influence from Art Deco, but this seemed more a Southern European Influence (I was hoping Czech) but there is no info on cards Levenson produced, that I can see, other than the Nursing focussed items from the war. Being the card was letterheaded, perhaps this was a specialised print job for the industrialist.   |
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Post by rod222 on Mar 10, 2014 10:14:34 GMT
PS: That dress the young lass is wearing is just beautiful.
I was also intrigued by the "Grand Prix", a word that has been sullied of late, by motor racing,
but originally meant "Great Prize"
I cannot find a link between graphic arts and "Grand prix"
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Post by rod222 on Mar 10, 2014 10:25:13 GMT
A metal charger? (whatever that is) from Gubner. (still with Art Nouveau, Art deco feel) Gubner was a French Industrialist.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 10, 2014 12:25:11 GMT
Very nice detective work, Rod!
In the Russian section of the Wikipedia, I found some additional information on the Albert Gubner company. It was one of the largest textile factories of the Russian Empire, founded in 1871 by this French industrialist. The products of the firm received a number of national and international awards, including the Grand Award - "Grand Prix" in Paris in 1900. The company was nationalized in 1918, so this postcard, used in 1920, was one that had remained in private hands after that date.
For the full article, you can search in Wikipedia under the following:
Товарищество мануфактур Альберта Гюбнера
and use Google translate for a quick translation.
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Post by I.L.S. on Mar 10, 2014 12:43:30 GMT
PS: That dress the young lass is wearing is just beautiful. I was also intrigued by the "Grand Prix", a word that has been sullied of late, by motor racing, but originally meant "Great Prize" I cannot find a link between graphic arts and "Grand prix"
Rod think architecture? or Artists cooperative or competition...just a quick thought. Hope it pans out in your specific context for you. use this search query ["graphic arts"+"Grand prix"] |
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Post by rod222 on Mar 10, 2014 14:40:24 GMT
Very nice detective work, Rod! In the Russian section of the Wikipedia, I found some additional information on the Albert Gubner company. It was one of the largest textile factories of the Russian Empire, founded in 1871 by this French industrialist. The products of the firm received a number of national and international awards, including the Grand Award - "Grand Prix" in Paris in 1900. The company was nationalized in 1918, so this postcard, used in 1920, was one that had remained in private hands after that date. For the full article, you can search in Wikipedia under the following: Товарищество мануфактур Альберта Гюбнера and use Google translate for a quick translation. Well that ended nicely, all queries solved  the "Grand Prix" must be similar to the awards that are awarded to wines etc. I saw a recent image of the textile factory, which had changed in the interim, to silk production, evidencing perhaps the change in fashion / disposable income of the populace. Thanks for your input Jeff. |
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Post by rod222 on Mar 10, 2014 15:08:07 GMT
Seems "Grand Prix" in Exposition terms, is an award higher than the Gold Medal, ergo "the special prize"
yet in Films, Grand Prix can be subordinate award to the best film.
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Post by alanl on Mar 10, 2014 22:43:39 GMT
Two English towns for March 10, Bexhill-on-Sea and Hartlepool.  |
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the "Grand Prix" must be similar to the awards that are awarded to wines etc.