Postmark Calendar

Thank you very much for your post, Stan (stainlessb).  What is the listing for Y&T 328?  Another site is showing that as the catalogue number for this stamp.

Thanks, Chris

Thanks, Stan (stainlessb). You are quite right. Definitely "F" and not "NF". Your catalogue number and description seem to fit. The only problem is the date, as my stamp seems to be script cancelled in 1962, which is not possible if the stamp was issued in 1964.

Perhaps I have got the script date wrong. Just looked at it again, though, and it looks like a 2 to me.

The line under the second digit of the year looks just like that, a line. I doubt it is a part of the number as it looks too distinct to me.
I'd hazard a guess of 1964 or maybe 1967.

Thanks Stan, I find it interesting that the 1924 design was still in use forty years later, and I shuold have read the date

13th april
Switzerland 'Tell knabe'


The Queen taking a flight to Singapore  

The crappy spray cancel of the month award goes to this one from Portland, 16 April 2012

18th April (1930)

Hong Kong, Sc 133, 4-cent rose red definitive stamp depicting King George V postmarked in the colony on this date in 1930, 90 years ago today.

Dedication:  I would like to make today's post in honor of departed TSF Member Clive (Anping), who first inspired my stronger interest in HK stamps, and to current members Michael (Londonbus1) from whom this stamp probably came, and Doe, whose current interest in HK moved me to get serious about my own HK collection and get all of it sorted and organized! 

18 april ?

Someone posted a letter in All?nda??? on 18 april early in the morning. King George V was trusted to bring the letter to it's destination. 

Michel GB 128X
Scott GB 160
Yvert et Tellier GB 140
Stanley Gibbons GB 357
AFA number GB 128

In Lausanne, Switzerland on the same date, but several years later, a red cross stamp was used to send something to someone in the evening. Was it a letter, what was written in it? We will newer know. 

But we know this is: 
Michel CH 772
Scott CH 426
Yvert et Tellier CH 709
Stanley Gibbons CH 674
AFA number CH 768
Zumstein CH 399

Then in Sweden 18 april 1966 someone ordered this first day cancellation on the whole block, maybe to have in his or hers collection. There it stayed several years until I got it.

Facit SE HA16 AR

If you think of it, all the (used) stamps we have in our collection have brought messages, good or bad.






That is a whole lot of messages ....... 

19 April 2012, Budapest. Cover sent to Israel.



Remembered to post this one with three hours to spare.