Postmark Calendar

Ryan  (from Calgary, Canada)
Since the above post/explanation/directions/teaching is so simple   ....why don't you become our "search expert on names" ??...just kidding !!

René

The town is almost certainly Košice, the 2nd largest city in Slovakia.  I think that's the start of a number after the city name, which probably indicates a post office, often numbered in central European cities to serve as a form of local sorting code (and which would indicate a large enough city to have multiple post offices).  I lived in Nuremberg, W. Germany as an exchange student and my local post office there was #30, so the city portion of my address was D-8500 Nürnberg 30.

Ryan

21st April (1954)

Netherlands, Sc 353, 45-cent scarlet definitive stamp depicting Queen Juliana, postmarked on this date in 1954.  Edit:  Thanks to help from stanley64 and Ryan , it seems that the location that the postmark is from is 'S-Gravenhage-Goudenregenplein.  Many thanks for the help with that one, guys, as I was getting nowhere on my own!

I'd agree, with the small proviso that I think it's actually 'S-Gravenhage (just from seeing a boatload of cancels with that spelling).  The Crossword Nexus regex search I mentioned earlier uses a text file for all article titles in the English Wikipedia.  'S-Gravenhage is the Dutch name (or should I say, one of the Dutch names for that city) and most major old cities in Europe have a bunch of exonyms in the various languages of the continent - in English, it's The Hague.  So, you can expect any English Wikipedia article to be entitled something along the lines of "The Hague" and a search for "*nhage" as seen on that Dutch postmark doesn't find what you want in the English Wikipedia.  Fun trivia task - see how many exonyms you can find for Warsaw!  It seems like virtually every language has its own idea of how they should spell that city's name.  (Warsaw, Warszawa, Varsovia, Varsovie, Varsavia, Warschau, Varshe, Varšava, Varšuva, Varsó, etc etc etc etc.)

As I said, I was familiar enough with the city name to know that part on my own.  Sometimes you can find help on foreign language Wikipedias by going to the correct language but Dutch Wikipedia had nothing that matched when I searched for articles starting with "Goudenr".  So, I went to the Dutch Wikipedia article for The Hague and started snooping around in it.  Ctrl-F is your friend there, but doing a Ctrl-F search for "goudenr" didn't help me at all.  I then went to a Dutch Wikipedia article listing neighbourhoods / districts / communities in the Hague and still found nothing.  Well, maybe it's a street name rather than a district name.  It wasn't until I went to Google Maps and started a search for "The Hague, Goudenr ...." that I was able to find some matches.  "...plein" does look like a better match than "...straat", based on the smudged bit of the postmark which can be read.  Goudenregenplein is a much smaller street, just a little loop around a tiny urban park whereas Goudenregenstraat is a major street, but the local tram stop is named after Goudenregenplein as are a few businesses, so the park does have some notoriety.



Ryan

22nd April (1942)
Kristiansand  (Nearly the south tip of Norway)



Kristiansand.
The Danish king Christian IV visited the location in 1630 and 1635, and on 5 July 1641 formally founded the town of Christianssand on the "sand" on the opposite bank of the Torridalselva (Otra)(River). The town was laid out in Renaissance style on a grid plan (the central section now known as Kvadraturen = The Quarters), and merchants throughout Agder were commanded to move to the new town. In return, they were to receive a variety of trading privileges and a ten-year tax exemption.

April 27

1) FDC Ascencion - Columbia Shuttle - 27 Apr 1981
2) 2 covers Luxembourg 27-4-56 Floralies - Mondorf-les-Bains (spa town SE Lux)

Apr 28

2 Canada FDCs 28  IV  1965 - Floral emblems and Coats of arms of Provinces+ Territories
Sc 423 and 422
(from @stainless's GrandMom collection)

29th April (1920)

East Africa & Uganda Protectorates, Sc 43, 10-cent yellow orange definitive stamp depicting King George V, postmarked in Mombasa, Kenya on this date in 1920, 100 years ago today.

3rd May (1935)

Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika, Sc 50, 20-cent red orange and black pictorial stamp featuring a portrait of King George V flanked by images of Kavirondo cranes and postmarked in Mombasa, Kenya on this date in 1935, 85 years ago today.

Edit:  I found this additional information on Wikipedia:  "Bantu Kavirondo is the former name given to some of the Bantu peoples of western Kenya (e.g., the Luhya and Kisii) under the early colonial regime of British East Africa. Kavirondo Gulf (Winam Gulf) and the surrounding area of 'Kavirondo' derive from the same name. They were designated 'Bantu' Kavirondo in contradistinction to the 'Nilotic Kavirondo' (Luo).  The term should no longer be used."  The Scott Catalogue uses the term "Kavirondo crane" to describe the stamp design, but it seems that the current and correct term should be the Grey Crowned Crane, Golden Crested Crane, East African Crane, or other name variations.

I am a real fan of this K-U-T British Commonwealth pictorial series, which was reprised with the portrait of King George VI as well.  As an added bonus, the larger size stamps make it possible to find a lot more of the used ones with full-strike CDS postmarks.  I have recently been sorting my classic K-U-T, and hope to be able to share some duplicates with my friends Rene (renden ) and Xavier (hrdoktorx ). 

Peter, I looked up an alphabetical list of German town names.  Here is what I could find that might fit:

Sterley
Sternberg
Sternenfels
Sterup

On yours, the 5th letter does look like an N, so I am guessing either Sternberg or Sternenfels.