Postmark Calendar

11th June (1928)

Italy, Sc 97, 20-centisimi brown orange definitive stamp depicting King Victor Emmanuel III, Scott Design Type A49, postmarked on this date in 1928 in what appears to be CANNERO, but I am not confident, as the only listing I could find is for a Cannero Riviera in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.  I was hoping that the name at the bottom of the CDS might be able to help, but I can't figure out what it is.

Ludovico (rex) or Ryan or anyone else, can you comment?  Any input on location would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Francesco Paolo Michetti

12 June 1939

Niger YV 41,showing a canoe on River Niger,issued in 1926.
The postmark is from Agadez,known as the gateway to the Sahara desert.The historical centre of Agadez has also been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

12th June (1875)

Austria, Sc 29, 5-kreuzer rose definitive stamp depicting Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef and postmarked on this date in 1875 in the city of Przemyśl, which was part of Austria-Hungary 145 years ago when this stamp was used, but today is located in Poland.  I am not sure whether this item qualifies as a fore-runner or after-runner or something else, but it would seem to be one of those interesting uses due to border changes over the years.  Perhaps Jens (barbu ) or Jon (blaamand ), TSF's resident fore-runner enthusiasts may be able to add to the story!  From Wikipedia:




View of Basilica with Przemyśl city in the background
(Photo Credit: Ferdziu - Own Work)

Nice info norsten...which makes me curious for more  I haven't really started studying the Swedish cancels in detail yet, but I know I will - at which point such info about the types postmarks would be very welcome. May I ask what is your source?

Something I've been wondering about for quite a while, with regards to this topic. It would seem that in order to show daily postmarks, one would have to organize their postmark collection by date. Is this how it is done with most of you? Or do you keep them organized by country, and maybe keep detailed electronic records and cross references in order to find a particular stamp with a particular date?

This is a great thread.I am not very organised and when I first started looking for dated postmarks,it was very hit and miss.I would often find one the day after the calendar date.These can be used next year.....
It has given me the incentive to look through all my stamps and I am slowly sorting them out by month .Right now am trying to organize July postmarks.
Anglobob

14 June 1925

Upper Volta YV 95. Stamps from Upper Senegal and Niger were overprinted in 1922.Postmark is from the town of Fada N,Gourma,Burkina Faso.

It's an excellent question, Richard.  Each member could have his/her own way of doing it.  It seems to me like the two clearest ways are either:  organize the stamps/covers or organize the scans.  I posted this information somewhere before, but I can't remember where. 

Personally, I take the latter option, because I wouldn't normally organize my stamps by postmark date.  I am a WW collector, so I organize my stamps by country, both used and unused together.  I don't want to have to maintain separate stock books just for postmark calendar items.  The only downside of my method is that occasionally, I cannot be 100% sure on the ID of a stamp, as I cannot check a watermark or perf easily from a scan.  Of course, I could check that while I have the stamp in hand, but generally, I don't do it that way, as it is disruptive to my sorting process.

So, as I sort through my accumulation from any given country, I pull out anything that has a readable postmark date.  I take all of those stamps and put them into a black stock sheet and scan the whole sheet at 600dpi.  Then I take the stamps back out of the stock sheet and continue with organizing my collection as I normally would:  first by country, then by catalogue number.

At some other time, when working on my computer, I pull up the file of the scanned sheet of postmarked stamps, and I edit the scanned sheets into individual images, and organize the individual images into file folders for the 12 months of the year.  I create file names for the individual scans that will then be in sequence by date within each monthly folder.  Then I have the ability to check my file each day to see if I have anything for the current date.  I know that some members like Steve (tomiseksj ) mentioned that he deletes the image file from the folder after he has posted it so that he doesn't use it again in the thread.  I also generally try to follow that practice, but occasionally I re-post something that I had previously posted, especially if it didn't seem to get much interest the first time around.

It takes some time to set this up to start, but once you have a system in place, organizing the electronic image files is pretty straightforward.  Then you can deal with the stamps in whatever way you wish, and not be constrained by trying to keep them in order by date.