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Post by rod222 on Mar 10, 2014 23:06:14 GMT
I must be a little slow in the uptake  I woke up this morning, and it just occurred to me, that beautiful dress on the Grand Prix card, was obviously privately printed by Gubner, to provide wide ranging promotion of his textiles, that dress was probably part of the winning collection in Paris in 1900 There exists probably a set of cards from him with his fabulous designs and prints that he chose to enter in the Paris expo. |
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Post by jamesw on Mar 11, 2014 3:00:54 GMT
March 10, 1874. Sent to Wakefield N.H. merchant Frank D. Sawyer  |
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Post by jamesw on Mar 11, 2014 3:11:03 GMT
And for something completely different. Homemade FDC March 10 1961, SC#392 Native poetess Pauline Johnson, postmarked Lachine PQ (Quebec).  |
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Post by Zuzu on Mar 11, 2014 18:07:48 GMT
vasia, no clue about the German postmark, but that is a beautiful card.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Mar 12, 2014 4:57:09 GMT
March 11, 1898
Postcard from Samarkand, Зеравш.(анский) ок.(руг), Turkestan (present-day Uzbekistan) to Berlin, interesting receiver cancel of April 4th, through Moscow, 21/3/1898. Franked correctly at 4k. Nice "souvenir du Turkestan" images on front of card. Does anyone what this German postmark was meant for?
Vasia, send a private message to Postmaster GS, he is the go-to man, for Germany. You can find his email from "members" log Good luck. |
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Post by vasia on Mar 12, 2014 16:31:04 GMT
March 12, 1993
A totally different angle today - postal history from the post-Soviet Union era. The first 2-3 years after 1991 were years of intense inflation and, while new stamps were being issued by the emerging countries / ex-Republics of the USSR, the denominations often did not catch up with the changing rates or the stamps did not reach all locations across the country. Therefore, a lot of provisional frankings were used, including overprints on Soviet stamps, meter frankings, either handstamped or on pieces of paper, manuscript frankings, etc.:
7k postal stationery envelope from Nikolaev, Ukraine to Minsk, Belarus (17/3). In Nikolaev Soviet PSE's were sold at the post-office at the prevailing domestic letter rate and could be used with no additional franking for this purpose - so the 7k envelope above had a franking value of 3 karbovanets (the domestic rate from 6/1/1993). At this point in time, the letter rate from Ukraine to the CIS (the short-lived Commonwealth of Independent States) countries was 15 karbovanets. To supplement the 3 Krb "franking" of the envelope, a 14 Krb provisional is pasted on the cover: a rectangular piece of paper, printed by photocopier and sold over the counter.
The cover is overfranked by 2 Krb - no 12 Krb provisional had been issued.
Notice that both dispatch and receiver postmarks still carry the CCCP (USSR) indication, more than 2 years after its break-up.
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Post by alanl on Mar 12, 2014 22:49:55 GMT
On March 12th we have Hertogenbosch, Nederland and Stratford, England.  |
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Post by I.L.S. on Mar 13, 2014 5:30:29 GMT
March 10, 1874. Sent to Wakefield N.H. merchant Frank D. Sawyer Well all I could come up with was this -the 1880 Census says that there was a Frank D. Sawyer located in Wakefield (Carroll County) in NH. Frank D. Sawyer - Occupation: Retail Grocer, age 34 Wife: May Sawyer, age 34 Son: Luther E. Sawyer age 2 |
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Post by vasia on Mar 13, 2014 15:25:28 GMT
March 13, 1914
2 ruble stamp from the set for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, cancelled in Lodz Central (P.O), Petrokovskaya guberniya, then Russian Poland.
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Post by alanl on Mar 13, 2014 22:51:37 GMT
A pair of boroughs for March 13th. Bromma(Stockholm), Sweden and Tottenham(London), England.  |
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Post by Mick on Mar 14, 2014 0:14:38 GMT
That's one lovely Tottenham postmark.
Not auspicious for Tottenham Hotspur FC though. They lost 3 - 1 to Benfica today.
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Post by alanl on Mar 14, 2014 22:59:24 GMT
For March the 14th, Zwolle, Netherlands. Take a look: same town, same date and even the same time but different cancels!  |
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Post by jamesw on Mar 15, 2014 2:42:03 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Mar 15, 2014 9:03:07 GMT
I beg to differ Vasia  4,000 R. + the franking on the postal card. |
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Post by Ryan on Mar 15, 2014 22:20:33 GMT
March 11, 1898
... Does anyone what this German postmark was meant for?
My German is passable but limited, not fluent. This is known as a "Bestellstempel" but I'm at a loss to give a proper translation for that (help, PostmasterGS!) - German verbs are a muddle and trying to nail down exactly what it means based on context is beyond my skills. I know that these cancellations are used sometimes as receiver marks and from what I can gather there were detailed timetables of in- and out-times for each post office based on destination. There's an astounding document available on Google Books, the 1837 timetable of delivery and collection times in Berlin for all Prussian locations and the "most important foreign locations". But not only were these cancellations used as arrival stamps, they were also used (perhaps their primary usage?) for each letter delivery shift, of which there could be as many as 12 per day for the busy post offices. Post office 61 was located at Tempelhofer Ufer 1, about 1 Km south of what we now know as Checkpoint Charlie. The time of day noted on your cancellation is 6 1/4 - 7 N., or 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM. Here are other examples of the Postamt 61 Bestellstempel. Ryan |
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Post by alanl on Mar 15, 2014 22:50:59 GMT
In Drumbo, Ontario it`s March 15, 1971.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 16, 2014 6:25:06 GMT
Thank you, Ryan, for the info on the Berlin postmark.  |
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Post by Ryan on Mar 16, 2014 20:43:20 GMT
The letter is addressed to com(rade). I. Stalin, Secretary of the VKP(b) in the Kremlin.
Wow, a letter to Uncle Joe, as he was nicknamed by the Allies. Or "Brilliant Genius of Humanity" or "Gardener of Human Happiness", names favoured in the USSR among others according to the Wikipedia article. I hadn't heard of such grandiose nicknames before, they clearly didn't survive the destalinization that followed his rule. It's hard to picture Stalin as a gardener of human happiness, but I can imagine him preening his moustache, though ... How times change. Ryan |
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Post by alanl on Mar 16, 2014 22:45:11 GMT
March 16th in Nottingham, England.  |
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Post by alanl on Mar 17, 2014 22:48:46 GMT
For March 17th here`s Annan, Scotland and it`s GREEN.  |
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Post by alanl on Mar 18, 2014 22:58:24 GMT
March 18th in Vancouver, British Columbia.  |
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Post by alanl on Mar 19, 2014 22:47:42 GMT
Sheffield, England on March 19th. The MLO stands for `Mechanized Letter Office`.  |
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Post by vasia on Mar 20, 2014 15:00:30 GMT
March 20, 1919
US 2-cent postal stationery envelope sent on March 25th, 1918 (notice inverted date in postmark) from Millis, Mass and addressed to a relative of the sender at “General Delivery” in Kislovodsk, in the North Caucasus. Registered with negative seal handstamp and franked at 15c with the addition of 10c + 3c Presidential series (stamps cancelled by crayon). By handwritten notation, the letter is routed “Via Pacific or Archangel”. An indistinct Seattle transit of March 30th suggests that it was routed via the Pacific coast and on to the Transsiberian.
Apparently due to the ongoing civil war, the cover only reached its destination on March 20th, 1919, almost a year after posting! The letter was then forwarded to Stavropol, only 210 km north in the same region, where it was backstamped on May 16th. The red crayon on the front states: “Return without letter” – conceivably an indication of censor intervention. Also a US censor resealing label with a censor # handstamp applied on it.
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Post by alanl on Mar 20, 2014 22:54:20 GMT
March 20th in Stonehaven, Scotland and Twickenham, London, England.  |
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