anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Mar 21, 2023 12:34:19 GMT
21 March 1963 GB SG 634 635.Freedom from Hunger issue. Postmarked on the day of issue at Birmingham. 60 years ago, I went to the main post office in Birmingham to get a first day of issue cancellation. There used to be a separate postbox where you could post your letter and receive a special cancellation. Unfortunately, I was young and not too bright so these were posted in the regular post box. After this, I found a dealer who provided first day covers with appropriate cancellations. I sold my cover collection years ago but these covers survived and now serve as a reminder of my youthful innocence...or ineptitude. Sad to say also that my handwriting hasn't improved over the years.....   |
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drblade
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Post by drblade on Mar 21, 2023 14:21:09 GMT
21 March 1963 GB SG 634 635.Freedom from Hunger issue. Postmarked on the day of issue at Birmingham. 60 years ago, I went to the main post office in Birmingham to get a first day of issue cancellation. There used to be a separate postbox where you could post your letter and receive a special cancellation. Unfortunately, I was young and not too bright so these were posted in the regular post box. After this, I found a dealer who provided first day covers with appropriate cancellations. I sold my cover collection years ago but these covers survived and now serve as a reminder of my youthful innocence...or ineptitude. Sad to say also that my handwriting hasn't improved over the years..... (See previous post for images.) Are the stamps the phosphor versions or the ordinary. I remember when these & the other phosphor versions started to be issued. I missed a lot of the phosphor versions at the time due to lack of knowledge about them being issued. |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Mar 21, 2023 14:27:24 GMT
drblade These were the normal stamps.I doubt very much if I was aware of phosphor versions at that time.If I couldn,t tell the difference between the postboxes I am sure I couldn,t see the phosphor versions...... 
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drblade
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Post by drblade on Mar 21, 2023 14:33:21 GMT
drblade These were the normal stamps.I doubt very much if I was aware of phosphor versions at that time.If I couldn,t tell the difference between the postboxes I am sure I couldn,t see the phosphor versions...... I was the same, usually with stamp information. By the way Gibbons catalogue value for the ordinary 1st day cover is £25 & phosphor £40 at the moment. anglobob |
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wakeybluenose
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Post by wakeybluenose on Mar 21, 2023 14:39:09 GMT
Are the stamps the phosphor versions or the ordinary. I remember when these & the other phosphor versions started to be issued. I missed a lot of the phosphor versions at the time due to lack of knowledge about them being issued. I believe the phosphor versions were only issued from Southampton as a trial, so if these were bought in Brum they would be the ordinary ones. |
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gbcc
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Post by gbcc on Mar 22, 2023 5:53:13 GMT
Postmark/Cover of the Day 22 March 2011 Keep Wildlife In The Wild Born Free Foundation Horsham W Sussex Geoff (GBCC) www.gbcovercollector.co.uk |
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drblade
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Post by drblade on Mar 22, 2023 9:57:51 GMT
A neat first day of issue cover United Nations Centenary, postmarked New York 22nd March 1974. The design to the left of the cover is embossed & shows through inside the cover in reverse.  |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Mar 22, 2023 10:19:29 GMT
22 March Austria Sc 14,issued in 1861.Postmarked at Ingrowitz,now known as Jimramov in the Czech Republic.  22 March 1877 Austria Sc34 ,issued in 1876.Postmarked at the small village of Zetoraz,now Cetoraz in the Czech Republic.  22 March 1910 Austria Sc122,issued in 1908 and with a Prag 2 postmark.  |
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Post by peter on Mar 22, 2023 11:10:47 GMT
22 March 1934 A rear Bullawayo cds for March 22, 1934, shows the date this Royal Tour cover was processed for its onward journey to Howden, East Yorkshire. The cover is franked with a 1931 Southern Rhodesia 10d KGV stamp, tied with the Royal Tour postmarker for March 21. On March 21, 1934, at 12.15 pm, the Royal Train carrying Prince George on his tour of Southern Africa, arrived in Bulawayo, marking the end of South African Railways involvement. From this point, the Rhodesia Railways and Post Office took over operations. |
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Mick
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Post by Mick on Mar 23, 2023 2:22:38 GMT
In honor of new member bwm , who also lives in Oregon and also likes postmarks, here is one from Portland for 22 March 2013. Not the most exciting postmark ever, but what the heck.  us.portland.2013.03.22 by Mick Taylor, on Flickr PORTLAND OR 970 / 22 MAR 2013 PM 3 L |
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eggdog
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What I collect: Mostly eastern and southeastern Europe, some Central America, postally used Africa - and Norway because everybody should collect someplace that doesn't have civil wars.
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Post by eggdog on Mar 23, 2023 3:24:33 GMT
Dapaong, Togo, eleven years ago today.  Dapaong is in the northwest corner of this small, stovepipe-shaped republic; it's about 350 miles north of the capital, Lomé. The CIA World Factbook tells me that despite its modest size, Togo has six distinct climate zones, from savanna in Dapaong - getting close to the ever-expanding Sahara there - to hardcore tropical along the coast, and that's without having mountain ranges or anything like that to break things up. The CIA also tells me that the early form of the name, Togodo, means "on the other side of the river". That was apparently the name some early settlers gave to where they settled (it's now called Togoville), and in a slightly shortened version it gradually became the name of the place between Ghana and Benin. I was in a rest stop on the interstate going through southwestern Connecticut and heard a couple of people who were working in a convenience store speaking in a language I couldn't recognize. I asked them, "Where are you guys from?" and they said, "Togo", and then they asked me if I'd ever been to Africa. I said, "No, but I'd like to," and they said when I go I should check out Togo. I never found out exactly what language it was (there are three or four major ones and who knows how many more local ones), but they were likeable people. I haven't talked about stamps much here because I don't know much about Togolese stamps. Most of the ones I've seen have been topicals of limited interest to me, and if I've ever seen half a dozen with "real" postmarks, that's a lot. But this one gets straight to the point, and I like it. |
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gbcc
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Post by gbcc on Mar 23, 2023 5:36:35 GMT
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Post by peter on Mar 23, 2023 6:36:26 GMT
23 March 1960 / 1968 In Sydney, on Machine 1 (PAID), we have HELP N.S.W. SOCIETY CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S APPEAL ... While, on the other machines (machine 8 & 9 pictured), we have USE ELECTRICITY SAFELY INSTALL MORE POWER POINTS ... Eight years later to the day, we are still being advised to install more power points... |
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drblade
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Post by drblade on Mar 23, 2023 8:59:21 GMT
Featuring a nicely designed se-tenant pair of stamps, this first day of issue cover from Greece, celebrates the centenary of the first telephone transmission. (1876 - 1976).  |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Mar 23, 2023 10:39:29 GMT
23 March 1905 Austria Sc 89,issued in 1905.Postmarked at Stankau,now Stankov in the Czech Republic.  23 March 1911 Belgium Sc B2,issued in 1910 and with a postmark from Antwerp.  23 March 2015 Denmark Sc 891.Queen Margrethe II Series 3,issued in 1992 and with a postmark from Rodovre.  |
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Post by peter on Mar 23, 2023 13:07:50 GMT
23 March 1944 Here's an Australian 2d mauve KGVI postcard, with a Cremorne machine cancel for March 23, 1944; censored in district 2 (NSW); and uprated with a 1942 ½d Roo (cancelled separately with a handstand) to pay the foreign postcard rate. The postcard bears a message from "D C Hughes" regarding philatelic matters. "David C Hughes" (b.1880) was a Methodist Minister who lived at 8 Reynolds St, Cremorne, during this period. Interestingly, Hughes dates the postcard 23.3.43, but the cancellation is 23 MCH 1944.
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renden
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Post by renden on Mar 23, 2023 16:13:47 GMT
Interesting LUXEMBOURG cover dated 22/23 March 1958 with stamps (Sc. 326,327,328) of 2f (Prince Henry), 4f (Princess Marie-Astrid) and 3f (Children's clinic) -Philatelic Exposition WASSERBILLIG Cover received for late Peter (brightonpete).  |
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gbcc
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Post by gbcc on Mar 24, 2023 7:10:57 GMT
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Post by peter on Mar 24, 2023 9:02:40 GMT
24 March 1863 This March 24, 1863 cover is addressed to the Unitarian minister, historian and hymnologist, Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, Boston. Rev. Foote was born in Salem, Mass. in 1838; the son of Caleb Foote, publisher and editor of the Salem Gazette. Henry attended Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, becoming minister of King's Chapel in Boston from 1861 until his death in 1889. On July 9, 1863 (same year as this cover), he married Frances Anne Eliot (1838-96), daughter of former U.S. politician and 7th Mayor of Boston, Samuel Atkins Eliot, who like Rev. Foote was a graduate of Harvard University (1817) and Harvard Divinity School (1820). For his records, Rev. Foote annotated this cover “Dr. Walker (D.A.W.'s memoir)", providing us, in the absence of the enclosure itself, with knowledge of who sent it and why. Dr. Walker was James Walker (1794-1874), a graduate of Harvard (1814) and the Harvard Divinity School (1817), who, in the year of Rev. Foote’s birth, 1838, was appointed Harvard's Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, a position he held until he was elected president of the college in 1853. While at Harvard, the young Henry Foote and Dr. Walker become close friends. This was no doubt an extension of the friendship that had existed between Dr. Walker and Foote's maternal grandfather, the American statesman, lawyer, and Judge of Probate in Essex County, Massachusetts, Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861). When Dr. Walker retired as President of Harvard College in 1860, he devoted himself to writing; completing several works, including "Memoir of Hon. Daniel Appleton White”, published the same year as this cover - 1863. The letter this cover once enclosed was likely regarding the research, writing or publication of that memoir.
Left: Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, Right: Dr. James Walker
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Mar 24, 2023 12:14:16 GMT
24 March 1883 Austria Sc 34,issued in 1874.Postmarked at Tabor,now in the Czech Republic.  24 March 1893 Austria Sc 60,issued in 1890.Postmarked at Ala,now in Trentino NE Italy.Prior to WW1,this was an important border town between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  24 March 1903 Belgium Sc60,issued in 1893.Postmarked at Gand,also known as Ghent.  |
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eggdog
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Post by eggdog on Mar 25, 2023 3:27:07 GMT
Rundu, Namibia, 22 years ago today, on stamps that were already four years old.  Rundu is on the banks of the Okavango River; on the other side of the river is Angola, where they start calling it the Cubango River. It's near to where that narrow strip of land that separates southeastern Angola from Botswana begins. Rundu is growing quickly (I don't know the cause) and is now at about 85,000 people, making it the second-largest city in Namibia. The Okavango River is itself interesting; it's about a thousand miles (1,600 km) long but never comes near an ocean; it "starts" in central Angola and "ends" in Botswana, replenishing a large delta in the Kalahari Desert that hosts one of the largest African elephant populations and more than a thousand plant species. The Okavango Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage site. This is like the third or fourth time this year I've been floored by how beautiful Namibian stamps can be. |
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gbcc
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Post by gbcc on Mar 25, 2023 7:23:42 GMT
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Post by peter on Mar 25, 2023 10:14:21 GMT
25 March 1986 This International Priority Paid (IPP) cover, was posted at Kidman Park, South Australia (a western suburb of Adelaide) on March 24. On March 25, it received a Priority Paid clock date stamp at the Melbourne Mail Exchange where it was processed for onward transmission to Canada. There is a further "International" clock date stamp for March 25 in green, partially obscured by the remnants of an IPP docket that was subsequently attached. |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on Mar 25, 2023 10:58:34 GMT
25 March 1911 French Guinea Sc 37 YT 37,issued in 1906.Postmarked at the city of Mamou,Guinea.  |
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Mar 25, 2023 14:21:49 GMT
24 March 1863 This March 24, 1863 cover is addressed to the Unitarian minister, historian and hymnologist, Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, Boston. The letter this cover once enclosed was likely regarding the research, writing or publication of that memoir.
Nice work. The handwriting suggests to me Foote's correspondent was old or infirm. Maybe old-fashioned enough to still write with a quill? Without knowing anything, I'd guess elderly male relative. The docketed Walker looks a great fit.
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gbcc
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Post by gbcc on Mar 26, 2023 6:59:49 GMT
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drblade
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Post by drblade on Mar 26, 2023 8:20:33 GMT
I remember them well, travelled on many of them??  |
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Post by peter on Mar 26, 2023 8:54:38 GMT
26 March 1970 The Government of the State of Victoria in Australia blazed a trail in 1970 by introducing legislation for mandatory seat belt usage, making it the first in the Western world to do so. It wasn't long before the other Australian states followed suit, but changing the long-established habits of drivers would prove to be a slow process. Even by 1977, seat belt usage had yet to be fully embraced, though it had increased to 90%. A witty slogan was employed at GPOs nationwide in the weeks commencing March 22, and April 5, 1971, to help drive the message home (pun intended!). This example is dated March 26, 1971. |
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Mick
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Post by Mick on Mar 26, 2023 19:19:57 GMT
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eggdog
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Post by eggdog on Mar 27, 2023 0:10:29 GMT
106 years ago today, in Korytsa (aka Korçë), Albania...  "Korytsa" is the Greek name for Korçë, and "Albanie" is the French name for Shqipëria. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Greece claimed this city, which is in the southeast of Albania, near the borders with Greece and the current Republic of Northern Macedonia. (The Bulgarians also put a claim in, on the principle, I suppose, that they thought Macedonia was theirs and Korçë was the next place over past that.) It was awarded to Albania in 1913, and the Greeks who lived there - a majority of the population - were hopping mad. I'm by no means an expert on Albanian stamps - they're as complicated as Albania's formation as a republic, which I've read a couple of books about and still don't get - but I've never seen any evidence that any of the stamps of this design ever got placed on an envelope that anybody wanted to send somewhere. I have no reason to believe that this particular stamp was postmarked on 26 March 1917, either, or that it resided in Korçë at that time. But that double-headed eagle! If you want to tell the world that you mean business and you aren't here to horse around, nothing's better than a double-headed eagle. I know it's not your fault, Geoff gbcc , but now we know who to blame, eh? For all the billions of stamps Portugal has issued, I've seen relatively few covers from there, and even fewer that have nice CDSes like this one. Personally speaking, their "classics" never really sparked my interest, and their modern stamps are issued at such a head-spinning velocity that I stopped even trying to keep track of them. But I always liked this armored-knight series. Quaint, maybe a little hokey, but I don't know, there's something sincere about them. And somebody put some care into them, too; they're very well crafted. |
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