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Post by franoise on Oct 6, 2024 11:44:47 GMT
Lithuania,6 October 1995 Cover mailed from Joniškis to Albertslund (Denmark) Stamps : Moths (Michel # 589-90), Bishop Motiejus Valančius (Mi # 584) and Aukštaičiai folk costume (Mi # 581)
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Post by Hugh on Oct 6, 2024 12:50:16 GMT
October 6, 1916 ... and this Romanian picture postcard was postmarked as feldpost by the Imperial German Alpenkorps. The Alpenkorps was a division of specialized mountain troops largely formed from Bavarian regiments. After Romania entered the war in August 1916 on the side of the Entente, the Alpenkorps was transferred from France to fight in the Romanian Campaign. This feldpost is a re-purposed picture postcard featuring Sibiiu – a town in Transylvania. After the defeat of the Romanian Army and the occupation of most of Romania, the unit returned to France for the balance of the war. The soldier is writting to Stetten, a town on the German side of Lake Constance.   |
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Post by BermudaSailor on Oct 6, 2024 13:08:34 GMT
A censored cover from a month into the Second World War:  |
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Post by REL1948 on Oct 6, 2024 16:10:40 GMT
Switzerland, 1934, Scott number 225, view of the Rhine Falls, Rheineck cancellation, a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
My apologies for posting this a day late, I've been away from my computer. To make matters worse, I first posted it on 10-04 by mistake but (hdm1950) caught it (thanks Hugh) so I pulled it off the site that day and this was my first chance to re-post it.
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Post by gbcc on Oct 7, 2024 4:32:18 GMT
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Post by Hugh on Oct 7, 2024 11:37:58 GMT
October 7, 1977 … and one of a great many FDCs, produced as part of a multi-year series in celebration of the pivotal events of the American Revolution, is cancelled at Schuylerville, NY and sent to a collector in Connecticut. This particular cover features the ‘Surrender at Saratoga’ when British General Burgoyne surrenders to American General Horatio Gates. The Battle of Saratoga took between September 19 and October 7, 1777. Some 7-8,000 British troops marched south from Canada into New York with the goal of dividing the northern New England colonies from the colonies in the south. Instead, having been surrounded by American forces, they were forced to surrender. This victory resulted in France entering the war on the side of the fledging United States. This was a turning point in the war as not only did it result in aid in the form of French troops, arms, supplies and loans, the British were forced to divert their own resources to deal with French threats in the West Indies and Europe. Stamp: American Bicentennial Issue USA – Surrender of Burgoyne after a painting by John Trumbull Issued on October 7, 1977 13c Sc. 1728  |
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Post by franoise on Oct 7, 2024 11:41:29 GMT
France,7 October 1935 Cover mailed from Metz to Besny-et-Loizy Stamp : "Peace" definitive (Michel # 276) with advertisement tab Slogan cancel : "visit Metz and its trade fair"
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Post by REL1948 on Oct 8, 2024 4:21:41 GMT
Switzerland Numeral series, 1882 - 1889 Scott Number 73, cancelled in Geneva on October 8, 1889. Geneva is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous of the French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Switzerland Numeral series, 1882 - 1889 Number 73a, cancelled in Schönenwerd on October 8, 1902. Schönenwerd is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Switzerland Numeral series, 1905 Number 116, cancelled in Wald, a village and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
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Post by franoise on Oct 8, 2024 11:38:13 GMT
Today three covers with "letter week" postmarks
Estonia,8 October 1998 Cover mailed from Tallinn to Aruküla Stamp : "coat of arms" definitive (Michel # 315b) Postmark : international letter week
Lithuania (in Soviet Union), 8 October 1966 Stationery airmail envelope ("letter week") with special postmark from Vilnius Not mailed
Latvia (in Soviet Union),8 October 1965 Stationery envelope ("letter week") with special postmark from Riga Additional stamp : 25th anniversary of Latvian Soviet Republic ( Michel # 3088) Not mailed
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Post by Hugh on Oct 8, 2024 13:04:09 GMT
October 8, 1945 ... and an altered Third Reich CDS hammer was used to cancel this cover going from München [Munich] to Thüngen / Ufr. [Lower Franconia]. The altered CDS had elements from the previous regime removed and replaced by the word 'Bezahlt' [Paid]. On the other side are two handstamps in blue ink. One reads 'German Geschaftlich' [German Business] ... the other, a large single ring. The outside reads, 'Brauwirisshaftsverband Bayern' [Bavarian Brewing Industry Association]. Inside, "München 12 / Grasserstr. 1". The cover was addressed to Baron von Thüngen'sche / Castle Brewery. Regimes come and go ... beer, apparently, is forever.   |
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Post by gbcc on Oct 9, 2024 4:37:20 GMT
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Post by franoise on Oct 9, 2024 11:49:42 GMT
More "letter week" covers from the Baltic States Estonia,9 0ctober 1998 Cover mailed from Tallinn to Aruküla Stamp : Tallinn Zoo (Michel # 333) Postmark : international letter week
Estonia (in Soviet Union), 9 October 1981
Stationery envelope (30 years since the entry of the USSR in the Olympic Movement) Special postmark ("letter week") from Tallinn
Lithuania (in Soviet Union),9 0ctober 1961 Stationery envelope (letter week) with a special postmark from Vilnius
Latvia (in Soviet Union),9 October 1972 Stationery envelope (letter week) Special postmark from Riga : the first day of the "letter week" is dedicated to philately
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Post by Hugh on Oct 9, 2024 14:59:04 GMT
October 9, 1915, a Saturday, between 9 and 10 in the morning ... and this German feldpost CDS was applied to a repurposed picture postcard. The sender, a german soldier, addressed it on Friday to Fräulein Hertha Graff in Hamburg. His dateline reads " Russland [Russia] 8/10 1916”. I assume Miss Graff is a sister or cousin of the soldier as they have the same last name based on my reading of the return military address (top of card). The card has a photographic image of the Vilnius Castle Complex with a pre-war view of the Gediminas Tower. The site was much damaged in the subsequent two wars. Based on the feldpost CDS, he is a member of XXXX Korps, a reserve unit of the Imperial German Army. Based on the postcard and the date it was sent, he is likely a member of a detachment from 40 Korps assigned to Army Group Litzmann on the Eastern Front. This Army Group included members of the XXXX Reserve Korps, units from the Ausrtian-Hungarian Army and the so-called Army of the Bug (named after the Bug River). Army Group Litzman served in what is today Poland and along the Eastern Front with Russia. Cancel: Feldpost CDS Outer Ring - K.D.Feldpostamt / XXXX.ReservekorpsInner - -9.10.15. 9-10 V / aMilitary Stamp:Outer Ring - Kgl.Preuss.Etap-Fuhrpark-Kol.No ... [Royal Prussian Tranportation and Communication Supply Column Number ... ] Inner - Briefstempel [Postmark] Postcard: Front: Wilno / Góra Zamkowa [Vilnius / Castle Mount - not sure of the translation] Image of Gediminas Tower Back: [Series Number] 11-2227 Published by K. Rio Vilna [Vilnius]   |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2024 18:29:28 GMT
October 9th, 1997: Philatelic joint First Day Cover between China and New Zealand: 
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Post by gbcc on Oct 10, 2024 4:47:39 GMT
Postmark/Cover of the day 10 October 1974 150th Anniversary Edinburgh Fire Brigade Edinburgh Geoff (GBCC) www.gbcovercollector.co.uk  |
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Post by franoise on Oct 10, 2024 11:35:11 GMT
France,10 0ctober 1939
Stationery postcard (Michel # P77) sent from Amiens ("its velvets,its tailoring") to Paris
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Post by kasvik on Oct 10, 2024 12:49:34 GMT
Celebrating Saab's small airliner in 1987. High value, issued earlier that year. I don't know what the SEK 25 rate was for.
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Post by Hugh on Oct 10, 2024 13:01:51 GMT
October 10, 1917 .... and a Niagara Falls, Ontario duplex cancel was applied to this Valentine & Sons postcard of the nearby Lundy's Lane Battlefield Monument next to the cemetery on Drummond Hill. It was sent by Dave Susy to Mrs Frank Ward at Sodus, NY about 200KM east across the border. He writes, "I'm out here on the farm helping them with the peaches. I load the on the waggons and unload them on the trains, also pick and pack, I love it. It's a wonderful farm, 80 acres of peaches. Has even your orchard out there beaten. Remember me to Frank." What's interesting is that Valentine's printed description of the monument on the postcard is so long it takes the entire area available for messages. Dave wrote sideways, over top of the printing, with thick pen strokes, to ensure his message stood out. Stamp:Canada: George V - Admiral Issue (1911-25) 2c Carmine Unitrade 106 Cancel: Single Ring Duplex [Edit: Machine Cancellation: Model B Universal Machine / Dater Hub + 7 wavy lines] Thanks rod222Outer - NIAGARA FALLS ONT.Inner - OCT 10 / 3PM / 1917
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Post by norsten on Oct 10, 2024 13:30:26 GMT
October 10, 1980 - The autumn when I first started collecting stamps
 The stamp is depicting a scene from an early experimental film "Diagonal Symphony" by Viking Eggeling and thus commemorating the centenary of his birth. Postmark is a Type 61 from Karlskrona 3.
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Post by doug534 on Oct 10, 2024 15:17:27 GMT
10 Oct 1949, British Commonwealth states of the West Indies. First Day Covers for the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union. Scott common designs CD306-309. The states and associated Scott catalogue numbers are: Bermuda (#138-141), Grenada (#147-150), Antigua (#100-103), Leeward Islands (#126-129), Montserrat (#108-111), and British Honduras (#137-140). From the large number of covers in my Dad's philatelic materials, all in storage since the mid-1950s.  |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 10, 2024 22:40:32 GMT
Hi HughCancel: Single Ring DuplexPolite suggestion. This cancel is an "Machine Cancel" not a duplex Happy to be corrected if a Canadian term you use.  |
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Post by Hugh on Oct 11, 2024 3:22:31 GMT
Hi Hugh Cancel: Single Ring DuplexPolite suggestion. This cancel is an "Machine Cancel" not a duplex Happy to be corrected if a Canadian term you use. You are correct ... my bad. A year before WW1, Niagara Falls rented a Model B Universal Machine at C$150 per year. The exact date of the contract is apparantly in some doubt but it was certainly in place by the time of this cover. Probably from 1913. LKU is April 11, 1918. (Source: Postal History Society of Canada) Thanks for pointing this out. Much appreciated. I've updated my earlier post (and my album page). [Edit: Rod ... You beat me to it (smile). I posted this before I saw that you already found the same information. Again, thanks ... I appreciate your efforts.] |
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Post by gbcc on Oct 11, 2024 5:37:06 GMT
Postmark/Cover of the day 11 October 1971 Commonwealth Postal Conference Marlborough House London Geoff (GBCC) www.gbcovercollector.co.uk  |
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Post by franoise on Oct 11, 2024 11:34:23 GMT
Latvia (in Soviet Union),11 October 1989 Illustrated envelope (Monument to the heroes of the defense of Sevastopol) mailed (registered) within Riga Stamp : Pulkovo observatory (Michel # 5976)
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Post by REL1948 on Oct 11, 2024 15:15:25 GMT
Great Britain, 11 October, 1929, Newspaper Wrapper from Oxford England to ? in Holland. Franked by stamped to order postal stationery # L14a (per Huggins) 1d and SG114 1d celebrating the 9th UPU Congress in London.
Sent to a Baron von Lynden v. Horst.......?? in Holland (sorry, I don't understand the dutch elements in the address).
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Post by REL1948 on Oct 11, 2024 15:35:03 GMT
Switzerland Numeral series of 1905 Scott Number 115, cancelled in Leuk-Stadt (French: Loèche-Ville) a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland on October 11, 1905.
Switzerland Numeral series of 1882-89 Scott Number 73, cancelled on October 11, 1892 in Chur the capital and largest town of the Swiss canton of the Grisons and lies in the Grisonian Rhine Valley, where the Rhine turns towards the north, in the northern part of the canton. The city, on the right bank of the Rhine, is reputedly the oldest town in Switzerland.
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Post by Mick on Oct 11, 2024 16:28:09 GMT
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Post by gbcc on Oct 12, 2024 6:01:34 GMT
Postmark/Cover of the day 12 October 1981 Official Opening Day Philatelic Counter City Centre Post Office Milton Keynes Geoff (GBCC) www.gbcovercollector.co.uk  |
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Post by franoise on Oct 12, 2024 11:37:27 GMT
Spain,12 October 1976 FDC mailed from Barcelona to Wissembourg (France) Stamp : royal visit to America (Michel # 2263)
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Post by REL1948 on Oct 13, 2024 3:50:24 GMT
Switzerland, Scott number 164 (granite paper), cancelled October 12, 1912 in Monthey, Switzerland. Monthey is the capital of the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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