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Post by alanl on Oct 5, 2014 22:39:50 GMT
Southgate, London, England on October the 5th.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 6, 2014 1:00:41 GMT
October 5Registered cover from Pierceville, Indiana in 1898 (note whate appears to be an inverted 5 substituting for a 9 in the year slug). Two 5c dark blue, perf. 12 Grants (Scott 281; March 1898) paid the postage and registry fee (2c/8c).  First day cover for the 31c multicolored, perf. 13.5 stamp (Scott 313) from the 1979 Namibia issue. 
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Post by rod222 on Oct 6, 2014 9:51:47 GMT
Registered cover from Pierceville, Indiana in 1898 (note whate appears to be an inverted 5 substituting for a 9 in the year slug). Two 5c dark blue, perf. 12 Grants (Scott 281; March 1898) paid the postage and registry fee (2c/8c). Well spotted Steve. Interesting auxilliary marking (Registration?) Grid of dots and 758 Robinson Norton Underwear....... union-made.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/1908-jm-robinson-norton-co-salesman.html |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 6, 2014 23:36:55 GMT
October 6th, 1928
An unusual pre-printed Notification of Receipt card from HARBIN, China to (or is it from?) the “representative / delegation” of the Czechoslovak Republic in Moscow (15/10 machine cds) with an additional office receiver handstamp (in Czech) of 20/10. The 10k franking is circled with violet ink, a large “T” is applied in the same ink, as well as a “Doplatit” (due) oval in violet with no handwritten charge. The large “T” is later crossed-out. The back of the card bears the name of a recipient in Harbin, but no sum to be transferred. It is unclear how a NOR card could be used to and from a foreign location at the correct non-registered domestic rate of the period (10k): presumably this is what caused consternation and the application of the postage-due markings (in Moscow or in Harbin and Moscow).
Opinion. I cannot benefit from reading the card, but going by the markings, I would say the original article was sent AR to Harbin, (16th) the card receipted as arrived and forwarded back to the sender (20th) The card would have been prepaid at the original PO, and the postage due not required or enforceable. |
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 6, 2014 23:58:09 GMT
October 6From Albany, Oregon in 1958. This stamped envelope (2c surcharge in red and 2c carmine Washington, die 4; Scott U538c) has the corner card of Van Dahl Publications, Inc., publishers of Western Stamp Collector and Covers Magazine. Van Dahl also published three editions of the American Stampless Cover Catalog (1952, 1965 and 1971). The Democrat Herald Publishing Company purchased Van Dahl in 1976. 
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Post by vasia on Oct 7, 2014 14:55:12 GMT
Opinion. I cannot benefit from reading the card, but going by the markings, I would say the original article was sent AR to Harbin, (16th) the card receipted as arrived and forwarded back to the sender (20th) The card would have been prepaid at the original PO, and the postage due not required or enforceable. Interesting thought, Rod! By its title ("Notification of Receipt"), this card might have been something else than the regular NOR cards frequently seen during the 1920's and used to notify recipients across the USSR about sums of money received from abroad. These more typical cards (I have already shown some) were sent from a bank in Moscow to a location in the USSR and then returned from there to Moscow upon disbursement of the money. Here there is no indication of a money transaction on the back of the card, so it might have accompanied a different type of sending. The card probably originated in Moscow (where the stamp was applied), reached Harbin, was dispatched from there on October 6th and reached Moscow on the 15th (machine cds). What confused me is that the franking (10k) corresponded to the rate used on the typical NOR cards domestically. Maybe this is what instigated the application of the postage-due, which was later not enforced. |
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 7, 2014 18:50:28 GMT
October 7From Flushing, New York in 1862; the 3c rose, perf. 12 Washington is Scott 65. 
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Post by alanl on Oct 7, 2014 22:48:25 GMT
It`s October the 7th in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and London, England.  And Vancouver, British Columbia.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 8, 2014 18:36:42 GMT
October 8
Sevierville, Tennessee in 1934, first day of issue for the 10c gray black, perf. 11 Great Smokey Mountains stamp (Scott 749 ) from the National Parks Year issue.  In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Postal Administration, two stamps were issued in New York in 1976; a 13c blue & multicolored, perf. 11.5 stamp (Scott 278) and a 31c green & multicolored, perf. 11.5 stamp (Scott 279).  
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Post by alanl on Oct 8, 2014 22:55:01 GMT
October 8th in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland and Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.  And Frolands Verk, Norway.  |
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Post by alanl on Oct 9, 2014 22:47:04 GMT
In Kilburn, London and Tonbridge, Kent, England it`s October the 9th.  And the Stovner district of Oslo, Norway.  |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 9, 2014 23:21:26 GMT
October 9th, 1924
Picture postcard (view of Gagry in the Caucasus) presumably posted aboard the Odessa-Batum parokh (=steamer, eastward direction) and addressed to Yugoslavia. A stamp appears to have been affixed at upper right (see traces of a second steamship postmark) and the card went through Tiflis and ?? (an additional circular cds).
Very prominent is an oval postmark in the Georgian language with an un-decipherable handwritten notation in violet. According to an expert's opinion, this oval postmark in Georgian reads: “(on top), damet'ebit paci (surcharge for urgent mail). The bottom line simply reads, 2/Tp'lisi/2. This is an alternate spelling for Tbilisi”=Tiflis. The use of the Odessa-Batum steamship postmarks during the Soviet period is rather scarce (see Michalove’s article in Rossica 131-2 and his Samovar exhibit), especially so in combination with an all-Georgian postage-due mark.
Fascinating Vasia. One query...How can the steamer be going Eastward if destination Yugoslavia, that would have to be westward, if the card originated from Georgia. ? |
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 10, 2014 1:30:56 GMT
October 9
Stampless folded letter mailed in 1847 with 30mm blue "LEWISTOWN/Pa." and "5" in blue double-lined oval indicating the "under 300 mile" zone rate for half-ounce letters. 
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Post by vasia on Oct 10, 2014 4:16:23 GMT
Fascinating Vasia. One query...How can the steamer be going Eastward if destination Yugoslavia, that would have to be westward, if the card originated from Georgia. ? Good question, Rod! I think the card was actually posted on-board the steamer going in an easterly direction from Odessa to the port of Batum, then entered the postal stream in Batum, was forwarded by rail to Tiflis for further handling (postage-due) and dispatch northward to Moscow by rail. |
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Post by I.L.S. on Oct 10, 2014 7:13:20 GMT
October 9
Stampless folded letter mailed in 1847 with 30mm blue "LEWISTOWN/Pa." and "5" in blue double-lined oval indicating the "under 300 mile" zone rate for half-ounce letters. You just love to tease me with cover every year don't you Steve...C'mon man, I just know you was smirking as you was scanning this and thinking of me... lol |
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Post by alanl on Oct 10, 2014 22:49:06 GMT
It`s October 10th in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland and Grimsby & Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England.  |
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Post by vasia on Oct 11, 2014 15:24:35 GMT
October 11th, 1928
Cover from Київ Привокзальна пошт.- Телеграфна к-ра (Kiev railway station post and telegraph office) to Kamenets, Podolia (backstamp of 13/10/1928). Franked correctly at 20k with “Large Heads”, cancelled with Kiev / Kyiv (Russian-Ukrainian) railway station cds. The non-standard registration label is perfed, with black border and pre-printed post office name and registration number. Commercial correspondence between companies.
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Post by alanl on Oct 11, 2014 22:44:02 GMT
In Motherwell & Wishaw, Scotland and Vanvikan, Norway it`s October the 11th.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Oct 12, 2014 14:16:51 GMT
October 12From Morristown, Tennessee in 1903 (1c blue green, perf 12 Franklin issued in February 1903 (Scott 300).  From Zvikovec, Czechoslovakia in 1921 (60h dark blue, perf. 14 "breaking chains" (Scott 73, 1920) and 5h violet, perf. 14 "carrier pigeon" (Scott 82, 1920-25).  From Washington, DC in 1943 (5c blue violet, pale blue, greenish blue & black, perf. 12 Overrun Countries: Greece (Scott 916). 
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Post by rod222 on Oct 12, 2014 20:40:41 GMT
October 12From Zvikovec, Czechoslovakia in 1921 (60h dark blue, perf. 14 "breaking chains" (Scott 73, 1920) and 5h violet, perf. 14 "carrier pigeon" (Scott 82, 1920-25). Nice Czech Mutilated stationery Steve, I wonder if Professor Benda the Czech designer of the "carrier pigeon" was flattered, when a few years later the Germans borrowed his design.....? Personally, I prefer the Czech Art nouveau item.  |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 12, 2014 21:07:46 GMT
Actually, your stamp is really "Blue" not "Dark Blue" Scott does not list the Blue Gibbons offers #197 as "deep Blue" and #197a as "Blue" the lower cv of the two. Curiously Gibbons do not list the "10 Linden leaves" variety (1965 vers) My "Deep Blue" for comparison. Inscribed VHB at bottom for V Brunner, designer.  |
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Post by alanl on Oct 12, 2014 22:41:25 GMT
The 12th of October in Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, England and Byremo, Norway. Stoke-On-Trent is the birth place of Arnold Machin.  |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 13, 2014 12:27:05 GMT
October 13th, 1927
Large-sized cover from Niznii Novgorod, serial “х” to Berlin (bank receiver of 17/10). Franked correctly at 14k with 8k/7k soldier overprint, the scarcer perf. 12, + 2 х 3k “small head” (probably the wmk version). Correspondence between banks.
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