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Post by Ryan on Nov 15, 2014 21:46:45 GMT
Cover from ASCHABAD, Turkestan (bilingual Russian / Modified Latin postmark) to Chemnitz, Germany (27/11/1935)
If anybody else is a fan of orthography, this Wikipedia page listing the various modified Latin alphabets in use in the USSR might be fun to look through. The listing for Azerbaijan looks like it would be confusing to keep on top of the rule changes, they sure fiddled with the alphabet a lot. Ryan |
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Post by alanl on Nov 15, 2014 23:42:27 GMT
It`s November the 15th in Ayr, Ayrshire and Head Post Office, West Lothian, Scotland.  And Vancouver, British Columbia.  |
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Post by vasia on Nov 16, 2014 14:38:02 GMT
November 16th, 1917
Cover from Petrograd to ИЛЬИНСКОЕ (Ilinskoye), Perm (23/11/1917 backstamp). Registered with standard orange “З” label and franked correctly at 35k with single 35k Arms.
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Post by alanl on Nov 16, 2014 23:52:44 GMT
November the 16th in Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, England and Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.  And Vancouver, British Columbia.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Nov 17, 2014 22:11:42 GMT
November 17This 3c black on lemon Post Office Department stamped envelope (Scott UO2; `873)) was postmarked Washington, DC.  Postmarked at the United Nations in New York in 1967; the miniature sheet of six, 6 cent, rouletted 9 stamps depicts the stained glass memorial window at the UN Headquarters by Marc Chagall (Scott 179)  Also issued on this date in 1967 was this 6c, perf 13x13.5 stamp depicting "The Kiss of Peace" by Marc Chagall (Scott 180).  Lastly, from the UN, New York in 1972, another entry in the "Art at the UN" series. The design of these 8c (Scott 232) and 15c (Scott 233) stamps shows part of a ceiling mural of the Council Hall, Palais des Nations, Geneva; it depicts the five continents joining in space. 
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Post by alanl on Nov 17, 2014 23:51:20 GMT
It`s November the 17th in Invergordon, Scotland and Sint-Truiden, Belgium.  And Vancouver, British Columbia.  |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 18, 2014 5:35:02 GMT
Sorry to labour the point, but things (to me) don't add up. Agreed, Archives point to a Post Office in Gilby, but perhaps you need to consider what status that Post Office had? Would it be just a "store" without a canceller? Eckville, just 5 Km away, had a PO in a room in a house, have you seen a Postmark from there, prior to the Canadian Pacific railway getting there in 1912? In the early days, it took 3 days to "gather mail from the stores" as a reminiscence from a Mailman from Red Deer. Was there a hiearchy such as a Post Office Agency, v Post Office? Your Archives point to no agency at all after 1929?  |
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Post by Ryan on Nov 18, 2014 9:07:56 GMT
Was there a hiearchy such as a Post Office Agency, v Post Office? Your Archives point to no agency at all after 1929? That's right, according to the Archives the Gilby PO was closed early in 1930. I'm just taking the Archives for face value - they call Gilby a post office, with a designated Postmaster. It may be otherwise, though. The Eckville history book produced for the 1980 provincial jubilee says that prior to 1905, their mail came to the Evarts post office. Evarts hardly amounted to much more than Gilby - the Wikipedia page says Evarts had a population of 18 in 1914 ... And as an aside, the Hendrik Kingsep mentioned in your article is my great-great-grandfather, the first Estonian to emigrate to Alberta. Ryan |
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Post by alanl on Nov 18, 2014 23:41:46 GMT
Plymouth, Cornwall & Devon, England and Oslo, Norway on November the 18th.  |
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Post by I.L.S. on Nov 19, 2014 9:30:44 GMT
Apparently Rodney (our forum member) is related to the Tauntons as mentioned by him a few years back..
NOVEMBER 19th red & TAUNTON MASS dial stampless letter. (A bit too brittle to open but I'll look for the scan of it I done wen I got it.) Misses Samuel D Orrick & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Taunton was founded by settlers from England and officially incorporated as a town on September 3, 1639. Most of the town's settlers were originally from Taunton in Somerset, England, which led early settlers to name the settlement after that town. At the time of Taunton's incorporation, they explained their choice of name as being, in honour and love to our dear native country... and owning it a great mercy of God to bring us to this place, and settling of us, on lands of our own bought with our money in peace, in the midst of the heathen, for a possession for ourselves and for our posterity after us. Prior to 1640, the Taunton area was called Cohannet, Tetiquet or Titiquet.
The British founders of Taunton purchased the land from the Nemasket Indians in 1637 as part of the Tetiquet Purchase and the remaining native families were relocated to the praying town of Ponkapoag in current day Canton, MA. The Taunton area was the site of battles (on its soil or in the surrounding area) during various conflicts, including King Philip's War and the American Revolution. Taunton was re-incorporated as a city on May 11, 1864.
The writer appears to be Barney Dean. The Dean family is/was very prominent in southeastern Massachusetts and in fact Taunton has streets named as such.
As far as I can tell Barney Dean was born in 1796 and died on January 24, 1840 at the age of 44.
A reference that Barney Dean was a Director of the Bristol County National Bank from 1833-1839 and was also affiliated at one time with the firm Washburn, Barney Dean, which I understand was some sort of coffee-mill manufacturing business back in the day.
It was called Taunton from 1639 forward (prior to 1639 it was called Cohannet). The re-incorporation recited in the earlier quote was when it was formed into a city from a town. All of these elements are included in the present-day official seal used by the City of Taunton:
The Latin:
"The town's seal was acquired in 1865 and commemorates Elizabeth Poole. It depicts a woman negotiating with Indians. The inscription reads: ‘Dux Femina Facti', meaning ‘A Woman was the Leader of the Things Accomplished'. She is believed to have purchased the Cohannet river from the Indians. "
Mrs. Caroline R Orrick, in the 53d year of her age, wife of Samuel D. Orrick, and daughter of the late George Ross, Esq., of Lancaster, Penna. died on the 16th of April last, on board the ship Gloriana, bound from Calcutta to London.
The Ship Gloriana on the Thames. (The ship on which Samuel Orrick's wife passed away on the way from London to Calcutta.)
There are records in a book in the Altoona, Pa. library that consist of 26 letters addressed to Orrick & Fox, Samuel D. Orrick & Co., Orrick, Grubbs & Parker and E. B. & C. B. Grubb. They are primarily concerned with shipments of iron from the Grubb furnaces and its resale to manufacturers along the east coast. Among the Grubb Furnaces mentioned are Mananda in Dauphin County and Mt. Hope in Lancaster County. Other correspondence includes the famous Tredegar.
State Agency Series Listing at the Maryland State Archives
CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
1836-1837
MSA SSF 512
Date: 1836/04/11
7524: Samuel D. Orrick vs. Isaac Savill and Jane Savill. BA. Petition to sell lot in BC.
Accession No.: 17,898-7524 MSA S512-10-7541 Location: 1/38/3/
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Post by rod222 on Nov 19, 2014 12:25:04 GMT
Apparently Rodney (our forum member) is related to the Tauntons as mentioned by him a few years back..
Thanks Jeff, indeed related, my Mother's maiden name was Taunton, from a family that resided there since who knows when. Nice Posting, I have a lot of it from a previous post of yours. I really enjoy my genealogy wanderings, William Dampier, the first european ever to visit Australia, was born just 4 Kilometers away from our home. Cover from 1699  |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 19, 2014 13:28:08 GMT
NOVEMBER 19th red & TAUNTON MASS dial stampless letter. (A bit too brittle to open but I'll look for the scan of it I done wen I got it.) Misses Samuel D Orrick & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Interesting letter, I read it as the receipt of some (low grade) Pig Iron, where the receiver is perhaps a forwarding / holding agent. He is suggesting the 10 tons of Iron (probably bar Iron) is a lower grade than the (malleable) Scotch Iron, and is suggesting 6 months to try and sell the lot. Interesting in that is the closing of the period of the Industrial Revolution, and perhaps the beginning of climate change ? In Scotland, at this time, 915 Tons of Iron (Merchant Bars) was taking 915 tons of coal, in the Blast Furnace. Multiply that out, considering Scotland alone in circa 1839, was producing around 360,000 tons of Pig Iron. |
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Post by Ryan on Nov 19, 2014 20:54:13 GMT
Interesting in that is the closing of the period of the Industrial Revolution, and perhaps the beginning of climate change ? In Scotland, at this time, 915 Tons of Iron (Merchant Bars) was taking 915 tons of coal, in the Blast Furnace. Multiply that out, considering Scotland alone in circa 1839, was producing around 360,000 tons of Pig Iron. Pittsburgh, PA is America's great steel city (Hamilton, ON in Canada, both comparable to Sheffield in England). Have you ever seen historic photos of Pittsburgh back in the day? Here's what it looked like in 1940. I've seen photos taken from the hill across the river, looking in at the city with its innumerable smoke stacks from the steel mills - as a writer said way back in 1857, it looked like "hell with the lid off".  Ryan |
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Post by alanl on Nov 19, 2014 23:50:08 GMT
It`s November the 19th in Andover, Hampshire and Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England.  And Royal Mail Aberdeen, Scotland.  |
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Post by irishjack on Nov 20, 2014 4:49:16 GMT
Interesting in that is the closing of the period of the Industrial Revolution, and perhaps the beginning of climate change ? In Scotland, at this time, 915 Tons of Iron (Merchant Bars) was taking 915 tons of coal, in the Blast Furnace. Multiply that out, considering Scotland alone in circa 1839, was producing around 360,000 tons of Pig Iron. Pittsburgh, PA is America's great steel city (Hamilton, ON in Canada, both comparable to Sheffield in England). Have you ever seen historic photos of Pittsburgh back in the day? Here's what it looked like in 1940. I've seen photos taken from the hill across the river, looking in at the city with its innumerable smoke stacks from the steel mills - as a writer said way back in 1857, it looked like "hell with the lid off". Ryan
My father in law worked in the steel plants in Hamilton, he found a pair of black kittens while doing some work near the stacks. Seeing that they seemed abandon he put them in his lunch pail and took them home, my wife who was about 4 at the time was given one and the other to her sister. He always came home dirty and black. While the kids played with the kittens their hands got dirty, well he brought home 2 white kittens, the cats were coated in heavy soot and slag dust.
Every time I hear about Hamilton I think of them cats, it was a really dirty city much improved with modern stack scrubbers most of the emissions get washed out of the exhaust prior to hitting the environment.
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Post by I.L.S. on Nov 20, 2014 11:46:04 GMT
That black soot actually made it's way clear to the Williamsport pa back in the day. Reports of "the black clouds" and "soot storms" were reported! Of course we had our own still mills to contend with too! eg: The Jersey Shore Steel Mill.
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Post by alanl on Nov 20, 2014 23:42:07 GMT
Barnet, Hertfordshire, England and Edinburgh, Lothian Fife Borders, Scotland on November the 20th.  And Wagrain, Austria.  |
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Post by alanl on Nov 21, 2014 23:48:00 GMT
The 21st of November at Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England and New York, NY, USA.  And my hometown, New Westminster, B.C. cancelled on my birthday. I was 21 in 1968. I wish today was my 21st birthday.  |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 22, 2014 0:00:44 GMT
Me too  If one believes in reincarnation, then you are just closer to coming back. We (some of us) have been blessed by living through one of the most peaceful eras in the planet's history. |
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Post by alanl on Nov 22, 2014 23:45:20 GMT
A pair from Kingston Upon Thames, London on November 22.  And Vancouver, British Columbia.  |
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Post by I.L.S. on Nov 23, 2014 10:24:18 GMT
NOVEMBER 23rd 1929 Hillsboro, New Hampshire with the colloquially called "tri-plex"; just a Duplex cancel with an added year slug between the dial & killer. From a J.C. Parker at Hillsboro, New Hampshire addressed to an {can't understand that first letter/figure can you?} Edward DeMund Interlaken, New York. I had to google that town/vilage because I never heard of it before. If you want a bit more on the little village go here: www.villageofinterlaken.org/ Here is one from the 21st I forgot I had...I thought I'd squeak it in here- November 21st 1883 Emporium Pa dial corner card C.B. Howard & Sons LUMBER Emporium Pa.
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Post by rod222 on Nov 23, 2014 21:54:51 GMT
November 23rd, 1929
Philatelic-exchange cover (with logo and details of Soviet Philatelic Association) from MOCKBA ....гор. П.О. to Perth, Western Australia (21/12 on control stamp), through Italian Traveling Post Office Tarvisio-Venezia 190 (27/11/1929) and Napoli Porto (28/11/1929), where it presumably went aboard ship. Franked correctly at 28k with Lenin “Large Heads”. The non-standard registration label is perfed, with black-line border on one side and a pre-printed registration#. Philatelic exchange 5k stamp imperf at top (Michel Iva) on reverse - it was used to pay a fee as per the catalogue value (Yvert et Tellier) of the stamps enclosed.
Yikes! What a lovely cover ! My favourite Russian Stamp "St George and the Dragon" Mr. Cooke's house still stands. In my day, that was the "seedy" part of town, low income, run down homes. Now, millionaires row. Coincidentally, it is about 10 houses away from my old stamp club. Here is 252 Stirling Street today  |
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Post by alanl on Nov 23, 2014 23:54:07 GMT
It`s November the 23rd in Glasgow, Scotland and Worthing, West Sussex, England.  And Windermere, Cumbria, England.  |
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