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Post by vasia on Jan 10, 2014 14:07:32 GMT
January 10, 1928
Postal card with Russian/Turkmenian-Arabic heading and with instructions in the later language (similar cards were issued with a combination of Russian and the other basic languages of the Soviet Union). From Simferopol, Crimea with bilingual Russian/Arabic-Tatar cancel (possibly in Yaña imlâ alphabet: a modified version of Arabic script used for the Tatar language in 1920-1927) to Yevpatoria, Crimea (another bilingual c.d.s).
Starting in 1928 the Arabic-Tatar alphabet was phased-out and replaced with a modified-Latin alphabet. A gradual replacement of the Russian/Arabic postmarks of the Crimea took place soon thereafter.
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Post by alanl on Jan 11, 2014 0:03:23 GMT
Two cancels to show for January 10. First Loughborough, England (luff-bara). and second Vancouver, British Columbia.   |
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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 11, 2014 8:48:08 GMT
January 11th. 1912, Broad Street School, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.
Scott #374 1¢ Ben Franklin profile, flat plate, perf 12, single line watermark, EKU- November 23rd, 1910.
"Duplex " style cancel with date between CDS & killer.
Duplex cancellation device:
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January, 11th. 1923, Lima Cigar and Tobacco Co. advertising corner card cover. Scott #499 or #500 (cannot check watermark),
perf 11, flat plate, [either Type I. or Ia.?] It's most-likely a #499 as the #500 has a very distinctive color that I don't see on this one.
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Post by vasia on Jan 11, 2014 12:20:37 GMT
January 11, 1917
  POW postal card from Tsaritsyn, Saratov (later Stalingrad) to Pardubice, Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary). Circular red-violet double ring handstamp (ПЕЧАТЬ ДЛЯ ПАКЕТОВЬ – stamp official mail, hence the free-frank). Black rectangular censor mark of Tsaritsyn. Partly overlapping it at bottom, a black handstamp with 3 large letters – probably Simbirsk censor initials. Red triangular Austrian censor from Vienna. Censored thus at least 3 times!Two blue 2-line inscription handstamps (in Russian and French, applied in Russia and indicating POW correspondence). Message of card written in Czech language. [/font]
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Post by rod222 on Jan 11, 2014 12:50:21 GMT
Lovely hand script from Mr. Julius Lelenkova, indicates he was well educated, possibly an officer.
I wonder if all POW's had access to mail ?
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Post by vasia on Jan 11, 2014 16:06:46 GMT
Rod,
theoretically at least, all POW's had mail privilege as per the Geneva Conventions. In practice, some limitations might have existed due to the sheer volume of mail involved and the particular locations within the vast Russian Empire where POW's were kept. The sources (see for example, M.Lam "A Classification of World War I POW cards", Rossica Journal #150) mention a total number of 2.500.000 POW's in Russian captivity by the end of the war, distributed in approximately 6000 different places across the Empire. Only 45% of those were incarcerated in camps, the rest being spread outside under various degrees of supervision.
According to the official regulations, POW's could send no more than one piece of correspondence per week and they could write only in some basic language (German, Russian, French), obviously to allow for easier censorship. These restrictions were often not enforced, particularly the one about the language (my card is an example of the lax enforcement of this rule). The mail required the application of a free-frank cachet of the military unit responsible for the POW in order to confirm the card's "right" to be sent free (the violet circular handstamp on my card).
By 1917, the revolutionary upheavals inside the Russian Army and in Russian society at large had definitely altered the conditions for the POW's as well. Their conditions of internment might have become less strict, but their living conditions might have deteriorated due to the breakdown of the regular channels for food provisions, etc.
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 11, 2014 17:39:44 GMT
January 11A stampless folded letter with 30mm red Bridgeport, Connecticut CDS and manuscript 18-3/4 rate sent to Monkton, Vermont in 1845. 
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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 12, 2014 8:42:03 GMT
January 12th. 1914, Gulfport Mississippi. 1¢ green Washington profile, Scott #405/perf 12/ flat plate/ single line watermark. It wears a Columbia Rectiliner cancellation.  |
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Post by vasia on Jan 12, 2014 9:24:14 GMT
January 12, 1936
Cover from Romany, Azerbaijan to Czechoslovakia through Baku, 17/1/1936 (modified Latin / Cyrillic postmark). The letter is registered with a standard “R” label of Romany, sealing the backflap, and a dotted “R” in circle – quite late use. It is franked correctly at 35k with 20k + 15k definitives. [Ramana (also spelled Ramany, Romana, Azeri: Ramana, Ramanı; in full: Ramana qəsəbəsi — the Ramana settlement) is an urban-type settlement in Azerbaijan, within the Sabunchu district of Baku. Population (2005): 8,800].
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Post by rod222 on Jan 12, 2014 12:14:20 GMT
Fabulous circled "R" for registration, never seen that one before.
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Post by vasia on Jan 12, 2014 15:00:16 GMT
The so-called "dotted R in circle" is known used on registered correspondence from April 1883 to 1939 (the latest recorded example).
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 12, 2014 22:39:42 GMT
January 12From Royal Oak, Michigan in 1963. The 5c blue & red, perf. 11 "Flag over White House" stamp (Scott 1208) is a Giori press printing designed by Robert J. Jones and issued January 9, 1963.  From Fort Worth, Texas in 1948. The 3c blue green, perf. 11x10.5 stamp (Scott 951) was a rotary press printing designed by Andrew H. Hepburn and issued October 21, 1947 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the launching of the U.S. frigate Constitution.  From Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in 1937, another example of a roller cancel. 
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Post by alanl on Jan 13, 2014 0:11:51 GMT
From Cham, Switzerland to Victoria, British Columbia on January 12.   |
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Post by vasia on Jan 13, 2014 5:48:43 GMT
January 13, 1923
Inflation period cover from Petrograd to Brussels. Registered with standard orange label of Petrograd and franked correctly at 7R with 7 copies of the 100R imperf definitive (issued Dec. 1922). From January 1st, 1923 postal rates began to be indicated in paper currency of 1923, i.e 1 ruble = 100 rubles of 1922. 4 days before the posting of this letter, the international registered letter rate had risen from 3R (or 300R in 1922 currency) to 7R (or 700R).
The cover received the "3-triangle" cds of Petrograd (for some a sign of some type of control / censorship) and a control mark “446 D” (in Belgium?).
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Post by rod222 on Jan 13, 2014 8:10:10 GMT
"The cover received the "3-triangle" cds of Petrograd"
Could you expand please? I don't understand that, from the image of the CDS.
The 446D looks very similar style to the French Carrier strikes, on cards over Christmas and New Year.
I notice the 446 is repeated in blue wax crayon.
That may suggest the postal worker handling the registration entries perhaps, but then again
you would think it commonly seen on Belgian registered mail.
This is a real teaser.
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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 13, 2014 9:24:44 GMT
January 13th. 1944 Scott #C25 6¢ Twin motor transport plane. un-watermarked, perf 11 X 10.5, EKU- June 25th, 1941. Air Mail cover from a soldier in Arlington, Virginia.  |
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Post by vasia on Jan 13, 2014 11:36:47 GMT
"The cover received the "3-triangle" cds of Petrograd" Could you expand please? I don't understand that, from the image of the CDS. Rod, immediately to the left of the 13.1.23 Petrograd postmarks cancelling the stamps there is an additional, rather faint Petrograd postmark of the following day (14.1.23). This postmark bears at its base 3 solid triangles (the middle one can barely be seen), hence the term "3-triangle". During the early Soviet period one often finds such "3-triangle" dispatch office postmarks, particularly on international correspondence. They are usually circular, but Moscow also used an oval canceller of this type (resembling the oval travelling-post-office cancellations of Russia). The fact that these "3-triangle" postmarks are sometimes applied several days after the initial postmarking of the cover/card and that one does not find them on all pieces of correspondence, has led some experts to argue that they are signs of some form of secret censorship. However, as far as I am aware, no one has provided so far any concrete evidence based on archival sources. In the case of my cover, a "3-triangle" postmark of 14.1.23 would suggest a very efficient censorship apparatus, if the above hypothesis is correct. |
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Post by alanl on Jan 13, 2014 23:59:33 GMT
January 13. Cleveland, England(not Ohio!) and Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.  |
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Post by alanl on Jan 15, 2014 0:08:10 GMT
January 14...Port Hardy, British Columbia and Larvik, Norway.  King Haakon VII of Norway.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 15, 2014 3:01:29 GMT
January 14
From Detroit, Michigan in 1946. The 1c green, perf. 11x10.5 Washington (Scott 804) was issued April 25, 1938 and the 2c rose carmine, perf. 11x10.5 Allegory of Victory (Scott 907) was issued on this date in 1943. 
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Post by alanl on Jan 15, 2014 23:57:14 GMT
For January 15...two English towns, Bournemouth and Pershore.  Also Whitewood, Sask.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 16, 2014 14:05:46 GMT
January 16Two first day covers from the United Nations, New York in 1968 that were issued to honor the UN Secretariat. The multicolored, perf. 11.5 stamps were designed by Rashid-ud Din and printed by Courvosier, S.A. Switzerland. The 6c is Scott 181 and the 13c is Scott 182.  
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Post by rod222 on Jan 16, 2014 16:46:22 GMT
It's also interesting, the cover does not appear to have been opened.
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Post by vasia on Jan 16, 2014 17:16:11 GMT
Rod,
the cover has been slit open at top (bottom of my lower scan).
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Post by alanl on Jan 17, 2014 0:09:03 GMT
It`s January 16th in London, England.  |
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Post by rod222 on Jan 17, 2014 1:54:47 GMT
Rod, the cover has been slit open at top (bottom of my lower scan). Nice work, addressee! I open my covers via scalpel, on the end edge, I think it is a "good manners" thing I have I cringe when I see, in movies, people opening, nay, ripping asunder, envelopes with their thumb. Are those few seconds saved mean anything? Manners are curious, when living in Thailand, you never patted anyone on the head, and diners eating Pizzas with a knife and fork. The "Bankok Post" always had a weekly column "Miss Manners" regarding etiquette. Interesting, the postal clerk has struck that cover 4 times, and the 1893 is only visible (to me) on one occasion. |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 17, 2014 12:55:41 GMT
January 17Postmarked Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on this date in 1956, this unaddressed first day cover for the 3c bright carmine, perf. 10.5x11 Benjamin Franklin issue (Scott 1073). The stamp commemorated the 260th anniversary of the birth of Franklin and was designed by Charles R. Chickering. 
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