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Post by alanl on Jan 18, 2014 0:13:05 GMT
The 17th of January in Stithians, England and Kobenhavn, Denmark.  Here we have the 17th of January on an envelope stamp from the Karsh definitives of 1953. Penticton, British Columbia.  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jan 18, 2014 23:10:56 GMT
(serial “c”)
Not seen this reference before. Is this how you refer to the hammer ID? (eg ref to a particular cancelling hammer in the cancelling room)
Thanks.
Great cover, home made with what looks like sealed with private mucilage. (black blob)
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 18, 2014 23:21:47 GMT
January 18From Breckenridge, Texas in 1946. The stamp is the 3c dark blue, perf. 11x10.5 Texas statehood issue (Scott 938; 29Dec1945). 
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Post by alanl on Jan 19, 2014 0:09:12 GMT
January 18th, 1962. King Frederick IX of Denmark but 8 years younger than yesterday. Looks the same.  |
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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 19, 2014 2:01:37 GMT
January 18th. 1901. Scott #279B, 2¢ Washington profile/type IV. It wears a Philadelphia "Station S" Flag Cancellation. (I would like to know more about this cancel actually)  |
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Post by vasia on Jan 19, 2014 7:07:00 GMT
(serial “c”) Not seen this reference before. Is this how you refer to the hammer ID? (eg ref to a particular cancelling hammer in the cancelling room) Thanks. Rod, my reference to serial "c" is indeed to the Russian letter used to designate the particular cancelling device (at around 4 o'clock of the c.d.s). My understanding is that the post-office used specific canceller designations for specific functions. A guess (though I have no proof) would be that this "high" serial corresponded to the Russian word for "insured" which starts with a Cyrillic "c" (English letter "s") and was used for cancelling money letters. Money letters from this period are hard to come by. Their function had been largely taken over by postal money transfer/orders. |
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Post by rod222 on Jan 19, 2014 7:24:13 GMT
Re : Money letters from this period are hard to come by. Their function had been largely taken over by postal money transfer/orders.
I see, thanks Vasia.
I had long thought money transfer was a modern thing, but not so, and borne out by the proliferation of "MANDATE" money order
cancellations I get on my early Romanian.
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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 19, 2014 9:22:47 GMT
January 19th. 1904. 2¢ Scott #301 Washington profile, double-line watermark, flat plate, perf 12, EKU- January 17th, 1903. 
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Post by jamesw on Jan 19, 2014 14:21:22 GMT
Today is my sister, Linda's birthday (Happy Birthday Linda!) She won't see this, but what the heck. This letter (previously posted - no pun intended) was postmarked on this day in 1859, exactly 100 years before the big event. Double split ring cancel (aka broken circle) with manuscript date.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 19, 2014 18:15:57 GMT
January 19This block of four of the 2c dark blue gray Frank Lloyd Wright issue (Scott 1280, June 8, 1966) was postmarked in 1974 at the Arizona Philatelic Exhibition Station in Scottsdale, Arizona. It also bears a blue United Nations show cancel. The dedication on the show cachet refers to Wright's desert home, Taliesin West.  This "Spooners Delight" post card, postmarked in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1909, has a 1c blue green Franklin from the 1902-03 issue (Scott 300). 
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Post by rod222 on Jan 19, 2014 18:25:05 GMT
"indistinct London receiver"
Vasia
that is just a standard London single ring "Hooded" postmark London EC (East Central) with "Registered" in the hood.
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Post by rod222 on Jan 19, 2014 21:38:52 GMT
January 19, 1927
Cover from Kiev, bilingual Russian/Ukrainian cancel to Huddersfield, England, indistinct London receiver. Registered and franked correctly at 28k with 20k + 8k perf.12 workers. There is a transit Ukrainian/French train station postmark of КИЇВ ЗАЛІЗ / KIEW GARE cds of 19/1/1927.
"Hooded" or "Scroll" Single ring, Registered Pmk, 4 years earlier (red ink) London EC, ("X" is either the hammer ID, or a Fleuron).   |
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Post by alanl on Jan 20, 2014 0:07:53 GMT
For January 19th...Reading, England.  |
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Post by rod222 on Jan 20, 2014 2:17:00 GMT
For January 19th...Reading, England. There's a new one......."MLO" probably obvious, but would someone care to confirm = Main Letter Office? |
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Post by alanl on Jan 20, 2014 2:59:50 GMT
MLO....mechanised letter office...I think.
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Post by rod222 on Jan 20, 2014 11:27:23 GMT
January 20, 1923
Postcard from “МОСКОВСКОЕ Ж.Д.П.О НА КУРСК ВОКЗАЛЬ” (Moscow Railway post-office at the Kursk station) to Petrograd, 26/1 (serial ц). The card is unfranked – the correct postage rate being 50k. It is assessed postage-due with an oval "doplatit" mark and handwritten “1p 50k” charge, i.e deficit (50k) + registration (1 ruble). 2 additional postmarks of Petrograd of 27/1/1923.
Harrison Fisher Postcard (sans copyright printing, I wonder if that is a copied postcard) Harrison Fisher Postcards here, ( "love lyrics" is within the thumbnails) www.angelpig.com/fisher/pc.html |
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Post by stampgeezer on Jan 20, 2014 23:50:28 GMT
Jan 20, 1908. Cheney, Wa., to Sprague, Wa.
2 nice clear postmarks. I like them that way.
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Post by alanl on Jan 21, 2014 0:09:52 GMT
January 20th in Toronto, Ontario.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 21, 2014 0:43:14 GMT
January 20In 1965 it was inauguration day in the U.S. This event cover bears a 5c blue & red, perf. 11 Flag over White House (Scott 1208; 9Jan1963). 
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Post by vasia on Jan 21, 2014 13:41:26 GMT
January 21, 1919
Small cover from Simbirsk to (probably) Serbiny (Serbinai) in Vilenskaya guberniya (present-day Lithuania) through Moscow, 22/1/1919. Registered with faint numerator handstamp on front. Franked at the registered domestic letter rate of 50k with 2x15 + 2x10k Arms.
From 1/1/1919 until 15/8/1921 ordinary domestic correspondence (postcards and letters) was free of charge in Soviet Russia, in order to facilitate communications within the population. Registered correspondence, however, paid both the registration charge and the proper weight rate.
Since mid-December 1918, a short-lived Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic had been formed with its center in Vilnius and with its territory covering a significant portion of south-east Lithuania. It is unclear whether Serbiny, to the north of Kaunas, was under Soviet control. If not, the letter might have never reached its destination, hence the absence of a receiving cancel. The fact that the letter was franked at the domestic rate might suggest that the sender thought that Serbiny was under Soviet control, but during those turbulent times one sometimes finds international items posted at the domestic rates and accepted without postage-due.
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Post by alanl on Jan 22, 2014 0:03:21 GMT
January 21st in two English towns, Bodmin and Chingford.  And Eidsvagnese, Norway.  |
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Post by alanl on Jan 22, 2014 0:23:07 GMT
Here`s a little present for Rod:  |
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Post by alanl on Jan 22, 2014 23:55:01 GMT
Here`s an old one from New Zealand, January 22, 1912.  January 22 at Somerset, Manitoba. Might be a bit cold this time of year!  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 23, 2014 13:20:18 GMT
January 23
On this date in 1967 the United Nations issued two stamps commemorating its Development Program. The perf. 12.5 stamps were designed byt Olav S. Mathiesen and printed by Courvoisier, S.A. The 5c green, yellow, purple and orange stamp is Scott 164; the 11c blue, chocolate, light green and orange stamp with French inscription is Scott 165.  
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Post by alanl on Jan 23, 2014 23:59:47 GMT
January 23, 1976 in Bedford, England.  January 23, 1992 in both Kirkenes and Maloy, Norway.  |
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Post by Ryan on Jan 24, 2014 9:18:42 GMT
January 24, 1986 was a sad day in Nixa, MO (ZIP code 65714). A person unconcerned with us stamp collectors carelessly ripped this nice $5 definitive from the sheet, destroying some perforations in the process. Oh well, another one for the "it's junk but I'll still keep it around" pile.  Ryan |
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Post by vasia on Jan 24, 2014 15:06:38 GMT
(After two glaring gaps  in my postmark calendar, I am continuing my contributions) January 24, 1939
Cover from the village of Oust-Labinskaya, Krasnodar (in the Northern Caucasus) to Geneva, 31/1/1939, addressed to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Registered with standard, but very rare “R” label of origin (Az.- Tsch. [= Azov – Black Sea] kraja). Franked correctly at 1R 30k with 1R Airmail stamp (Scott C24) and definitives.
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in my postmark calendar, I am continuing my contributions)