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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 30, 2014 8:51:11 GMT
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jan 30, 2014 11:17:12 GMT
Can you explain "Via Pomerio" is that Rome? if so, why? In Italian, "Via" can mean "street" or "road" as well as "by way of". That should be a street address, Pomerio Road. Ryan Gee, it's nice to have you around  The Rijeka Synagogue is in the Via del Pomerio. Well done you. |
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Post by vasia on Jan 30, 2014 11:27:41 GMT
I managed to locate a street named Pomerio in Fiume, present-day Rijeka, Croatia. I think that solves our issue.  P.S Well, it seems I wrote the above as Rod had already located it! |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 30, 2014 18:02:07 GMT
January 30
From Zvikovec, Czechoslovak Republic in 1939. Today Zvikovec is in Rokycany District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. 
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Post by stampgeezer on Jan 30, 2014 18:34:03 GMT
Jan 30th, 1939. Less than 2 months until Germany swallowed up that part of Czechoslovakia not surrendered in 1938 by the imfamous Munich agreement.
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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 31, 2014 8:54:26 GMT
January 31st. 1923, Sidney, Ohio. Steinle Stove Store. Scott #499 or #500 (cannot check watermark), perf 11, flat plate, [either Type I. or Ia.?]  |
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Post by alanl on Feb 1, 2014 0:00:56 GMT
January 31st in Orsta, Norway and York, England.  |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 1, 2014 0:15:36 GMT
"CFC" ?
Any ideas?
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Post by alanl on Feb 1, 2014 4:29:54 GMT
I thought you might ask...Culler Facer Cancellers.
Culls cards and letters by size..etc.
Made by Toshiba.
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Post by rod222 on Feb 1, 2014 7:16:21 GMT
The Toshiba "CFC" OCR = Optical Character Recognition.  ..................and before the Toshiba "CFC"  |
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Post by codeye on Feb 1, 2014 10:44:44 GMT
The Toshiba "CFC" OCR = Optical Character Recognition. ..................and before the Toshiba "CFC" You can keep them machines, dreading the day they bring in packet/parcel sorting machines into my place and put me out of a job. |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 1, 2014 11:20:10 GMT
"You can keep them machines, dreading the day they bring in packet/parcel sorting machines into my place and put me out of a job." Yes, my post was a veiled illustration of the advance of "progress" It was actually intended to support people like you  |
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Post by vasia on Feb 1, 2014 13:49:34 GMT
comment by codeye (not by rod)"You can keep them machines, dreading the day they bring in packet/parcel sorting machines into my place and put me out of a job." I do not want to get too involved in such a discussion, but this comment bears a strong element of elitism. The progress of humanity's productive forces has reached a level that should allow every human being to have a full-paying job with fewer working hours. The substitution of postal workers by sorting machines should not mean that these people remain jobless, thus blaming the machines for their fate. To turn the tables around, the large majority of upper managerial personnel, especially in the financial sector, are totally unproductive individuals, BUT they get royally compensated for their "work". |
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Post by alanl on Feb 2, 2014 0:02:24 GMT
For February 1 we have Colchester, England and Utrecht, Nederland.  |
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Post by vasia on Feb 2, 2014 11:45:27 GMT
February 2, 1923
Adversity cover originating from the village (dorf) Voldeinfurst, Kuban oblast to the town of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, through Millerovo, then in Don oblast (see ОБЛ.В.Д in pmk of 2/2) and Moscow (machine postmark of 6/2). Franked at 1.5 R (=150R of 1922) with 30x5k Arms imperf and perf. The deficiency from the applicable 3.5R rate is 2R, so due is assessed at 5R 50k, i.e 2R deficiency + 3.5R registration. The deficiency is noted with an unclear oval and a large “T”. In Canada a large black “13” handstamp indicated the postage-due in cents.
(Wohldenfurst – Alexanderfeld was a Mennonite colony founded in 1862. A number of Mennonite settlers left the Kuban for Canada during 1924-1925, for locations like Leader which was formed in 1907 by German immigrants from southern Russia. The name of the addressee – Friesen – is a typical name among those German settlers. The nearest railway station to Wohldenfurst was at Bogoslovskaya [as indicated in the sender's address at the lower part of the front]. The letter was either transported north up to Millerovo by train [without being cancelled?] or was hand-carried to Millerovo and then dropped in the mailstream. Interestingly, a few hundred Mennonites resided in Millerovo).
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 2, 2014 23:09:10 GMT
February 2
Two first day covers for the Range Conservation issue postmarked Salt Lake City, Utah in 1961. The 4c, perf. 11, blue, slate & brown orange stamp (Scott 1176) was issued on this date to stress the importance of range conservation and to commemorate the meeting of the American Society of Range Management. Featured on the stamp is the Society's emblem, "The Trail Boss" from a drawing by Charles M. Russell. The stamp, a Giori press printing, was designed by Rudolph Wendelin.   This stampless folded letter was postmarked in Pekin, Illinois in 1844. The 30mm black CDS was in use in Pekin between 1838 and 1855. The manuscript 12.5 denotes the 80-150 mile zone rate for a single letter that was in effect from May 1, 1816 to June 30, 1845. 
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Post by alanl on Feb 3, 2014 0:16:03 GMT
February 2 at South Devon, England and Blindern, Norway.  Also Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia. The Russian version is on the bottom. The town is now part of the Ukraine.  |
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Post by alanl on Feb 3, 2014 23:54:15 GMT
Another pair today. Sortland, Norway and Cheltenham, England.  |
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Post by alanl on Feb 5, 2014 0:00:32 GMT
February 4th in Colchester, England and Telemark, a county in Norway.  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 5, 2014 3:38:03 GMT
February 4The American Stampless Cover Catalog, Vol. 1 (5th ed., 1997) indicates that the 32mm black circular town postmark on this stampless cover was in use during 1854. The1/2 oz. single letter rate in effect from June 30, 1851 through 30 March, 1855 was 3 cents not exceeding 3,000 miles if prepaid and 5 cents if not prepaid (as in the case of this cover). Effective April 1, 1855, prepayment on domestic mail became compulsory.  This set of two stamps was issued in 1963 to commemorate the UN Development Decade and the UN Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas held in Geneva fro February 4-20. The stamps were designed by Rashid-ud Din and printed by Courvoisier S.A., La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The 5c pale green, maroon, dark blue & Prussian blue stamp is Scott 114; the 11c yellow, maroon, dark blue & Prussian blue stamp with French inscription is Scott 115. 
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Post by vasia on Feb 5, 2014 7:58:06 GMT
February 5, 1940
Cover from АМАНГЕЛЪДЫ (Amangeldi), Kustanai oblast (Kazakh SSR) to the Prosecutor General of the USSR in Moscow, 13/2/1940. Registered with handstamped registration and franked correctly at 60k with two 30k definitives. Bilingual postmark of origin and registration handstamp (Cyrillic-Kazakh/modified Latin)
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Post by alanl on Feb 5, 2014 23:54:29 GMT
On February 5th at Hertogenbosch, Netherlands and Leuven, Belgium.  And Surrey, British Columbia.  |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 6, 2014 15:20:28 GMT
Nice to see Georgian stamps on cover, a first for me.
Also, a first, this cover explains to me how a cover can get an offset, when going through the roller canceller.
I had seen offsets on GB covers, and never quite figured how it happened.
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Post by vasia on Feb 6, 2014 18:16:55 GMT
Nice to see Georgian stamps on cover, a first for me. Also, a first, this cover explains to me how a cover can get an offset, when going through the roller canceller. I had seen offsets on GB covers, and never quite figured how it happened. Rod, Georgian covers are outside my collecting area proper. They usually fetch high prices, but I managed to get this at an affordable price and it spiced up my Soviet cover collection. I had noticed the reverse datestamp on the roller canceller, but I also have no explanation!  |
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Post by rod222 on Feb 6, 2014 23:23:20 GMT
Yes, when we discussed roller machine cancels in a previous post,
it was obvious from the image Ryan posted, that the cover gets "pinched" between two rollers when advancing the cover
through the machine.
If there is a gap in the cover feed, and the host roller becomes soft, it accepts ink from the die,
and when the next cover arrives, it gets the reverse datestamp.
I think Ryan's image showed the roller is of vertical format, and it all became obvious.
You can see why later on we had phosphor tagging to have the cover rotate to suit the stamp
Your cover has actually gone through upside down.
At that time I guess it relied on manual orientation feed.
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Post by alanl on Feb 6, 2014 23:45:58 GMT
Gent(Ghent), Belgium on February 6th, 1987.  |
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