cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Sept 1, 2023 10:15:28 GMT
Lleida, Catalonia, 1986. 200 years of the death of Gaspar de Portolà (Balaguer, Catalonia, 1717 - Lleida, 1786). Leader of the expedition (Catalan Volunteers) that started the European setlement of "Upper California" (US California, nowadays) on late XVIII century. They founded cities like: Monterrey (1770), San Diego (1769), Los Angeles, San Francisco...
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Post by dorincard on Sept 1, 2023 11:52:02 GMT
 Grey Wolf non-traditional maxicard. I made it with a superb greeting (folded) card. I designed the wolf personalized postage stamp at Zazzle. I obtained from Bill Porter the ultra-rare PICTORIAL postmark with a howling wolf(/coyote/coywolf?) MPP (Mailer's Postmark Permit, see USPS Form 3615 for precanceled stamps, not for bulk mailers). |
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swvl
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Post by swvl on Sept 1, 2023 21:13:46 GMT
Linda's post on the Pictorial Postmarks: Canada thread reminded me to share this cover that my kids and I made for a cat-related pictorial postmark offered this summer by the town of Catskill, New York. The postmark was presented in connection with Cat'N Around Catskill, an annual public art show that fills the streets with all kinds of eccentrically decorated cat statues by local artists. I've never been there, but it looks fun! My kids wrote the lettering and helped arrange the stickers on this cover, and I took care of the mail-in postmark request. 
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Sept 7, 2023 6:46:36 GMT
September 7th 2005, el Pont de Suert, Catalan Pyrenees (250 km NW from Barcelona). 50 years of the new church.
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Sept 20, 2023 10:29:05 GMT
Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona's main feast. Today
Barcelona: Human towers. A very poupular Catalan sport/cultural activity. Today
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Oct 12, 2023 8:56:29 GMT
Being today Columbus Day, I'm showing this Barcelona pm with C. Columbus monument in our city. The stamp, also features this monument. Used in the Spain & Americas Stamp Exhibition, Espamer 1977.
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 21, 2023 15:33:48 GMT
This pictorial cancel is available at this philatelic centre in Vienna: Österreichische Post AGSammler-Service Steinheilgasse 1 1210 Wien AUSTRIA  I have a feeling that it depicts the cityscape of Vienna. Maybe Ryan has a clearer image of the same cancel? |
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 21, 2023 15:49:13 GMT
Steve, The 6 pictorial postmarks of Japan you posted in 2013 seems to be mostly fukei-in that are available at certain post offices for a long period of time. Only the first one on the list that commemorates the 52th Annual Rotary International Convention (held in 1961) seems to be a first day of issue postmark. As I recounted in my previous post,   These 'Autumn's Greetings' (秋のグリーティング) postmarks were obtained in Yokohama City of the Kanagawa Prefecture. Notice the bird symbol in the cancel. It's in fact a dove that only appears on the first day postmarks (i.e. 24 August was the first day these pictorial postmarks were available). The dove might have represented Japan Post or postal agency or something else. It's not exactly known why a dove, but I find it a nice coincidence with the dove representing peace in Western arts. In recent years, a bird / dove shape would appear in a pictorial cancel that is the first day of issue postmark. But I don't know starting when this bird / dove imagery began to be associated with the first day of issue in Japan. |
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Post by Ryan on Oct 21, 2023 23:10:16 GMT
This pictorial cancel is available at this philatelic centre in Vienna: ... I have a feeling that it depicts the cityscape of Vienna. Maybe Ryan has a clearer image of the same cancel? My example came to me with a clean cancel - you can see the ferris wheel which is almost impossible to recognize on your example. It's the lumpy stamp that caused that problem, I think!  Ryan |
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 22, 2023 6:13:13 GMT
Ryan -- Oh I used peace stamps! Did you notice that the date of the cancellation is 21 September -- World Peace Day?
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swvl
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Post by swvl on Nov 4, 2023 0:43:54 GMT
Here are a few more Date Meets ZIP covers that have come back to me recently! 72023 / July 20, 2023 / Cabot, AR  72123 / July 21, 2023 / Patterson, AR  92123 / September 21, 2023 / Serra Mesa - San Diego, CA  |
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 17, 2023 17:40:54 GMT
Another one of the extra long Belgium stamps, this one Sc. 1477 a 1993 stamp commemorating Antwerp with a slogan cancel proclaiming it as the cultural city of Europe. Don StampHinger  |
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Dec 14, 2023 9:55:52 GMT
Barcelona, pictorial turistic postmark, showing one of the two lodges on Park Güell's main entrance
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Dec 14, 2023 10:18:17 GMT
From Poznan, Poland, this cancel literally says ‘Poland solidarizes with Ukraine’ in both Polish and Ukraininan. It was one of the several cancels offered in Poland at the beginning of the war and the only one that is still available for people to request.  |
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Dec 19, 2023 15:23:06 GMT
German pictorial cancellation that commemorates the 375th anniversary of Peace of Westphalia was made available for 4 weeks this October-November:  I was hoping to get this cancel on my World Peace Day maxicards showing the 2023 Europa peace stamps. But it seems (well I am pretty sure) that my postmarking request arrived too late, after the 4-week time slot during which this cancel was available, so I didn't get my maxicards back. However, someone I don't know used the return envelope I had provided to send me the following nice cover with the cancel I wanted:  I am not sure if the person worked for the German philatelic centre or not, but it's really kind of him/her to send me this cover. This is actually the second time a German did me a special favour -- the first was with my World Peace Day maxicards that show another cancel commemorating the 375th anniversary of Peace of Westphalia: I had prepared those 2 maxicards as regular postcards that were supposed to be sent naked. But for reason I don't know, someone put those 2 cards into an envelope and franked it with sufficient postage stamps that I didn't provide. It was a total surprise to receive the mail. Judging from my experience of biking across Germany and dealing with their philately staff, I really find the Germans very friendly, even though they are not usually known for their friendliness (people like to say the Germans are punctual / strict instead of friendly). |
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Post by Linda on Apr 16, 2024 13:13:16 GMT
From Austria, a bunny pictorial cancel that was available for 2 weeks.  |
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Post by Linda on Apr 16, 2024 13:13:57 GMT
From Costa Rica:  |
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Apr 23, 2024 8:55:14 GMT
Stamp exhibition of the Cercle Filatèlic i Numismàtic de Barcelona at Catalonia's Governement Palace in Barcelona. April 23rd 1980.
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