blaamand
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Post by blaamand on May 28, 2019 7:58:19 GMT
alanl - That's some very neat postmarks on the Machins. Perfect examples how postmarks makes even the most common stamps interesting and attractive!!
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Post by stamphinger on May 29, 2019 17:33:02 GMT
A page of Canadian town specific cancels, Toronto, in this instance. SH  |
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Post by alanl on May 29, 2019 18:17:06 GMT
Some more British cancels.  |
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Post by stamphinger on May 30, 2019 12:15:42 GMT
From my Canadian collection, a page of Vancouver, BC, cancels. SH  |
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Post by alanl on May 31, 2019 20:30:22 GMT
A few more Machin cancels.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 1, 2019 17:14:30 GMT
Two more pages of Canadian cancels, these first days of issue. SH   |
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Post by alanl on Jun 3, 2019 19:04:30 GMT
British cancels on Machins.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 11, 2019 22:30:04 GMT
I've been sorting a backlog of cancels and laying out pages for some of them. Here's a page of Copenhagen cancels with stamps in place. It's relatively easy to fill a page with Copenhagen postmarks if there is a good supply of Danish stamps. Kudos to the Danish postal employees of the past for producing some nice bullseyes. SH  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 12, 2019 21:17:42 GMT
A second page resulting from from last weeks sort of cancels, this one on Swedish stamps. Sweden is another country that can be counted upon to produce clear, full cancels on stamps. SH  |
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Post by alanl on Jun 13, 2019 18:01:28 GMT
British cancels on Machins.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 13, 2019 23:04:50 GMT
A third page resulting from my recent cancel sort. This is my first page of Jamaican cancels. Jamaica is a smaller geographical entity, not as many letter writers and senders, just fewer stamps to select from. It took awhile to find a sufficient number of decent cancels to draw up a page and some of these are pretty weak strikes. Unless I am working with blocks of four or more, I don't lay out a page until I have at least six stamps. Seven and nine stamps always work well and that is what I strive for. SH  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 15, 2019 16:55:55 GMT
A page of Budapest cancels. They are easy to find and some of them quite attractive when on larger stamps. SH  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 17, 2019 23:07:12 GMT
And here, at last, is the last page I drew from my big cancel sort last week, cancels on Swiss stamps. SH  |
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Post by alanl on Jun 22, 2019 19:31:28 GMT
Another 9 British cancels.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 22, 2019 20:26:52 GMT
A page of French postmarks. It has been difficult for me to find decent French cancels. Not that there are not well placed strikes, but rather the canceling devices frequently seem under inked. The center stamp on this page is, however, an exception. It appears clear and about 97% complete, thanks to the length of the stamp. It is just a little too low, but otherwise near perfect. SH   |
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kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jun 22, 2019 23:42:45 GMT
Stamphinger’s frustration hits a nerve of sympathy with my Swiss collecting.
Starting in the 1860s, Swiss postal rules stress tying the stamp to cover, so well-centered cancels are only a little less scarce than hen’s teeth. Well-centered isn’t just rare, but usually a freak/mistake. The exceptions usually are multiples, which often get a brilliantly centered strike. Am I making a mistake, stressing tidy cancels like every other country, searching for tidy Swiss/Geneva cancels that fit an album nicely?
Here's an example. The clerk at the post window obviously thought it looked perfect:
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 23, 2019 13:10:51 GMT
Hi kasvik:
Yes, the example has excellent cancels -- for a cover collector! Another of my frustrations is the cancel that is well centered, but has weak or missing letters/numerals in the town or dates. Then there are the postal clerks who never clean the cancel dials. In my experience, Latin American countries are notorious for "messy" cancels. All we can do is keep looking for those well centered, fully inked bullseyes.
SH
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Jul 3, 2019 7:47:30 GMT
Thanks to all keeping this thread live - lots of marvelous strikes! stamphinger - Brilliant plan  I am always on the lookout myself. However I can accept strikes even if they are not fully inked or 100% centred as well - particularly when and if the postmark is of some kind of curiosity in postal history. The stamps below are of that category - forerunners from Lebanon. Obviously these are very common French 'sage' stamps - however postmarked in French PO's in Beirut - which makes them not all that common after all.  French 'sage' stamps used in Beirut - Lebanon Forerunners |
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Post by alanl on Jul 5, 2019 19:28:15 GMT
Some more British cancels.  |
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renden
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Post by renden on Jul 5, 2019 23:48:46 GMT
6-VIICanada FDC - Plains Indians - Scott # 563a Jul 6, 1972 - 8c multi 562-563 with Belgium stampmark 1972
FDC with block (4) bought by my late dad
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 11, 2019 23:27:55 GMT
Another page of cancels on African stamps. Not much to say about them, except the cancels are nicely centered for the most part. Page laid out mostly by size of stamps. Don StampHinger  |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Jul 13, 2019 14:49:41 GMT
Football World Cup - England 1966 Postmark: RYDE 14 JNE 1966 ISLE OF WIGHT Going trough UK stamps there is a lot of wavy postmarks, hate it. But then something like this show up   Michel GB 422x Scott GB 458 Yvert et Tellier GB 441 Stanley Gibbons GB 693 AFA number GB 416 |
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 17, 2019 2:51:41 GMT
Norway's postal employees can be counted upon to produce clear, neat, well-center bullseye cancels. Here is a page of Norwegian cancels from my cancels on stamps collections. Don the StampHinger  |
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Post by alanl on Jul 18, 2019 23:25:48 GMT
More postmarks on Machins.  |
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Post by renden on Jul 19, 2019 12:46:46 GMT
Germany Sc 393 - nice postmark going to a friend in Norway blaamand....when I have enough accumulated for a mailing - as I do not collect postmarks.....only for firends  |
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 20, 2019 12:31:53 GMT
Interesting postmark. I have not seen a Berlin postmark with a Roman numeral at the bottom of the dial. Anyone know what it signifies?
Don StampHinger
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renden
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Post by renden on Jul 20, 2019 13:07:13 GMT
Interesting postmark. I have not seen a Berlin postmark with a Roman numeral at the bottom of the dial. Anyone know what it signifies? Don StampHinger Maybe Jon blaamand can answer this......since it will be his stamp (I keep my promises) !! René |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Jul 20, 2019 15:06:17 GMT
Thanks René, your too kind 😊
Sorry, I haven't studied these German postmarks yet, so I don't know what 'VIII' signifies. Maybe simply counter number / clerk at that particular postoffice that day, but that's purely a guess from my end. I would be curious to know of someone more knowledgeable can enlighten us 😊
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 21, 2019 11:37:57 GMT
Could well be. I was thinking maybe the number of the cancel device, but then it seems we should be seeing cancels from the other seven and similar cancels from other Berlin stations. I'll have to check my Berlin cancels and see if I can find some other examples.
I hope someone comes up with a definitive answer.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 21, 2019 21:53:13 GMT
Well, I looked at the Berlin cancels I have and was unable to find another with a Roman numeral at the bottom of the dial. My sample is, however, very small. What does seem to be consistent is that there is an identifier of some kind there. Below are scans of four stamps with Berlin cancels in the 1930s. They have a star on the left, a numeral, albeit Arabic, or a letter, and another symbol on the right that also looks like letters. These may be, as blaamand suggests, a postal clerks personal identifiers. The same style of cancel seems to have been used a decade earlier in the 1920s, and even earlier on one or two examples I have. At the end of my search I did not find what looked like another Roman numeral, and neither did I find anything that could be stated as a generalization about these cancels. The markings remain interesting, but still a mystery. Don StampHinger Stamps canceled at Berlin in the 1930s   Berlin cancels from the 1920s   |
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