JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Oct 17, 2020 21:50:12 GMT
I don't know much about them in general, but I liked this example.
Post any you may wish to share, and something about them if you are knowledgeable. 
Google translate tells me
POSTAL CHECKS REQUEST THE OPENING OF A CURRENT ACCOUNT
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 18, 2020 8:48:33 GMT
In my grand-mother's stash of envelopes where she kept her stamps (hence the red crayon writing on them), I found a few examples. The first one is this cover mailed on 10 June 1958 from La Rochelle and with a machine cancel advertising postal bonds:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 18, 2020 8:54:03 GMT
Another example, mailed January 2 nd, 1958 from Asnières-sur-Seine, with the cancel advertising the new telephone information number (in the old style "three first letters of a word + 4 digits"):  More tomorrow... |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Oct 18, 2020 15:12:42 GMT
A self-adhesive from the 2009 PACA Collector series with a slogan cancellation from St.Remy de Provence.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Oct 19, 2020 18:17:45 GMT
A slogan cancel from September 1938 promoting the Caen fair and show,held in August and September.Postmark is from Caen railway station.  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 19, 2020 20:14:24 GMT
Two examples of touristic machine cancels, from the same source as yesterday. The first one is mailed from Cherbourg on March 28 th, 1955, and advertises its port and leisure activities. La Saire and La Hague are two neighbourhoods of Cherbourg.  The second one is from Granville, mailed on December 28 th, 1957. Granville is the first seaside town north of Brittany above Mont-Saint-Michel, hence the cancel advertising the largest tides in Europe.  |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Oct 19, 2020 21:36:01 GMT
I believe the French call such pictorial cancel slogans , “ flammes”.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 19, 2020 22:41:40 GMT
I believe the French call such pictorial cancel slogans , “ flammes”. They do. Since it is not my collecting forte, the term had escaped me. |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 20, 2020 20:02:45 GMT
Two more France machine cancel from my stash: Top, mailed from Paris VII e Arrondissement on January 7 th, 1958, with the machine cancel celebrating the Bérets Rouges Parachutistes Coloniaux (Red Berets, Colonial Parachutist troops). Bottom, mailed from Champagnole (Jura) on December 31 st, 1957, with a local tourism banner.  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 22, 2020 19:39:06 GMT
Two more examples of French machine cancels from my stash: Top row, mailed from Paris (postmark reads "Tri and Distribution N o16": sorting and distribution center #16), on July 26 th, 1958, with the machine cancel advertising the Peruvian exhibit at the Petit Palais in Paris. The cover is mailed to Denneville-Plage, a small seaside village in Normandy where my family (still) has a vacation house. The village is just across from the island of Jersey, which you can see on good weather. And, as is said in Normandy, the weather is good several times a day! Second row, mailed from Rethel (Ardennes) on January 8 th, 1958, with a local touristic cancel.  |
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Oct 22, 2020 19:47:06 GMT
Thanks to all for playing!
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 23, 2020 16:51:50 GMT
A last pair of French machine cancels: Top one: mailed locally from Asnières-sur-Seine on May 31 st, 1961, with a machine cancel advertising the same telephone information service we saw earlier. Bottom one: mourning cover mailed from Carentan (Manche) on May 13 th, 1958, with a local touristic machine cancel  |
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