Romania: Postmarks

WERT , thank you for your help with this. Also, note the following: Romanian Stamps Definitives of 1858-1864

I think what you found is this specific set of early issues from Romania but I don't feel it answers my question quite. See below from the above link:

"The design features the Arms of Moldavia, with that being a "auroch or bull head, with a star above". The denomination is contained within a post horn. The inscription reads ПОРТО СКРИСОРИ (PORTO SCRISOREI), Romanian Cyrillic for "Postage to be paid by the recipient". This inscription is actually a mistake. The inscription should have read FRANCO in Cyrillic letters instead of PORTO in Cyrillic letters, which would have changed the meaning to "Postage to be paid by the sender". The payment of postage obviously happened when the stamp was affixed to the letter envelope by the sender. These new stamps were only valid for postal use within the Principality of Moldavia."

So, is this later postmark from the 1920s a postage paid postmark with the word Scrisori meaning sender instead of writer as google translated it?

eggdog, thank you. I was kind of thinking along the same lines and, yes, what an unusual place to put this type of mark. I am now trying to find other examples of this by searching for Romanian postmarks but no luck so far.

As a native speaker of Romanian, I can tell you this:
Scrisoare = (correspondence) letter. Not alphabet letter, of course.
Scrisori is the plural of scrisoare.
Scrisorei looks like the archaic form of Scrisorii, the dative case of Scrisoare. (Whose payment? Of the Scrisoare. A cui plata? A Scrisorii).
Plata scrisorii = the payment of the (scrisoare).

There is no locality named Scrisori on "God's Green Earth", or on Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot". 

"The Bull's Head stamps" are, of course, a misnomer in the philatelic world.
Bull means male, in many species.

Cap de Bour.

The species depicted is aurochs (bour, in Romanian), not even auroch.
Not bou, which means castrated (domestic) bull. <-cattle.

"The aurochs (Bos primigenius) (/ˈɔːrɒks/ or /ˈaʊrɒks/), also known as aurochsen, urus or ure, is a species of large wild cattle that inhabited Asia, Europe and North Africa. Whilst the wild subspecies, including the nominal subspecies Bos primigenius primigenius, is extinct, extant domestic cattle are considered subspecies of the aurochs. Further discussion and use of the term "aurochs" in this article will, for simplicity, refer only to the extinct wild subspecies unless otherwise specified. Bos primigenius primigenius survived in Europe until 1627, when the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest in Poland."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

Hi darkormex
I don't collect Romanian stamps, but I recently purchased the work "Stampilografie Postala" by Kiriac Dragomir.
I couldn't find the exact cancellation on your stamp, but I think it's part of category B5 cancellations.
At the top is the name of the city and at the bottom is the category of postal services used:
ZIARE = Newspapers
POSTE RESTANTE = Posts Remaining
TAXA de PLATA = Payment Fee
Exped.Scris. (=Expeditii Scrisori) = Letter dispatches
I hope it helps you.





I've read some of your posts from the Romania sub-board, but I don't know if you haven't already found out the answers.
I also have the work "Catalogul Marcilor Postale Romanesti" by Kiriac Dragomir, 1974 edition, where there is enough information about the classic Romanian stamps, but as I wrote before, I am not familiar with Romanian stamps.
If you still have questions from your old posts, it would be good to update them so that I can try to answer you.
Greetings
George

Sc#208 A44 10b  REMBOURSEMENT =Payment.