WWI - Belgium Armoured Car Division in Russia
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008: Belgium, Censored mail, Field Post, Military, Postal History, Postcards, Postmarks, RussiaMichael Barden. In August 1914, Belgian Lieutenant Charles Henkart, put his two armoured Minerva cars at the Army's disposal. Cockerill & Co (Engineers) in Hoboken had added some armour plating and a Hotchkiss machine gun to each as shown below. Despite ...
Notes on the History of Post Offices in Pyrenees Shire
Thursday, June 5th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Post Offices, Postmarks, VictoriaAlex Stoneman. Presented to a meeting of the Avoca Historical Society on 16 April 2005. Imagine you are in NSW and the date is 1 July 1848. Coming from Buninyong towards us at Burn Bank is a pack-horse carrying the first official ...
A Re-Evaluation of Queensland Numeral Cancellations
Sunday, May 11th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Postmarks, QueenslandBernard Manning. Author’s Note: This article is based on extracts from a new publication titled QUEENSLAND NUMERAL CANCELLATIONS due to be published shortly. Collecting numeral cancellations is a bit like being a detective. All the rules of observation and deduction, plus intuition ...
British Postmark Society
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008: Clubs & Societies, Great Britain, Links, PostmarksThe British Postmark Society (BPS) was founded on 1st January 1958, and exists to promote and to co-ordinate the study and collection of British postal markings, particularly of the 20th century and subsequently, and to publish and disseminate the results ...
The Last Cancellation from Colone Cosme
Monday, April 21st, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Paraguay, Postal History, PostmarksRonald M Lee. I am sure most of us have an accumulation of papers we intend to study in more detail when time permits. Recently I began looking at such a pile in a corner of my study and discovered a ...
Handstamp
Saturday, April 5th, 2008: Cachets, Glossary, Handstamps, Overprints, PostmarksA postmark, overprint, cachet or other such mark applied to a stamp or postal item by hand.
Lozenge Cancellation
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008: France & Colonies, Glossary, Netherlands & Colonies, PostmarksCancellation in the shape of a diamond, usually of bars or dots, found on early stamps of France and Netherlands & Colonies.
Boxed
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008: Cachets, Glossary, Handstamps, PostmarksDescription of a postmark, handstamp or cachet to indicate that it has an outer line around it, usually in the shape of a rectangle.
Army Post Office (APO)
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007: Glossary, Military, PostmarksThe organisation responsible for handling soldiers’ mail. Generally such mail can be recognised by the distinctive postmarks, which usually have the letters “APO”, “FPO” or some other inscription.