A Re-Evaluation of Queensland Numeral Cancellations
Bernard 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 ...
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Army Post Office (APO)
The 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. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...British Forces Post Office (BFPO)Kerang ...
August Dietz, Confederate States Philatelist, Editor & Publisher
The registered cover was addressed to Aug Dietz Esq, 900 West Clay Street, Station A, Richmond, Virginia, United States and had a magenta 8d ‘Lyre Bird' New South Wales stamp canceled with a REGISTERED/ OC 7/96/ SYDNEY postmark as well ...
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Australia: Eaglehawk Post Office, Victoria 3556 (2008)
- External links Bendigo Governement website: http://www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=642&h=1 If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Australia: Castlemaine Post Office, Victoria 3450 (2008)Kangaroo Flat Post Office, Victoria, Australia 3555 (2008)Maldon Post Office, Victoria, Australia 3463 (2009)
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Boxed
Description of a postmark, handstamp or cachet to indicate that it has an outer line around it, usually in the shape of a rectangle. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...HandstampThe Postmarks of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies (1936)Labour ...
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Cancellation
Any mark applied to a stamp to prevent its re-use in the post. Found in various forms including a postmark, pen cancellation, an overprint or manuscript addition denoting invalidation, eg. Cancelled, Specimen, Sample, Inutilizado, or mute cancellations (see Barred) or ...
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
China’s Train Post Offices – Modern Chinese TPO Postal Markings
Philatelic Database has just acquired a substantial collection of archival material for its philatelic library. Amongst these tomes was a curious journal entitled: Stamps World: “The only academic, informative and interesting stamp magazine in Hong Kong,” published by Philatelic Publications ...
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Handstamp
A postmark, overprint, cachet or other such mark applied to a stamp or postal item by hand. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...CancellationPrisoner of War MailBoxed
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Kerang Post Office, Vic, Australia 3579 (2009)
[caption id="attachment_5008" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="Kerang Postmark"][/caption] If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...St Kilda Post Office, Victoria, Australia 3182 (2009)Australia: Newstead Post Office, Victoria 3462 (2009)Australia: Cobargo Post Office, NSW 2550 (2009)
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Lozenge Cancellation
Cancellation in the shape of a diamond, usually of bars or dots, found on early stamps of France and Netherlands & Colonies. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...CancellationThe Last Cancellation from Colone CosmeH
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Maldon Post Office, Victoria, Australia 3463 (2009)
More info can be found at http://www.maldoncastlemaine.com/?id=maldon Maldon Visitor Information Centre 93 High St. Maldon VICTORIA 3463 Australia Ph. 61 354 752 569 Email: maldonvic@mountalexander.vic.gov.au Web: www.maldoncastlemaine.vic.gov.au If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Maldon Post Office, Victoria, Australia 3463 (1875)Australia: Belmont Post Office, Victoria 3216 (2009)Australia: ...
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Notes on the History of Post Offices in Pyrenees Shire
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 mail ...
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Stamps of Finland: Issue of 1885, Cancellations
[Paper read before the Dundee Philatelic Society, 20th October, 1910.] The stamps of this issue show a wonderful range and variety of cancellation marks, some of which are extremely rare and interesting. Probably the rarest is an eight-pointed star composed of ...
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Straits Settlements Centenary (1967)
The former British Colony in the Malay Peninsula known as "The Straits Settlements" consisted of Singapore (with which were included the Cocos or Keeling Islands and Christmas Island), Penang (including the Province of Wellesley and a strip of land known ...
Friday, June 5th, 2009
The Last Cancellation from Colone Cosme
Ronald 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 ...
Monday, April 21st, 2008
The Postmarks of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies (1936)
The following article was first published in the Philatelic Journal of Great Britain (March, 1936) and was written by S. H. CREESE from a paper read before the Manchester Philatelic Society. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Stamps of ...
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Why I Love Collecting Queensland
There are many philatelic commonalities amongst the different areas that we all collect. To explain further, if we collect Postal History or stamps of a particular country or period, then our individual reasons for collecting them will in general be ...
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
WWI – Belgium Armoured Car Division in Russia
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 previous ...
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
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