Script On Stamps

I suppose a topical could be script on stamps. So I will put this here. The stamp pair is common, but the script is ?? Does it read Rec Feb 25th - M1 with (checks) K. Cheesman. Anyone else get a different read or maybe know what the writing is about?

Rec
Feb 25th 41
With Thanks
K Cheesman

ok checks, thanks, I got that last two letters. Thanks Rod.

Is it Feb? I actually think it looks like Jan. I don't see an e, and the last letter looks the same as the n on the end of Cheesman.

"With thanks" makes sense... but I'm not sure on that word. Sure looks like it has an e in it. Still contemplating.

Balf

I'm seeing:
Jan 25th - M1
With Thanks
K Cheesman

so happy to have it retrieved from the files of the known and hurled into the pit of the unknown

Try as I might I can't see the word thanks. We can see examples of how he did his T's with 25Th and "with". Neither match the first letter of the word that may or may not be thanks It has a looped top unlike his other t's.

We can also see how he does an "a" with Cheesman. That also doesn't appear in the word.

And yet I still can't make out any other word that makes sense. Still puzzled.

Balf

Ah... see, my friend, you look for logic in penmanship.
There is none, other than what is unique to the individual. Had we a longer example, you'd see other a and e examples which fit the form.

... she says... having learned at an early age to decifer doctor scripts... where the first class in med school is handwriting 101 and how to be illegible.! :) hehe

I can normally decipher American but I seem to strugle with English.

I'll stand corrected,
looks like Jan

I wonder ... would an Englishman, during the 1940s or early 1950s, have written 'Jan 25th'? Seems most unlikely to me. '25th Jan (or Feb)' maybe, but that doesn't appear to be what it says.

I believe the date is Jan 25th 41.

How interesting! I think you are right Tony,
but going by the "R" in received, the R with the loop
indicates a poor hand, or limited schooling.

My first impression was Jan.

The more I look at it, the less I see 'Jan' or 'Feb' or 'th' after the number. I don't believe it's a date at all: it's something else. And what is the dash doing under (what others are reading as) 'th'? That certainly isn't UK usage with dates.

This is not exactly a CDS . . .