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Interesting And Mysterious Greek Cover

 
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Posted 01/02/2009   7:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add t360 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
This Greek cover was mailed in 1938 in a city starting with the Greek letter Pi to what appears to be Athens.



It has four different postmarks. the first is a weak strike used to cancel the stamps. The other three are bolder.





And there are five different stamps.





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Posted 01/02/2009   8:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add WpgLwr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Cool. Is there anyone here that can read Greek and tell us the story of this cover?
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Posted 01/02/2009   11:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamperdude to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have a hard enough time deciphering US postal covers with lots of markings.
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Posted 01/06/2009   2:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jan-Simon to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think it was sent from Piraeus, Peiraias in Greek. Other than that I can not read handwritten Greek... (printed Greek I can decipher, but I do not understand it)
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Posted 01/06/2009   6:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add t360 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks a million, Jan-Simon!
I think I understand it now.

The first (weak) postmark must be Piraeus.
The second postmark is Athens.
The third postmark is Kallithea, which is between Piraeus and Athens.
The fourth postmark may be Neou Falirou, which is a cross-street between Piraeus and Kallithea.

So the cover traveled from Piraeus, then to Neou Falirou, then to Kallithea and finally to Athens.

Piraeus is the port of Athens, so the cover actually traveled a short distance (8.3 km or 5.2 miles),
which is consistent with three of the town cancels showing the same date, February 16, 1938.
One of the two Athens receiving cancels reads February 17 and the second reads February 18.

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Posted 01/06/2009   8:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 1775mac to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Very nice cover and fine lesson to boot.
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Posted 01/07/2009   2:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add t360 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This censored Greek cover was sent from Athens to Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania a few years
after the previous cover. The exact date is hard to read, but from the backstamps we know it
was mailed during WWII in 1941, sometime before April 1.





From studying the backstamps, we can see that this cover did not travel west from Athens to the United States.
Instead it was sent east to San Francisco, then on to Pittsburgh and finally to Wilkinsburg, PA.
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