Wonderfully Odd-Shaped Hexagonal Stamps And Cancels

Here is a poorly-centered Belgian telegraph...it gives a good feel for how they look. I mentioned this many posts above this one, but a block of these is pretty neat.

Collin

Cancels, perhaps, but not stamps. As far as I know, France didn't have separate pneumatic post stamps like Italy's.

Thanks again, nice to see a stamp picture.

I did read that post above but have been slow at hunting down any stamps or cancels. Just what I trip across in my ebay, etc surfing.

Since this topic got bumped, I should probably mention that I was having a little fun earlier with the Scott system and Italy's stamp issuing policy with my mention of Italy NCDRA1, the occupation pneumatic airmail postal tax stamp.

I can't say for sure that one doesn't exist (okay, I probably can), but for sure it isn't listed in Scott.

Just so no one goes elsewhere looking for one...

Yes Puzzler, Lombard Street.

Here are two more "fancy geometrics"
The final (day to day) use of these type of cancels was 1909

These two are interesting "THREADNEEDLE St" and "PARK LANE'
both are perfinned so we can trace business' to that district

France
hex pneumatic cancels
they also had a postcard type "postcard pneumatiquess"
(or something similar) not on the stamp but the card.
Experts would be able to elaborate

Yummy there Collin. Very nice indeedy.
I have not spied these before,any idea of usage?
Probably telegrams.
Philately seems to snub the telegram somehow,
very little info in the public domain that I have run across,
and it holds such an important place in communication.

Great thread and great stamps guys

I'm not sure if I have any or not I'll have to go look. Now where to start

Dianne

Rod-

The Belgian telegraph stamps are also found with cancels...they were, in fact, attached to telegrams. I've read about the payment and cancel process, but I need to find that information again before I put it here as truth.

Thanks for the separated hex cancels. It is difficult to make out the detail of the one I posted because of the underlying complexity of the design on France 123. Any chance your source for those cancels lists the tube stations? It seems that there couldn't have been too many...?

Collin

AFAIK there were 23 Collin,
but this is specialised stuff, I was given the details
when I was learning about pneumatic mail, I was just a newbie
People offer you help but you don't know where they sourced it,
It looks professional and I don't want to offend, it must have an author out there somewhere.
I can give you more details off forum, I just don't want to post
in the public domain. It may not even be helpful.

This should be your stamp Puzzler,
It looks like yours has faded in the centre?
or is it all yellow?

I wonder about Puzzler's stamp...the purple looks like the kind of color that would have been a candidate for fading on soaking, but the yellow shading on the posted scan looks pretty uniform across the stamp (to my eyes)...puzzling.

Hi Rod222,
Mine is all pale yellow. Perhaps faded yes, but still all yellow.

If it was similar to yours to start with Rod, are there any signs I can look for that would tell me that?

It seems pretty dirty. It came from an album dated around 1895 or 1900 or so and lots of the stamps still have bits of paper on them too. I haven't removed it from that album as of yet either so haven't soaked (??) to remove hinge and/or paper or examined the back at all. I was just so pleased that it had a hexagonal cancel.

Problem solved.
I looked up the "Officiele Catalogus" for Belg
and there is indeed an 80 centime bistre.

I should have done that before, I was being lazy. apologies.
Unable to offer further, as it is all in Flemish?
Nice cancels. keepers.