Wonderfully Odd-Shaped Hexagonal Stamps And Cancels

Puzzler,

I have the other stamp from the sheet saved for you.
If the covers with the hexagonal FDOI handstamps don't arrive, I'll send some more and add this stamp.

Fingers crossed.

Londonbus1.....bit of a square !

Woo Hoo londonbus1 comes through from the Wondrous Accumulation Collection!

Happy Dance time
Note first use of banana-man by puzzler.

By the way, at the stamp club meeting last week I talked to the flag man but he had not brought the stamps / covers so I am getting them next month for you and Bee See. By that time I will have accumulated more ettiquetes for you also.

Question, do you have any of the others of the sets of that hexagonal set on mini sheet from Namibia from the other countries that issued them also?

A hexagonal cancellation from Rawul Pindee (Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan)





on a cover from Jammu & Kashmir, probably some time in the 1870s. (The Indian PO decided, for a while, that there was no need to show the year on cancellations.) The Kashmir ½ Anna blue (SG 91) carried the letter as far as the border with British India, but the Indian ½ Anna stamp was needed to get the letter from there to Rawalpindi.

Edit: It just occurred to me that, since the cover reached Rawalpindi before Amritsar (Umritsur), it must have taken the long, western, route from Kashmir, via Poonch. This was normally only used in Winter, when the shorter southerly route, via Jammu, was blocked by snow.

Excellent Tony. Thanks.




Yes .i was, and they are both the map of the country of France. Took a while to click in there in the foggy parts of my brain.

Just in from londonbus1 (thank you) are these two covers plus others that have a Day of Issue hexagonal marking. Not sure that it is a cancel, but it is hexagonal and philatelic-related so it's OK in my book.


(for a close up of the stamp-on-stamp stamp see
https://goscf.com/t/3527&SearchTerm...ps+on+stamps

On this cover there are two hexagons. The first is the day of issue one with a gazelle (I think). The second (kind of, not really on this cover, but close) is inside the hexagram, the 6-pointed star (Star of David). The hexagon in the center is formed by the intersecting lines of the two equilateral (equal length sides) triangles.


Hexagram of Solomon


Interesting side note is that the word hexagram in English is sexagram in Latin, for all you scholars out there.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram

The hexagram is kind of scary as it is also used in many religions, Masonic lore, and some kinds of white and black Magic. It is found on seals and insignias and is the basis for the Chinese hexagram divining system also. It has to be drawn in a certain way for most of these uses I think.



But I like it best when just represented as a simple (or somewhat complicated) mathematical geometric figure.

These have got a distinctive feel to them. I am curious as to why there are not more interestingly shaped stamps produced. Is it to do with production cost?

The snow crystal stamps are great! Wilson Bentley was the first person to successfully photograph and document snow crystals and his biography by Duncan Blanchard is utterly fascinating.

Hi Alexarne,
Your items were not actually stamps in the traditional sense but were embossed one at a time.
Value if you are interested is significantly reduced when cut to shape unfortunately but they are indeed lovely items.

Thanks.Seems amazing that each should be embossed one at a time! What processes were involved and would this have been done by just a few individuals?

You can read about it here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britis...stage_stamps

Found a snow crystal design from Norway.

Many thanks Londonbus, I am about to have a look.

P.S I particularly like how the designer decided to hang his tree decoration from the 'G'.

I am going to test you here, Puzzler.

Is this a Hexagram?

Off the top of my head I would say no.

But I had to go look at Wikipedia to be sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram




I think that 6/2 and 2/3 means 6 triangles only using 2 sides or 2 3-sided equilateral triangles.

I think the key word that excludes the starfish is geometric.

Thanks,
most starfish have 5 fingers,
I saw a six fingered starfish or Jewish starfish
representing the hexagram, but the Trinidad fingers
were more pointed, and it looked like a borderline example.

Spain had hexagonal cancels for Air mail covers between 1918 to 2000 aprox.

I'm collector of this type postmarks and all hexagonal stamps, censor marks and other postmarks.

Nice cover, beautiful postmarks.