Wonderfully Odd-Shaped Hexagonal Stamps And Cancels

A resort town in the highlands that people go to in the summer to escape the heat in the lower country.

Thanks Tony,
I thought the script looked identical,
but then again it could have read "postage" :)

Puzz
Belgian hex cancels on railways are quite prized,
and sought after.

The other hexagonal stamp within a square perforated outline, (a stamp within a label?) of the two Tour de France stamps (first one shown earlier)



Note to Rod, the previously shown 6-pointed starfish is hexagonal but not a hexagon nor a hexagram. English (and Greek and Latin) as them are spoke, to paraphrase Mark Twain.


stampgal, in my disorder (I searched and searched) I could not (as yet, but I did find your envelope) find the Tour de France stamp you sent me. Whatever did I do with it? Was it on paper or off? Used or mint? Sigh. Panic is starting to set in.

It is almost time to purchase another stamp collecting tool I am currently missing:

If I am not mistaken,
That is George Hincapie on that stamp,
the mighty workhorse, for Lance Armstrong.

George the mighty road warrior. Very fitting.

PS: The greatest form, has no shape. (Lao Tzu)

Chicagopex (Chicago Philatelic Exhibition) 1983 hex cancel alongside a balloon cancel.

Not the clearest cancel
CORREO AEREO (Spain Air Mail) / 24.A30.6:51AM / SEGOVIA
I believe dates on European postmarks go by Day/Month/Year so 24 Abril of Augusto (April or August) 1930, but I am still learning Spanish postmarks.



The writing on the postcard this is from says it is a card from Segovia and one of the stamps is of Segovia also. Neat.

Puzzler, re lost stamp - it was used, off paper, but still attached to its outside bit - as in the second example you showed above.
Let me know if you still can't find it - I'll rustle up another...

Thanks for description. I just may have placed it somewhere 'safe' and now my brain is on a new cycle or something. Is Jupiter aligned with Mars or anything like that? Maybe it's that extra radiation coming from the Draco galaxy? It's probably there in plain sight, best place to hide anything from me.

Macau (Macao) 2001 and 2002 hexagonal stamps on the 1st and 2nd souvenir / miniature sheets (out of 8 total) in the I Ching (Pa Kua) series.

A complete set of eight sheets will show all 64 hexagrams (little black 6-barred diagrams or puzzles) (8 stamps times 8 sheets) of the I Ching divination method. Last sheet is due out this year I believe.

A few octagons for my friends...:)











<edit> According to my book note - Turkey - Offices in Thessaly - 1897

Very nice octagons Barb! Quality engraving.
I don't know where they are from but the postmark in English 'YENIDJE' is or was a town in Thrace (Greece?).

Those are very pretty octagonal stamps, bfranton!

Puzz, the octagons are Turkish military stamps.

I bought these for the cancels, not really looking at the stamp condition.

Belgium telegraph stamps with a hexagon cancel (nice! but I am not sure why this cancel shape was used. (Maritime perhaps?) Most cancels on these are octagonal.) . . .

. . . and a circular cancel, which was an actual postal cancel, not telegraph, so this stamp was used on a postal cover to pay the extra hand delivery charge. There were some nice covers with telegraph stamps on ebay but in the $100 range so beyond me at this time.

I've got this one going on in the auction forum:



I've always like those Belgian telegraph stamps. I think I have one or two lying around...