Postmarks.day By Day

For today: canceled 6 May, 1893 at Nijmegen, Netherlands:




Jan

For today, canceled May 12, 1937 at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:




May 12, 1937 was the date of the coronation of King George VI, as stated in the flag of the cancel. In addition, the underlying stamp is Scott 237 which was issued in honour of the coronation.

Jan

June 16, 2026

MANILA No. 1
JUN
16
2 PM
1939
PHILIPPINES



Seen here is an oxidized copy of the 1933 twelve-centavos airmail stamp. It should appear orange in color but oxidization has turned it brown. The illustration under the overprinted outline of an aeroplane, is of Pier 7 at Manila Bay.

The Stamp World online catalogue (SW.C) has assigned their number 357 to this stamp.

The reason for overprinting this issue was because of a sudden surge in the demand for airmail service and these overprints would help in the sorting of mail.

Thank you for this post explaining that this is an overprinted stamp. I asked about the stamp in the Cover Calander thread.

June 17, 2026

COLOMBO
A
17 JU
53
REGISTERED



The stamp is Ceylon number 253 (SW.C) and was issued in 1938. It is a 25-cent stamp and features an engraved imagine of the Temple of the Tooth.

Temple of the Tooth (also known as the Sri Dalada Maligawa) is located in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka, is famous because it houses the left canine tooth of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha). It is one of the most venerated pilgrimage sites in the Buddhist world and symbolizes immense political and spiritual authority.




The red marker shows Kandy's location on the island nation of Sri Lanka. Southern India is the other land mass shown to the upper left of Sri Lanka.

JUNE 18

PAQUEBOT
POSTED AT SEA
RECEIVED
18 06 29
SAINT JOHN N.B..




The Image Sleuth reveal:




The Leeward Island 1 ½ d. key plate stamps was issued between 1921 and 1926. The online catalogue (SW.C) lists it as number 62 (Leeward Is.)

I located this postmark on the cover shown below:



So, to understand this cover, it was posted on a vessel that frequents the Islands somewhere on the high seas between any one of the Leeward Islands and Saint John, N.B. However, the person mailing it did not receive a receipt for registration when it was placed in the Canadian mails to be forwarded to Scotland.

But that was a different time, and possibly the traveller was a regular on this route doing business and entrusted the letter to the purser on board, to receive it on his next return visit.

Alternately, maybe a collector took a chance by dropping it with the blue pencil cross on it in the hopes the postal staff would do the logical thing wherever the mail was off loaded.