Postmarks.day By Day

JUNE 28

MANCHESTER
A
JU28
83
YORK ST




Great Britain, 1881, £1 Brown Lilac on Bluish Paper (SC 92; SG 132)

PARIS
28 VI
1939
GARE MONTPARNASSE


France 1939 semi-postal commemorating the 50th. anniversary of the Eiffel Tower.

June 29
St. JOHN'S
JU 29
04
ANTIGUA, B.W.I.



Antigua # 19 (SW.C) is a 2½ d. Seal of the Colony stamp first issued in 1903

ST. KITTS
*
29 JU
48



St. Kitts & Nevis # 78 (SW.C).one shilling and Leeward Islands # 98, three-penny, both issued in 1938 adorn this mixed franking on piece.


SILHOUETTE ISLAND
B
JU 29
71
SEYCHELLES



Seychelles 196 (10-cent) & 200 (35-cent), both Stamp World.com catalogue numbers are affixed to this piece. The stamps were first issued in 1962. Silhouette Island can be found south of the main island in the Seychelles.

June 30

ST. THOMAS
30
6
1895





Danish West Indies # 15 (SW.C) 1895 No. 13 Surcharged "10 CENTS 1895"

FARMERS CAY
1 JUL 51
BAHAMAS




Farmers Cay post office was located on Little Farmers Cay which is shown on this map by the red location marker. It exists among a string of cays too small to be depicted on this map. There exists both a Little and Bigger Farmers Cay, but from what I have read, Farmers Cay was located on Little Farmers Cay. The Bahamian three half penny stamp showing King George VI, (StampWorld.com #106) was first issued in 1938.


N.Y.P.O. HUD. TERM. STA.
D
JUL 1
1913
PAQUEBOT




Dominica #4(SW.C.), first issued in 1908. The one-penny stamp shows the capital of the island, Roseau, as viewed from sea. The postmark is located in New York City, where the mail was received at Hudson Terminal Station having been posted aboard a ship travelling between the West Indies to the U.S.A.




MUSCAT
*
1 JL
65



Muscat: 1960 -1961 Great Britain Postage Stamps Surcharged. StampWorld.com #84. 10NP on three half-pennies.




July 1 is Canada Day. The national holiday in Canada

July 2

MARIGOT
*
JY 2
64
DOMINICA

Dominica #172 (SW.C) is a 14-cent stamp first issued in 1963 and features a woman in local garb. Marigot is located on the northeast coastal area of Dominica facing the Atlantic Ocean.



APPAM
A
JY 2
91
GOLD.COAST


Appam is located on the coast facing the Gulf of Guinea, in the middle of what is now Ghana. The red marker shows its location. The six-penny stamps showing Queen Victoria was issued between 1884 -1891 and is number 18 in the online catalogue, StampWorld.com.




VENTERSBURG
JL 2





Orange Free State under British Occupation in 1900. StampWorld.com lists the half-penny as number 24. The red marker shows the location of post office town in modern day South Africa.

July 3

REGISTERED
C
3
JY
06
BEYROUT



British Offices in Türkiye 1906 SW.C #25 1906 No. 16 Surcharged. Oval registration postmark on a piece is shown.



LARNACA
A
JY 3
00
CYPRUS



Cyprus 1894 -1896 Queen Victoria in 2 Colors (SW.C #33). Circular Town Cancel inside a squared circle.



MERIDA
3- JUL.44- 18
YUC.



Mexico #903 (SW.C), a two-centavo stamp issued in 1944. Mérida is the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southern Mexico.




REGISTERED
3 JY 36
G.P.O. SIERRA LEONE


The (SWC #143) four-penny KIng George stamp of 1932 is part of a series featuring a field of rice, a palm tree and a cola tree. A partial oval registration postmark is shown,

HONG KONG
C
JY 4
98


Hong Kong #41 (SW.C) was first issued in 1891 and features Queen Victoria.





POINTE MICHEL
*
JY 4
26
DOMINICA



Dominica #87 (SW.C) is a four-shilling stamp first issued in 1923. It shows the Seal of the Colony alongside a Medalion of King George V. Pointe Michel is located where the red marker is shown on this map showing the island nation of Dominica. To the north of the island is Guadeloupe and Martinique is to the south. Marie-Galante is part of Guadeloupe.







July 4 is Independence Day in America. The flag shown is a copy of the flag Francis Scott Key would have seen while imprisoned at Fort McHenry. Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem - The Star-Spangled Banner.

July 5




Ecuador SG 11 - 1872


ELMINA
A
6 JY
88


Gold Coast #14 (SW.C).
Elmina is a coastal town in the middle of Ghana located on the Gulf of Guinea as shown by the red marker.

July 6
ALL PINES
A
JY 6
11


All Pines was a village in the Stann Creek District of Belize. It functioned as a shipping port during the 19th and 20th centuries, supplying pine wood for builders in Belize and other locations along the coast. Cheaper pine wood from the United States led to the decline of All Pines during the mid-20th century, and the village was completely abandoned in the 1960s
The stamp is BRITISH HONDURAS #52 (SW.C) a two-cent denomination issued between 1905-1911 featuring Edward VII.

BATHURST
*
6 JY
43
GAMBIA


GAMBIA #144 (SW.C) is from a series first issued in 1938 and the five-shilling, like all stamps in this series feature George VI and an elephant. Bathurst was the capital of Gambia.

BRITISH POST OFFICE
3.15.PM
6 JY
44
TANGIER


A cut-square of a two-penny GREAT BRITAIN postal card featuring George VI.




GREAT BRITAIN # 40 (SW.C) 1873 -1876 Queen Victoria - Colored Control Numbers in Corners. The DOWN shown in this postmark is most likely but a partial strike.


BELIZE
6 JY
59
BRITISH HONDURAS


A mountain cow is shown on BRITISH HONDURAS #142 (SW.C), the first definitive series issued beginning in 1953 for the reign of Elizabeth II. The mountain cow is the national animal of Belize and is also known as the tapir.
There were a number of printings of this two-cent stamp and the image below shows SG# 180, 180a & 180b.