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German Postcard With A Worldwide Puzzle

 
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Posted 06/03/2023   6:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add PostmasterGS to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Who doesn't love the puzzle of a busy postcard?!?

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Here's what I know — this Württemberg postal stationery was cancelled 12 Dec 1899 at the Stuttgart No. 1 post office. It was addressed to a recipient in Stuttgart. Either the sender or recipient then took the card on an extensive trip, attaching favor-cancelled local postage at stops along the way. The text on the rear seems to indicate it was the recipient, who then mailed it back to the original sender, though I'm still trying to work that out for sure.

Anyone with knowledge of worldwide postage care to help with the non-German portions? Here's my current stab at the order.

1. Stuttgart, Germany; 12 Dec 99
2. Paris, France; 15? Dec 99
3. Liege, Belgium; 20 Dec 99
4. ??MO??, USA; ?? Jan 00
5. German Ost-Asiatische Linie (running from Europe to China); 7 Feb 00
6. ??UCC??, Italy; 22 Feb 00
7. Colombo, Ceylon; 11 Mar 00;
8. Straits Settlements/Johore Bahru; ??
9. Hong Kong (Ost-Asiatische Linie Cancel); 27 Mar 00
10. Shanghai German Post; 27 Mar 00
11. Shanghai Japanese Post; 28 Mar 00
12. French Post in China; ?? ??? 00
13. Yokohama, Japan; 6 Apr 00
14. Huanxan Russian Post; 5 May 00
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Posted 06/04/2023   01:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
6 : most likely succle,which stands for "succursale" (office)
But it does not help to identify the town
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Posted 06/04/2023   03:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add flip138 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
6. Palermo, I think.

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Posted 06/04/2023   03:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Palermo,of course,on my postmark.
But on the busy postcard ?
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Posted 06/04/2023   08:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cupram to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi @PostmasterGS
For position 12, the 5c type Sage stamp has a double circle cancellation (the inner one interrupted) and I see "Chine" at the bottom.
It is probably the French office in SHANGHAI, an example found on the net:

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Posted 06/04/2023   10:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cupram to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Position 2.
Cancellation at the post office Paris 28 with the address R.(rue) de Poissy.
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