Postmarks.day By Day

March 22

N-Z
WELLINGTON
22 MR 94




NEW ZEALAND Scott #07a: Under the Wellington postmark you can barely see the OPSO purple handstamp indicating the stamp to be an official stamp. OPSO stands for On Public Service Only. This type of official was eventually replaced by stamps overprinted OFFICIA L beginning in 1908.

For today...canceled March 23, 1992 at Baldegg, Switzerland, in Canton Lucerne.

March 23

GEORGE TOWN
MR 23
1869

B. GUIANA


BRITISH GUIANA # 30 (SW.COM): 1863 -1875 Sailing Ship "Sandbach" - Inscription "B.GUIANA" 24-CENT denomination in Roman Numerals.

In the 1800's postmarks for the capital of British Guiana are shown reading GEORGETOWN, GEORGE TOWN and GEORGE-TOWN.

March 24

GOVERNMENT OF H. H. THE SULTAN OF
PORT OFFICE
24 MAR 1902




Tossing a bit of a curved ball at you with this Government of India 10-rupee revenue stamp, overprinted Zanzibar.
Stamped 24 March 1902 at the Port Offices.

ImageSleuth helped in decerning the words of the handstamp. I did not hazard a guess about the full handstamp.

Canceled March 24, 2004 at Lakeside, Arizona, in Navajo County. In 1984, Lakeside was combined with nearby Pinetop to form the Town of Pinetop-Lakeside, but the Postal Service has continued to treat them separately.

For today...canceled March 25, 1970 at Patmos, Arkansas, a tiny town in Hempstead County, one of the four communities in the United States named for the Greek isle.

March 25

VICTORIA
25 MR
56
SEYCHELLES


SEYCHELLES #160 & 163 featuring 1952 King George VI with an updated portrait and the same themes from the 1938 series. The catalogue numbers are from the online StampWorld.com website.

For today...canceled March 26, 1996 at Manasota, Florida, an unincorporated community in Sarasota County on Florida's Gulf Coast.

March 26

WEST HARTLEPOOL
P
MR 26
82




GREAT BRITAIN #66 (SW.COM): 1882 Queen Victoria £5 stamp was issue on March 21, so this was used on the fifth day of issue. A record shows that 246,826 copies of this stamp were sold.
West Hartlepool is located in northeast England and was an active shipbuilding port during this period, building some of the largest ships known at this time.

For today...canceled March 27, 1925 at Hoeylaert, Belgium, in Flemish Brabant and now known as Hoeilaart.

For today...was canceled March 27, 1925 at Hoeylaert, Belgium, in Flemish Brabant and now known as Hoeilaart.

Sorry about that duplication!

March 27

CEBU, CEBU
MAR
27
11AM
1928
P..I.



PHILIPPINES #228A (SW.COM): 1911 -1926 Personalities - New Watermark
City of Cebu is a highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 965,332 people, making it the sixth-most populated city in the country and the most populous in the Central Visayas Region.
The reason the name Cebu appears twice in the postmark is because it is Cebu City, in Cebu Region, sort of like New York, New York.

For today...canceled March 28, 1946 at Fortuna, California, a city on the Eel River in Humboldt County in extreme northwest California and known as "the Friendly City".

For today…canceled March 29, 1972 at Grayling, Alaska, a tiny city in west-central Alaska that is one of the checkpoints of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races in odd-numbered years.