Railway Stamps

Nells, don't know where they sold them..but they are for parcels that travelled by train...i read somewhere that ones with "round" postoffice postmarks are worth more than the rectangle cancel..Rod, I have some...if you like we can talk on another thread!

its happened again...someone starts a thread and I get the catalog and stockbooks out....heres Q291 and Q293 from the 1945 1946 era !

printed by Waterlow and Sons ! I never stop learning !!

hey I have a few of those (Grand Central Station) and the like...I wasn't aware they was of value or any special significance. Also an American flag cancel or two also...hmmm ya got me wondering now! See that's why I love this forum and hobby!

This is definately NOT what your all posting about but a RailRoad stamp none-the-less ! [I need to find the proper software for my scanner]

I have read this link and followed the mentioned links along with other Google searches. This is Belgium #121 and according to Scott's, it could have either a postal or railroad cancel. It is obviously not a readily recogonizable rectangular railroad cancel but since the railroad could also have used a round cancel, I am uncertain. Any help in identifying the source of cancel is greatly appreciated.

Nice stamp falcon!

Interesting. I have a small bunch of these "railroad" stamps with perfins. This would tend to make me beleive that they were sold at a regular PO (or preurcahsed at the depot) and the companies that shipped these parcels perfinned their stamps (for conventional reasons) and used them when mailing a parcel.

In regards to postmarks. What constitues a RR cancel in Belgium?
From the "Terms & Abbreviations Used IN Railway Philately" list, the follow terms (if seem) represent RR or TPO affiliations:

Begeleider: Mail Guard
Bureau Ambulant: Travelling Post Office
Convoyeur: Mail Guard
Gare: Railway Station
Schbp (during WWI): Schaffnerbahnpost (2nd class TPO)
Station: Railway station
Treinpostkantoor: Travelling Post Office

When it comes to actual RPO markings, I don't have a clue (have never seen a liting). Anyone of you have links to a place that lists them?

Anyway, finding this an interesting thread. Keep info a coming...

No replies?

Have you tried SCF?

Type in RPO in the search box and title only
there is a bevy of listings to read, that may assist.

The original poster would have been better to have
used, or edited to "Railway Parcel Stamps"

There are 2 types of railway stamps. The stamps with a railway on which are mostly only topical stamps or Railway stamps issued by a railway organization which had their Railway organization, i.e. Belgium or Iraq which had an own authorized railway post system.

This is a German TPO cancel ("Bahnpost") on Wagner stamp :



Date: July 4, 1934
SOEST-NORDEN (South-North?)

New South Wales parcel:




(creased)

There is something about trains!




I had a bunch of the example shown here on the top row which I sold a year or so ago, and immediately regretted it. So I've come across more and will keep 'em. Also have some of the beautiful 1949 locomotive set, which I still need to extricate from the album.
Start a new vario page!