Help With France Tpo (?) Cancel

Hello-

This cancel, apparently from a train leaving Reims, appears to me to be different from the typical ondule/scallop TPO cancels. I've included a more-familiar (to me) TPO cancel below for comparison.





Is this just natural variability in the courrier convoyeur cancels, or is this something different? I'm seeing a series of arcs meeting at points, nearly. If it has a different name, I'd like to go searching using the new term.

Thanks for looking.
Collin

How's your French.
I was looking at this site earlier which is very useful - http://www.marcophilie.org/

Is it a telegraph cancel?

Anthony, thanks, fascinating site for a budding marcophule marcophile ! like myself.

CJD, the cancel looks like a 10-sided Convoyeurs Ligne type (under the heading Aid to Identification by Type (Forme)) but so far I have not found a likeness to yours.

Also fascinating that France had heptagonne (7-sided) cancels.

Looking on Delcampe also but getting distracted by all the nice cancels much too much.

Anthony, I think it is a train cancel, based on the "Reims a ______" structure. It matches everything else about them, except it seemed less "wavy" and more "pointed" to me...might just be the nature of the strike.

That site is nicely put together, and is a great resource.

Doesn't that just describe us to a "T"?



If that wasn't intentional, it should have been...

Quite unintentional but maybe my subconscious was speaking there!

Doug of the Dark (no Light) Side

This is on Delcampe entitled:
Convoyeur Type 2 - Cormicy à Reims sur EPCL Semeuse 10c



Some parts of the cancel are rounded and some are more pointed seemingly. Perhaps this is due to wear or how the cancel was struck?

Thanks for the picture, Puzzler; I agree that some of the waves look like points. Until a better explanation comes along, I'm going to guess that I have a plain old TPO cancel that just looks a little different.

Another from Delcampe I didn't have time to post earlier.
I think it is the same, just looking at these.



Also called a Type II or T2.

Just showing off,
a new acquisition, Port Taufiq (tawfik, taufik)
Governate of Ismalia

Port on the Suez Canal.

Joy is a nice Postmark.

(If anyone can shed light on that particular TPO service, it would be appreciated)

Nice map showing the railway to Ismalia, talking about the Turkish attack on the British forces in WWI along the Suez Canal.
http://www.1914-1918.net/suez.htm

Does not show Tauriq, Taufiq,but where is that, on the way to Cairo from Ismalia perhaps?

edit: Oops, I mean PORT Tauriq Taufiq, must be on the canal somewhere? (spelled it wrong, no wonder I couldn't find it).

Goodness, that's a ripper link Puzzler,
thanks a bunch, nice Map.

Port Taufiq is at the very entrance to Great Bitter Lake
somewhere near "Serapeum" on the map, on the Eastern side,

Hmmm I got that terribly wrong.

Entrance to the red sea, at Suez,
so I am guessing late mail, etc to and fro, would have been
railed from Alexandria, to expedite either through the Mediterannean, or via Brindisi.


I think we stopped there on the way to Australia,
when we immigrated.

Port Taufiq is a very common postmark for mail from ships
going both ways.

Your map explains the rail line, I had long wondered why mail
would have been loaded / unloaded at port Taufiq,
It is becoming clearer.

Love those military maps with all the important defensive landmarks pointed out.

Here is (on Delcampe) a postcard booklet of pictures along the canal, including 'Port Tewfik', which is probably the same.

'Suez as-Suways Carnet Album 12 vues Port Said El Ferdane Port Tewfik Lac Timsak Ismalia Canal'
http://www.delcampe.net/page/item/i...guage,E.html

Lots of postcards on Delcampe under 'Port Tewfik' including this one showing Port Tewfik at bottom near Suez.

And one of a train going out along a breakwater, it looks like, I am a bit confused on all this myself.

http://www.stamps-auction.com/egypt...r-sale-78835