Bullseye And Socked On Nose Cancels

Here's one from Egypt. The earliest SON cancel I have--December 26, 1868:

A little off center...Arnhem is by no means a small town, so cancels from Arnhem are downright common. This one is from 1898.



A family friend lived there during the war, and would relate firsthand accounts of the events stylized by the movie A Bridge Too Far.

SON selection from the stockbook

It's too rich for my blood, but if you want to lust after well-struck socked-on-the-nose cancels on early Netherlands material, check out this ebay listing:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Collection-...em5ae4ad296b

Be sure to click on the link in the middle that opens all of the images of the collection.

I would LOVE to buy it, but am too overextended at the moment...

A few representative pages:

Heres a few more SON ...

Kristianstad June 20, 1897...



The city served as capital of Kristianstad County between 1719 and 1997. It now houses the administration of the Skåne Regional Council. For a long time Kristianstad also was a very important garrison town. One of Sweden's courts of appeal was located in Kristianstad before being moved to Malmö in 1917.

In 2000, an armed group of Italian soldiers, on a NATO exercise, landed at Kristianstad's small rural airport having mistaken the town for Kristiansand in Norway.(?)

Makes me glad I don't live in Damascus, Maryland or Moscow, Idaho. Yikes.

Can one imagine the mixe ups Nato is having in the world troublespots?

No wonder the Pakistani are upset....

Obock, with a nice, blue 1897 cancel:

I didn't know this thread existed. Here are a few of mine that I have pulled the last few days. I know, a few don't technically count by most, but still. Please ignore those in the one scan that are not SON...

its not a stamp it's an adventure.

http://s1070.photobucket.com/albums/u499/btcorp/ Have a peek.

This may seem like an odd question, but why do so many German stamps seem so more perfectly "SOTN" than anywhere else? Was it just the aspect of precision that was instilled in them or something else? A good percentage of the stamps I have are from Germany, and it's crazy how many of them are SOTN, even the smaller ones.

Speaking of smaller ones, do those count even if the stamp was too large for everything to fit, even though you can tell it was SOTN? If that makes sense...

I am not sure about the German stamps alone.

I have heard that with collecting stamps now in Germany and areas the postmark, and where it is placed, affects the price of the stamp and the desirability of it also. This is reflected, I believe, in their catalogues. This may have been the case in history also and thus influenced collectors wishes and requests at their post offices.

Certain postmasters I think were more inclined to be accurate and precise than others.

For example the Halifax, NS, Morris St Post Office around 1900 had a postmaster (a former sea captain) who produced many SON CDSs while the Gottingen St post office in Halifax has not so many.

Collecting CDSs and SON ones has been more of a sideline here in North America while in Europe it can be seen as a more important part of the hobby.

How lazy can you get ? I started this thread and then did not even bother to look for it again !! I liked those early Netherlands postmarks...the stamps themselves were the common postage so whatever the person was asking must have been based on the town and city postmarks !!