Bullseye And Socked On Nose Cancels

Renden - Good to see you back!

RustyC - Thanks, this is the only site I had already found with any info.

I just found more info on Altario on Wikipedia. It says Altario and 3 other hamlets are part of 'Special area no 4'- the 4 hamlets combined with about 1300 souls and decreasing. So, I guess postmarks from Hamlet is not all that common

I also found this PDF on the website of a collector of Alberta road maps (http://altaroads.ca/Population-50.pdf), but there is no indication of the date.

Thanks rustyc for the digging - that's awesome

26 inhabitants in Altario in year 19xx. Incredible how such tiny settlements / hamlets did have separate Post Offices. Not so anymore, at least not where I live.

Strawberry Hills. Great cancel!

Here's another one that came up. It is Australia, Scott #2, Die II which was issued February, 1913. What I found interesting was the "Ship" part of the cancel and the number 2. The date is also very close to the original date of issue.

Here's a couple nice early Brazil;

Bavaria;

Got the last stamp needed to complete my collection of French West Africa, a shade variety on the 10c Mauritanian Rifleman from the 1947 Series. Original at top left is in Ultramarine, the shade at top right from a later printing is in Blue-Green



Only catalogs 10 Euros or so in Maury, but it completes the collection. Sometimes it's the little successes in your collection that give the most satisfaction

Partime wrote:


In full that's SHIP MAIL ROOM, literally that, handling the outbound foreign mail. There were even mailboxes with special slots or separate mailboxes (I forget which) to save sorting out of ordinary mail.

thank you all for sharing, really enjoyed this post.

To be more precise: A post office was opened in Wilhelmina 1 Feb 1911, and its name was changed to Altario 1 July 1919. The post office was still open in 1985.

Jan

Nells250:

Nice cancel. Don't know if you collect the Briefzentrum cancels,but Briefzentrum 53 is in Troisdorf.

Don

The "PD" indicates "Per Dampfschiff", by steamer.

DonSellos - nope, stamp was attached to a Postcrossing postcard :-)