Registration Labels - Why Not?

Nice one John,
I don't recall seeing a Mongolian Registration before,
unusual airmail lozenge livery too.
Mongolian secret history?

That would make a great collection BeeSee!


Mong Kok :

Mong Kok less often known as Argyle is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District on Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong.

Mong Kok's population density is extremely high. According to Guinness World Records, Mong Kok has the highest population density in the world (mean 130,000 per km2)

Some of the stamps which were graciously identified for me earlier this year are at this site.
https://goscf.com/t/17247

Antwerp (to throw a hand)
Capital of the Belgian province of Flanders


The hand of Antigonous.

According to folklore, and as celebrated by the statue in front of the town hall, the city got its name from a legend involving a mythical giant called Antigoon who lived near the river Scheldt. He exacted a toll from those crossing the river, and for those who refused, he severed one of their hands and threw it into the river Scheldt. Eventually, the giant was slain by a young hero named Brabo, who cut off the giant's own hand and flung it into the river. Hence the name Antwerpen, from Dutch hand werpen—akin to Old English hand and wearpan (= to throw), that has changed to today's warp.

There are hands in the town flag. Also there are several sweets in the form of a hand (cookies, chocolates).






Severed hands on a stamp of Belgium

I'll add a Trinidad to the mix:

My Calais label shown previously on another post. But I'll share it here too. Why not, I say!

Rodney, I see I very rudely refused to answer your question about the Morvi cover on the last page.

If you look closely at it, you'll see an annotation 'Refused'. (There's been a small flood of Refused mail returned to the Trichur (Cochin) Magistrate's Court come onto the market in recent years - some of it registered. No registration labels, though, in most cases.)

And by way of amends, a different type of Registration label from Hyderabad, this with the Urdu 'R' at right:





with the Registration number repeated in blue pencil on the front.

And as further amends, this rather elementary Registration label from Idar State



and the 3 annas worth of ½ Anna stamps (the 1941 emerald printing of SG 1) paying the registration rate, also rather primitively cancelled (in 1941) on the back:



Who said manuscript cancels were a modern phenomenon?

The Idar label is a classic

Not a whole lot of registered mail from Himmatnagar...

Hope I haven't shown this one already





From Barwani, across the Narmada River, to Dhar, during the classic era of Barwani stamps, but long after the wicked British had closed down the Dhar State Post Office

And, Rodney, for the Secret History of the Mongols, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Se..._the_Mongols

A couple from Victoria (Australia):




Does a new post office start out at 00001, and just keep going from there? Put another way, do the numbers reset at some point? Considering Spencer Street's importance in Melbourne, I'm thinking this is a relatively low number.



According to the interwebs, Noble Park is about 25 kilometers southeast of downtown Melbourne.

A very old registration label from India
(part of modern day Pakistan)

Sialkot (I'll let Tony tell you about that place)






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Katikati
was settled in 1875 by settlers from County Tyrone in Ireland through the Orange Institution. The settlement was established by the Irishman George Vesey Stewart, who led two groups of settlers there aboard the ships Carisbrook Castle (1875) and Lady Jocelyn (1878). The land upon which the town was built was confiscated from local Mâori after the land wars, and was given to the settlers by the Central Government.

AFAIK the numbers are completely random,
booklets, sheets coils were printed with consecutive numbers
within, but had no bearing or audit when delivered to
Post Offices.
The chance that two articles being registered from the same
post office, on the same day with the same number would be
extremely rare if ever.