Monaco Railway Post Office Cancels

Here are two RPO cancels on Monaco stamps...one terminates in Marseilles and the other originates in Vintimille (Ventimiglia in Liguria, Italy...ten miles from Monte Carlo).




I wonder if the "missing" towns in each cancel is Monte Carlo? Any ideas?

I like.

Here is 'NICE A VINTIMILLE'


or perhaps better for yours 'VINTIMILLE A NICE'


Couldn't resist this:
From a postcard about the Nice Carnival, 'Doing the Tango'





Here is 'VINTIMILLE A MARSEILLE' on cover.



All pictures courtesy of www.delcampe.net Monaco listings.

I didn't consider the possibility of such wide spacing between the towns and the "A", though I should have, considering you can just see the tail of the "A" on my Marseille/Marseilles cancel.

Thanks for hunting up the other examples. I might as well throw the word ondule (a French name for these cancels) in here, so that this thread pops up on a search for them.

Puzzler learning (stumbling about with) the French language:

The French word ondulé (with acute accent over the e), by itself, translates (Google) to corrugated, but the French word ondule (without an acute accent over the e) translates to waves.

On Delcampe, Oblitération ondulé (obliteration corrugated, or corrugated cancellation) (perhaps mis-typed?) is used by a French lister to describe the wavey-lined cancel (my words) on this 2010 stamp.


However, the pretty cancel below is called 'TB cachet ondulé' which probably is an abbreviated version of 'Tres bien cachet ondulé' which translates to 'Very well seal corrugated' or a Very nice wavey-lined cancel.



And 'wavey-lined' translates back to French into 'Wavey-alignés' so I am spinning around in circles which is good because the cancellation Is circular generally speaking.

And 'Wavey-alignés' translates back to English into 'Wavey-aligned'.


If only I was French I would understand the convoluted puzzle before me. (Convoluted = compliqué which looks complicated to me!)


I am starting to think it is best to stick to the proper words for things.

Now I just have to learn how to properly pronounce them (more or less).

Enjoyable thread

Puzzler
Congratulation for the effort you give to translate from French to English.
A wavy-lined cancel would translate "une oblitération en ligne ondulé" So "wavy" is translate by "ondulée". It's the same for the crinkle-cut chips. We call them "chips ondulées" Miam miam A "e" is added when the word described is feminin.

Timbres667, thank you, I try a bit here and a bit there but sometimes there seems no progress.

The feminine / masculine is a confusing thing to me at times. How does one tell which word is to be considered feminine and which masculine? Is there a rule about it or does it depend on how the words are used and where in the sentence or conversation?

Puzzler
A word is feminine or masculine and there is no rule to guide you. We learn the gender of every word as a child when we start speaking and then in school. For an adult learning french it just come with practicing the language and looking in a dictionary. Myself I use often the online French-English dictionary. It's great I know English enough to fully participate to this forum.