Some Recent Stuff- Post Cards From All Over

The "Firdousie" card is from Iran, as is the stamp attached (Persia then). There is a current village "Ferdowsy" in the extreme NE corner of Iran (see Wikipedia), and that name, rendered in French, could very well be Firdousie. The card is postmarked Tehran, the capital.

See those trees in front of the building to the left of the Arc de Triomphe? I was sitting under those trees on a trip to Paris in 1988, and was shat upon by a pigeon. Got my arm and my camera, but it made a pretty French lady smile, so it wasn't all that bad.
That's all I can add.

....Ahh the romance of Paris...



All I can add is that Hastings is definitely in England. Battle of Hastings, 1066, Norman Conquest and all that.

Sorry, no funny bird poop stories.

HAHAHAHAHA James only you! Thank you Doug for the proper ID.

Very amusing James, a nice accompaniment to my bacon and eggs.

The Iran circled "C" is an interesting pmk. Service Mark.

The circled "C" is not a postmark; it may be a Censor marking, or a railroad identifier, or it may have been added at the destination. No idea what it's for. With your OK, I'll post the image on another forum where some postal historian's likely to know.

Certainly Doug, Thanks,
I have always taken any official markings on postal material
to be "marks of the post" or postmarks, be they auxilliary or not,
are we involved in semantics, whats your comment?
I had guessed Censor, but then considered C="carte" as a special postal rate.

A postal marking
is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. The most common types are postmarks and cancellations; almost every letter will have those. Less common types include forwarding addresses, routing annotations, warnings, postage due notices and explanations, such as for damaged or delayed mail and censored or inspected mail. A key part of postal history is the identification of postal markings, their purpose, and period of use.

Service marks
provide information to the sender, recipient, or another post office. Advice marks notify about forwarding, missending, letters received in bad condition, letters received too late for delivery by a certain time, or the reason for a delay in mail delivery. (For example, a letter may be marked "snowbank" if snow accumulation not cleared by the potential recipient, or for whatever other reason, makes it difficult or impossible for the carrier to deliver the mail.) Dead letter offices would use various markings to keep track of their progress in finding the addressee, such as a notation that the letter had been advertised in the local newspaper. The tracking process for registered mail may entail multiple marks, notations and backstamps.

Auxiliary marks
are applied by an organization other than the postal administration. For instance, 19th century mail delivery often relied on a mix of private ships, steamboats, stagecoaches, railroads, and other transportation organizations to transport mail. Many of these organizations applied their own markings to each item, sometimes saying simply "STEAMSHIP" or some such, while others had elaborate designs. Similar routing notations were also used in the early days of airmail.

Doug yes you may and Rod that's very interesting! Thank you for all the great replies~!

Ever find out anymore about that circled letter c?