Hi, I have a postal stationary with Kreuzer but I don't know how to read the postmark, so I don't know what year it is. Can anyone tell me the country, year and / or what the translation is and anything else.
I also have another postal card, dated 1882, but that is all I know. I think it is a German postal card? Here are the photos. Thank you all so much. SueStamps
Your first postal card is from the Austria-Hungarian empire mailed from Wien (Vienna). Date is a bit hard to read, but probably January 2, 1893 (2 1 93). It was mailed locally.
Wurtemburg is a German State though. Metzingen could have been in Wurtemburg? Metzingen postmark is 8 MRZ 1882 (European postmark dates read Day / Month / Year). German for the month of March is März so = MRZ abbreviated, neat!
The Zurich reception postmark is dated 9 March 1882 (III = Roman Numeral for 3) and the XI-- afterwards would probably be a time stamp of 11:00 A.M. o'clock (Roman Numeral for 11).
I use Google Translate but there are better ones that give you more of a proper meaning to a sentence or slang. Good for translating a word or two though. So, I put in March as an English word and asked for it to be translated to German and got the Marz which MRZ looks to be an abbreviation of, as they had to abbreviate things to get them to fit into the postmarks.
The AMBULANT postmark is a travelling (on the train) Swiss postmark, similar to our RPOs (Railway Post Office) or England's TPOs (Travelling Post Office). The business at the bottom is probably the train number and direction (guessing).
Bureau Ambulant is French for Travelling Post Office Bureau. They speak French and German in Switzerland.
To all who replied and helped me out. The biggest thank you! I have said this before but gotta say it again, I love SCF and I am still dazed and amazed at the knowledge you all have!
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