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Italian Postmark - What Date Does It Read?

 
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Posted 07/01/2013   12:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wt1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
It looks like someone was messing around with the date and time slugs within the CDS of this Italian postmark. The best I can make out is that the postmark year was 1917. Can anyone figure out the month and day?

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Posted 07/01/2013   04:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add a6zsn to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
17 February 1917!
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Posted 07/01/2013   06:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks.

It originally looked to me like an inverted "29" on the second line, but after looking more carefully I suppose an inverted "2" is correct. Is the top number "20-21" supposed to refer to the time as in 8:21 PM or is there another meaning.
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Posted 07/01/2013   11:34 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's not 8:21 p.m. -- "20-21" is the hourly setting, European-style, cancelled between 8 and 9 p.m.
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Posted 07/01/2013   1:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks. Obviously, I'm not too familiar with European postmarks, but now that you explained it, I suppose it makes perfect sense.
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