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Early Italian Cover Postmark Date Arrangement

 
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Posted 07/06/2015   4:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add sandy0646 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Would like help with the date on this cover. Don't know which direction to read it.



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Posted 07/06/2015   5:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PoStat4evR to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
30-5-20 = May 30, 1920
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Edited by PoStat4evR - 07/06/2015 5:18 pm
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Posted 07/06/2015   9:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add billsey to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
At 2 in the afternoon...
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It's also a railroad cancel!

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Posted 07/06/2015   10:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add amccleaf1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Peter, what makes it a railroad cancel? Is it the two town names?
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"FERROVIA" in the cancel, literally "iron way" or "iron road" in Italian, means railway. "MESSINA FERROVIA," the Messina line, one of the major lines on Sicily with trunk routes to Palermo and Siracusa via Catania. Likely mailed from one of those cities and canceled en route either to Palermo or Messina where it would have transferred either to an ocean vessel (at Palermo or Messina) or possibly crossed the Strait of Messina on a rail barge and then continued up the boot.
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Posted 07/07/2015   10:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add amccleaf1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you, Peter. Now I am going to have to re-examine my Italian cancels.
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