Anyone Doing The Same?

Off course I'm sharing with any 'brothers in arms' - or more precisely 'brothers with tongs'

I've been collecting postmarks from Canada as a sideline to my Canadian collection (lots available in kiloware). I, however, wasn't finding any NWT or Nunavut, which is predictable. I then started sending letters to the post offices up there asking for hand cancels for my Nunavut album. Here is a page of it. I have about 10-15 now with about the same left to go. A couple have never returned my letter and I wonder how many times I'll have to try. The uploader wouldn't let me rotate it....sorry.

Now, That's a way to do it!
I just sorted my Canadian postmarks as well. As expected I found none from Nunavut, and also none from Northwestern Territories and only 3 from Yukon....I guess it tells a story how few people are actually living there.

I just found this interesting thread on Postmarks and some were referring to WWII and countries' stamps. Presently I am working on a collection of WWII stamps my father bought in 1974 - I am starting Part 3 "Axis Powers". Opened my album to find this interesting postmark from Czechoslovakia-Bohemia - It is actually a 1942 cancel from Praha (Prague)...I will search for more ......

René - cool to see you getting into postmarks as well! Welcome to the club.

Thanks Jon

another one from 1936 Scott 469 (Germany)




a bit of problem deciphering this one and my German is poor !

your quote

Do you have separate albums for stamps and postmarks

René, until now I have simply been inserting additional pages at the back of the album. Working on France now (as you know), and the amount of old numeral postmarks and vast amount of modern CDS's will require me to use a separate album. The Vario albums I'm using can easily house 5000 stamps, so I think that will be enough for my French postmarks.

Rene,
Nice postmark, even tough not fully readable.
For identifying German postmarks, try the sites in the links below. Searching on "%enstein" resulted in numerous hits, so you'll need more letters for positive identification. Keep it up!

https://www.stampsx.com/ratgeber/st...atenbank.php
http://www.philastempel.de/stempel/suchen/ort


Edit: when adding the letters 'Ostpr.' in the search at Stempeldatenbank, the results are narrowed down to few possibilities, probably 'Bartenstein' or 'Breitenstein'. Both were in East Prussia, so after the borders were adjusted following WWII, these places are now longer in Germany and thus do not use German stamps anymore. Hence your stamp can be considered as 'forerunner'.

Thanks Blaamand !

I will research rom your links tomorrow (manana !)

Renden, the cancel on your 1936 stamp is probably Bartenstein, East Prussia (OSTPR on the stamp).

Oops, didn't see Blaamand's response. Here is another one.

Thanks to all !

The great Bartenstein strike above leads me to comment that I think it's a good idea to append to the mounting of postmarks whose cities/towns are no longer in that country the information of where they are now. For instance, Bartenstein, East Prussia, Germany is NOW Bartoszyce, Poland.
Several countries lost extensive territories -- among them Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, USSR. Some entities -- like British India -- have been broken up into several countries. Why not make the record complete when you mount the postmarks of cities/towns no longer in those countries?

Edmund, I agree, have been doing this for ages. India (like you say) and other countries like Turkey, Austria, Germany etc are all just heaven for us that are keen on the possibility of finding these postmarks

I do the same when I find them so I have a page of Warsaw postmarks on imperial Russian stamps, three pages of Finnish postmarks on imperial Russian stamps, etc. and include these in my Poland and Finland albums.

I saw a fascinating post on another board recently where someone had pointed out the possibility of using postmarks to identify usage at the time in countries which now no longer exist and which did not have their own stamps at that time.

This is something I'd like to investigate further some day. There were many German states like this.

For example I have just one revenue stamp issued by the small German state of Saxe-Altenburg. This was issued when the state was already part of the German Empire.

Saxe-Altenburg had never issued its own postage stamps. At first the postal service was provided by Saxony and then by the North German Confederation.

It should be possible to find Saxony and North German Confederation stamps with Altenburg postmarks (and possibly also postmarks from other locations in the state).

These would be a postal representation of what was at the time a small but sovereign state.

Usage in many other German states could be identified from postmarks on stamps of the Thurn and Taxis postal service.

Here's my revenue stamp from Saxe-Altenburg.

Forbin only lists one set and this has twelve values issued in 1899 all with the same design.

This is the 50pf. stamp, Forbin #4: