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Penguins aren't the first things that come to mind when you think of Bermuda...




The full slogan says something like "Bermuda Aquarium One of the World's Finest"

Interesting story, Rod.

Strahan seems to be pretty small these days...



...but Wikipedia seems to imply that it used to be busier.

(caveat: as far as my knowledge-data extends)

No chocolate eclairs for that one,

The big "missing Post Office" for this area was
STRAHAN WHARF RAILWAY closed ?/2/1921
Presumably a bag service with mail serviced at Strahan Post office.

In the state period, this used
"STRAHAN No2" c.d.s.
but this was long before the 1913

That is the postmark with no existing examples AFAIK

Pronunciation? "Stray-han", or "Straughn" ?

Typical Tasmanian Post Office c1913

Huonville, Tasmania.
Jarrah "weatherboard" facing, high pitched corrugated iron roof.

Here is a railway/traveling post office [bahnpost] cancel from Danzig. It is almost certainly the Danzig/Stutthof route, train number 53. (?)



These are easy to overlook.

You receive this weeks, "observation award" well done,
(and I have run off with your scan)
Text unknown.
Do you have any "Boite Mobile" markings in your
world wide collection?

Speaking of observations, I've looked at how many of these Danzigs? (Lots.) And I never looked close enough to notice the background. Reminds me of the "leaf" design of many months back (perhaps the revenue thread? or the "great design" thread?).

I'm repeating myself, but it is amazing how many of the commonest stamps benefit from viewing an enlargement of the stamp.

I don't think I have a stamp that has been hit with a boite mobile mark, but I think I have a movable box cancel, which is a kissing cousin. I've seen covers with the b(oite) m(obile) mark, but I don't know that I've even seen a stamp with that marking...have you one in your database that you could show?

That would set me off on yet another hunt.

I guess that was a bit unfair, the MB strike finished
around 1904, and probably never appeared on a stamp,
it was a cover mark.

I have had a close look at the Danzigs, and the markings are
strange, it seems to be a design inherant in the paper,
and not a "moire" style print.
It remains unsolved to me.

Some MB marks, I have commentary, should you require it.

Gee thanks. Something else I've never seen that I find fascinating!

Thanks for that Rod...(nice to hear from jubilee, too!)

My movable box cancel is something like Figure 3 in your illustration, if I recall correctly.

I'm going to assume that, while it is theoretically possible for a boite mobile mark to hit a stamp, its unlikely, and I can cross it off my list of things to search out.

I would agree Collin.
Welcome back Jubilee.

Thanks guys. My nw job is, well, you know.........

I have almost zero time at the moment

The letter inside this envelope said that I have a $7,5000,000 euro inheritance to be collected as I am the only relative that can be found. Some of the phrases used were "top secret, "do not tell anybody" "it is of a delicate nature", "we need to clear this issue as soon as possible". etc Yeah, sure!

Next time John keep the cover intact, with the letter.
You have to think 100 years hence.

Have you worked out yet, what "SWLF" stands for