Postmark Theme, New, Old, How Or Why.

Funafuti Tuvalu has finally got a legible postmark after years of an illegible blob.

You cannot get a cover cancelled much better than this, and it is not philatelic.

Very nice But ( you knew that was coming, didn't you?), how do you know it isn't philatelic?

Jubilee, I know bills are coming and they are not philatelic!

Its been a while since the last Diego Suarez post...here is another...

The perfect SON
raises alarmbells, philatelic perhaps,
perfectly placed between 4 other strikes,
and should not the inner CDS ring be slotted?
Comments?

Philatelic! Philatelic?

Why, the nerve! I'll show you philatelic...




(Same date, same cancel, same m.o...yeah, its suspicious. Still pretty. And the underlying stamps pass muster.)



Seriously, I didn't dig anything out, but I looked at five used D-S stamps close at hand, and all had solid rings...I'll have to do some more digging...

hehe
sorry to get your shackles up. :)
Could it be, perhaps CTO?
I checked all over for forged postmarks,
none evident, but the opts have been forged.
No denying, still a nice stamp.

A couple of years ago, after an enquiry on Diego Suarez
a colleague emailed me a postcard of a public execution dated 1911
So it has been a fairly wild place.
It holds interest for me with imaginations of the tramp steamer
paquets servicing all the Islands, Nossi Be, Mayotte etc.

Diego Suarez :

When collecting as a kid, I could never understand why all of those little "colonies" appeared so close together on a map. I couldn't figure out what the point would be. Back then, history was not just a mouse click away...

Hey! I hear you.
I don't have such a long collecting history behind me as you,
but I have wondered the same thing.
Why were certain areas important? especially the more obtuse locations. There is an interconnectedness in all things, but
one has to discover it.
I thing originally Diego Suarez was an important coaling station
for shipping, the same goes for another strange one, Obock.

This stamp doesn't look like much, but the postmark is Wei Hai Wei (Port Edward), which I was happy to find earlier this week.



There are several interesting postmark possibilities on the China overprints.

Very nice cjd. I like looking for Chinese postmarks on the unoverprinted stamps of Hong Kong

What might they be Collin?

I have ??? TOW
BRITISH ???
??IA Br PO

'???TOW' looks likely to be 'SWATOW' to me, Rod.

Cheers Tony,
I only knew the 5 main treaty ports,
now I see there are 80 more