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If there's a prize for most obscure post on this thread, then I think this one should win hands down



The postmark on this Barwani State (India) ½ Anna stamp is from Pati. Pati was a small, poor and backward village in the malaria-infested jungle in the East of the State, which was a backwater itself. I suspect it was the place State officials were sent to rusticate after committing some serious blunder. The postcard was addressed to the capital, Barwani Town, and has a Barwani receiver postmark.

This is the only piece of commercial (i.e. non-government) mail I've ever come across from Pati ... and I'm not holding my breath until I find a second one

I visited Swatow a few years ago. Very swish now: all the old colonial-era buildings have been renovated into a tasteful and expensive shopping precinct, though thankfully still with a street market offering cheaper items.

I think I posted an Amoy and a Canton steamer a while back. I'll see if I can't dig out some more.

I must have missed them. Please re-post!

I don't see them in my list of posted photos. I distinctly recall putting them on a 102 card to scan. Here are some others while I hunt them up.

Canton, but not the steamer:


I believe these are the Sheung Wan Post Office?


Hankow:


Shanghai:


Looking at the preview, I should have moved them off of colored 102 cards before scanning.

The postmarks of the British Army overseas,
and the first time stamps were used outside the country of origin.
Only seen on the 1d red and 2d blue

Used in the Crimea

This thread needs another bump...

Here are two older British postmarks...
A pretty good sock on the Edward VII 4d



and then a nice hooded cancel from Liverpool on Vicky

Whenever I feel I'm getting a bit too cocky, I drag this one out



to remind myself. It took an enquiry to the India Study Circle to work out where it actually came from. It's Jhalawar SG 2, very neatly obliterated with a real socked-on-the-nose-and-all-over-the-face cancel on a British Indian postal stationery postcard to Indore. (As it was being sent outside Jhalawar State, it had to have British Indian postage paid for the carriage.)

Wow! two rippers Collin.
the hooded cancel is normally my fav,
but the 4d Essex is just too good, a ripping stamp.
(whose image now resides in my collection )


Tony, sorry to dumb down your excitement
"1st Del"
any comments?
Is that inferring guaranteed delivery next day?
or afternoon delivery of the article?
I suppose they had two deliveries per day, local.

I don't know how many deliveries they made at Indore, Rod, but at places like Bombay - if memory serves - they had up five a day.

Oh, OK
it must have had some significance at that time,
for them to put it on the canceller.

Indore would certainly have been big enough to have at least a couple of deliveries a day. Then, of course, there was the Window delivery service. I think we discussed it somewhere, though I'm not sure I have any good examples of the cancels to show.

Today I came across this special postmark (March 7 1935 was TG Masaryk's 85th birthday) but it wasn't the postmark I noticed first. The selvedge of this stamp was short-gummed, and you can see a large amount of toning at the outside of the selvedge where there was no gum. It would seem that this gum was able to serve as a barrier against paper with high acidity. Or?

Ryan

On the face of it, it would seem you are correct,
unless it was there by some mystical reason to draw
your attention to the postmark.

What an extraordinary cancel, a real beauty,
that would deserve a half page in my album.

How did you possibly know to see TGM as belonging to Masaryk ?

I'm not really into cancel study but I find this one interesting. This is Canada 1897 stamp 1c part of a set of 16 stamps (just have the 1c and 3c used). It's the Jubilee Issue to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign. The cancel show probably 1837 when she start as a queen and of course the British flag.