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Yes, Grahamstown, which I haven't heard of so I assume there must have been a change of name at some stage

Maybe.......

named after Sir James R. G. Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of John Biscoe's exploration of the west side of Graham Land in 1832. It is part of British Antarctic Territory.

Well there you go. Never heard of the place!

A couple more French shapes, just for Puzzler...







I probably should have reduced the image area a bit; they look snappier in person, even though (or perhaps because) they're smaller.

Wikipedia: "Grahamstown was founded in 1812 as a military outpost by Lieutenant-Colonel John Graham as part of the effort to secure the eastern frontier of British influence in the then Cape Colony against the Xhosa, whose lands lay just to the east."

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Those are great cjd. Wow.

Great when you can read the place name La-Chaize-le-Vicomte / France.
What does the T/SABL. mean, do you know? Maybe it is T.SABLE? after dark? Mu French is terrible.

Without doing a lot of digging, I'm pretty sure I can say that that is the only scallop/ondulé cancel I have with that abbreviation in the center. I'd like to know...Google couldn't resist substituting its ideas for mine. (Yes, I tried quotation marks, and got exactly zero responses.)

Perhaps T = Taxe.

If the word is sable, Google translates that as sand or grit.

A sand tax? Perhaps road tax or sand for beaches or cement?

Taxe Sabl. Google translates as Tax sanded.

I am just guessing. I have not the French to guess at what else sabl. might be.

I have some humerous cancels. Some of them require a bit of imagination to see the funny side .


An interesting way to look at the queen and her enterprises.




The Danes think very highly of their monarch.




The first stamp I've seen with an early bird on it.




This post office seems to have enough business and doesn't want any more.

I like the way your mind works!

Fantastic Peter!

You got me laugh Peter!

A couple more cancellations that tickled my funny-bone, this time on a royal theme.

The britts obviously think quite highly of their queen.





Britts thinking more globally with regard to the queen.





Another rather flattering comment on the queen. (Just a thought, I wonder how she feels seeing her picture almost every time she sees a letter over the past 20 or so years??)




Someone obviously didn't think as highly of the king, demoting him to earl.




This cancel reminded me of "God save the queen"