Postmark Theme, New, Old, How Or Why.

A couple I found recently.

This one is from one of the times we had to assign more telephone numbers in UK.



and a pretty tourist one from Switzerland.

Postmarks are a very special part
of this great hobby of ours.
AnthonyUK's post is a very good example of this.
Thanks! KGV

A couple of interesting postmarks on Hong Kong stamps...

Amoy Treaty Port on a Queen Victoria:




and Hong Kong University on an Edward VII:

Xiamen = Tszeming = Amoy





Treaty Ports from the Stamp Atlas

Great map.

just for Puzzler, an octagon traveling post office cancel from Spain (the AMB for ambulante is the give-away...the DESC stands for Descendente, and I think that means the route was headed toward Madrid, though I may have that backward.)



This stamp also qualifies for the no-country-name thread.

Nice Pegasus too.

I do hexagons but I do find that here at SCF and at the stamp club here in Halifax nearly everyone likes to think of octagons as hexagons. Even on ebay a lot of people seem to think that 8 sides mean six sides.

I am just going to have to give up the fight and collect octagons now too.

Could be worse gfates I suppose.

I picked out this otherwise-sort-of-sad little stamp because I just kept telling myself I saw "RPO" in the cancel, and I couldn't get my arms around it. Didn't fit the railway cancels I was familiar with from Down Under.



Those of you who know that there is a Liverpool, NSW (I've only recently joined that fold) will immediately i.d. what I was looking at...took my eyes quite a while to see it...

aka "Orphan Stamps"

Well done on the Liverpool Pmk
does look like RPO
That's a major solve :)

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Well, now, if it's hexagons you want, India can do that.

Here are a couple from Kashmir (Cashmere in the old spelling). One going to Bombay, where it received a hexagonal Bombay date stamp





And the other, again probably from Srinagar in Kashmir, which seems to have gone to British India via the alternative, Western route through Poonch and Rawalpindi (Rawul Pindee) to Amritsar (Umritsar)





There would have been postage due on the first cover, because it had only two Kashmir ½ Anna stamps, and no British Indian for carriage on from Kashmir territory to Bombay. Perhaps that's the significance of the hexagonal Bombay date stamp. The second cover does have a British Indian ½ Anna stamp in addition to the Kashmir ½ Anna stamp.

Very nice, Thanks Tony.

A few more interesting postmarks...

A Moroccan local post



Obock with the circular Djibouti cancel



Ceylon fragment



The entire post office would read Uda Pussellawa, I believe, but that next to last letter looks more like an "M" than a "W" to me. For that matter, the "A" looks inverted, too.

Here are a few old cork cancels

A very attractive collection. Russ!
Thanks for sharing. John