Postmark Theme, New, Old, How Or Why.

Nice but it could be a clearer cancel.

I have never seen this cancel before.
It would have to be Money Order.

Here are two covers from Travancore-Cochin State in India, that are interesting for the absence of postmarks:





By December 1951, when these covers were posted, Travancore-Cochin stamps had been invalid for three months, after the State Post Office was finally closed - the last Indian State Post Office left in India still functioning by that time.

It looks as if some clerk in a government office was trying to sneak these through, but the Indian Post Office detected them. It drew lines around the invalid stamps - and charged another arm of the Indian Government postage due

Fossil Postage....

In USA, anybody can obtain his own canceller, after obtaining a Mailer's Postmark Permit.

This is a postmark applied with my own MPP canceller:



And the backside:



I have created this non-traditional maximum card with a real photo print that I took (the squirrel is eating MY apple) in Washington, D.C. Onto the back of the "postcard" I affixed a peelable postcard backing.
I affixed the stamps, then I cancelled/postmarked them with my own postmarking device.
Finally, I have sent this UNICAT maxicard to a maximaphilist friend in Portugal.
But I still have a few such photo prints, slightly different.

In Aussie Queensland it is 6.45am 11.11.11.
East side of the USA it is 3.45pm 11.10.11.

I have been looking forward to today for some time now because I am going cancel hunting on the island and on the mainland for as many different 11.11.11 cancels as I can get. Hopefully I will be able to get some Remembrance Day minisheets or souvenir sheets as today is their 1st day of issue. Australia Post has let me down again by not supplying me with my order on time. I am friendly with 2 of the bigger PO's on the mainland so I would like to think they will have some of the minisheets on hand. I like to get the minisheets cancelled and not the stamps on the minisheets as I like to keep the stamps mailing value.
This is a huge adventure for me and it will take weeks for me to get over it but I think it is worth while.

Well Here's Hopeing. KGV.

Edit the 12.12.12 will be on a Wednesday. I am wrong! It has been removed.

Remembrance Day 11.11.2011
Redland Bay for the Red Poppy that was the only thing to grow after mustard gas was used.



To face the West to remember and Victoria for Victory.






A Very Special Day. John.

I come from a quite Island community of a couple of 1000 people and was hunting Remembrance Day minisheets (souvenir sheets) and cancels with 11.11.11 in a large shopping Mall on the mainland that would have more people in it than our Island's population by a long way. I was standing in a long line at the Mall's Post Office and the 11 minute of the 11 hour happened and the trumpet sounded and then their was a silence on an awesome level. Total silence, even the very noisy, very large food court was silent, not even the sound of a crying child. Everyone was totally still and so silent. 1000's of people in respect for those who have died at war for our freedom. The time for the silence to finish was sounded but everyone kept still. It was one of the most moving situation I have ever had the privilege to be apart of. The atmosphere was so electric. What an experience that was for all that were there. You just never know what can happen when you go cancel hunting. Wow what a day!

GB
Essex
"Chipping Walden" changed to "Saffron Walden")

(after the local industry changed from Fish and Chips to Saffron)

Not sure if I have posted this before....

France
SG0268 (1876) T0010 35c peace and commerce

Gross Chiffres, diamond dots with "5104" = Shanghai China

Heliopolis = "City of the Sun"


Quite a grand name, City of the Sun and a fitting place to start our exploration of the aerodromes and landing grounds of 113 Squadron. Heliopolis, unlike many of the desert land grounds and jungle strips that they later flew out of, is one of the few places that the squadron operated from that you could confidently point at a map and locate.


Heliopolis has history, being one of the first aerodromes in Africa. It also has geography, being a suburb of Cairo and a stopping point for those early aviators who tamed the flying beast and then went on to conquer the globe. They would stop at Heliopolis to be photographed by the Pyramids, which could be seen from the aerodrome.


By 1910 airmail was commonly sent from Heliopolis, indicating this was an important communication point. Egypt was at this stage politically an independent country but under the protectorate of the British Empire, who wished to tightly control access to the Suez Canal and ensure the lines of communication and supply to and from its furthest reaches.


At the outbreak of the First World War Heliopolis had a starker purpose. Its long flat lands were used as marshalling grounds for troops from the Anzac nations most notably in the lead up to the tragic assault on Gallipoli


In 1920 the first England to Australia Air Race was held.


"Aerodrome Heliopolis" Postmark 1915

Really like this Late Fee cancel.

Australia Post's Cancelled To Order! (CTO)
As they come when you order them.
Some call them mute cancels or flavour cancels.
But this is what they send you when you order CTO's.
The perfect cancel!

Just had to post some more! Australia Post CTO's!

My first book on postmarks, cancels.
Images of dust jacket of the 578 page hard back book.