Postmark Theme, New, Old, How Or Why.

Don't you find that cover a little odd, Tony?

Egypt : PPO : Proprietory Post Office
(which turned out to be a misnomer)

These Hotel Postmarks have been so heavily scrutinised
they now have their own code, and no longer referred to by
their blomfield number.

(sic) WINTER PALACE LUCSOR

Winter Palace Hotel Luxor.
(wiki)





The Pride of my fleet:
(The LUCSOR cancelling hammer shows wear on the "C" which
oft times looks like "LUOSOR" )

Rod, I don't see anything odd about the Hyderabad cover. What worries you?

Broadcasting my ignorance probably,
Why does your cover show a cancellation date of 1938
whilst the cover shows a production date of 1941?

Perfectly understandable, Rod. The year is almost certainly 1341 F(asli), equivalent to 1931 CE. Hyderabad usually used Fasli years, as you can see on this charming postcard



The date line in the CDS over the stamp ends '1347 F' in Persian, or 1937 CE.

Aha! I see! tricky little blighter.

As the Duchess sang to Alice 'He only does it to annoy/Because he knows it teases'

Sorry to keep switching back and forth between stamps and Uglies, but rod, my best reference for the Fiji sunburst cancels is right here:

https://goscf.com/t/20162

Plateflaw added scans of Suva, Levuka and CTO sunbursts on page one of a KEVII thread. Without knowing it was there, you might not find it.

Many thanks Collin,
although I responded the next post, I just don't recall
seeing those before.
Great work, and appreciated.
Thanks to Plateflaw for posting them.

Do you know this one Rod. Interesting place name.

What a find!

Thought this an amusing cancel, but unsure where to post it. So this seemed as good a place as any.



That gentleman hiding in the flowers should watch out for the bees. He's about to get stung!

Bees on stamps!

Hi John
yes, I know success in Western Australia
fairly new suburb

Love your sunny australia PMK

This is my new time-waster

The small post office postmarks of the Straits Settlements in the KGV period. So I don't include the bulk of the postmarks we see, Singapore, Malacca and Penang. It might see me through till I depart this mortal coil!

This is North Canal Road, Proud type D6

Here's a nice example of the postmarks rescuing an otherwise highly unremarkable Indian Queen Victoria ½ Anna postal stationery envelope:





The indicium has been cancelled with the Indore State CDS of Indore Town for the 14 October (1)901; the backstamp is of the Gwalior (Convention) State office at Ujjain, for the 15 October 1901. The Gwalior CDS shows the GWALIOR STATE hood over the CDS, and the pair of cobras, symbolic of Gwalior, at the bottom.

Ujjain was an important religious and commercial centre, not very far from Indore Town, in Gwalior State. There was a fair amount of correspondence between the two, and in a special arrangement, Indore State maintained an extraterritorial office in Ujjain, and also maintained a postal route between Ujjain and Indore.

This cover passed over this special route. The British Indian post office in Indore turned over their mail for Ujjain for carriage by the Indore State system. Equally, British Indian mail posted in Ujjain for Indore was also carried by the Indore Post Office.