Postmarks.day By Day

Hard to read but I think this is a 17 November, from Bremen.

Tuesday November 18, 2025

Not one of the best impressions I have provided. However, using the Imagesleuth app, I can confirm the postmark reads as follows:
ANSE ROYALE NO 18 05
I struggled with the 8, thinking maybe it is a 9, and which ANSE it was. I first thought it started with a B, but after searching town names and looking at other Seychelles stamps I have, I realized the second part of the town name began with an R.

Stamp World catalogue number is Seychelles 45. It was issued in 1903. This is the 45-cent value featuring King Edward VII.

So, I wondered where the name for this country came from and here is that story: In 1756, French Captain Nicolas Murphey claimed the islands for France and named the main island "Ile de Séchelles" in honor of Jean Moreau de Séchelles, who was the Minister of Finance under King Louis XV.

There are 115 islands in the Seychelles but only three islands are inhabited.

Also for today...canceled November 18, 1970 at Kildorrery, Ireland.

Canada Scott 436

FDC postmarked NOVEMBER 18 1964 at OTTAWA ONTARIO CANADA

Wednesday November 19, 2025

The postmarks read GENERAL POST OFFICE 19 NO 38 OCEAN ISLAND. Ocean Island, once known for its phosphate mining, is the most western island in what was known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. (See the red dot on the map for its location.

The stamps on the mailing are late usage of the 1912 King George V series. Their STAMPWORLD catalogue numbers are (1d) 13 or 27, (2d) 14 or 29 and (4d) 17. The watermark would determine the precise number.
Ocean Island is now known as Banaba and is part of Kiribati.

Double Feature



GADZEMA 19 NOV 1910 RHODESIA
This is the two penny and a half stamp from the 1910 series marking the ascension of King George V and Queen Mary following the death of his father who was never commemorated on a British South Africa Company stamp. It is STAMPWORLD catalogue number 109a.
Gadzema was a town that grew around a railway station where gold was discovered in 1905. By 1920 the station closed as the gold supply was exhausted. Today Gadzema is a village in Zimbabwe.

Thursday November 20, 2025



DESROCHES ISLAND * NO 20 68 B.I.O.T.

Desroches Island or Île Desroches is the main island of the Amirante Islands, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. It is located 227 km southwest of the national capital Victoria.
Desroches Island was named in honor of François Julien des Roches, Governor of Île de France (now Mauritius).
It was temporarily separated from Seychelles to join the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965 but was returned to Seychelles upon its independence in 1976. The island has transitioned from a copra plantation to becoming a tourism-focused destination with the first hotel built in 1987 and now hosts luxury resorts and conservation efforts.
Fewer than 100 permanent residents live on the island today. Checking with the Seychelles post office website, there is no indication that the island has a post office at this time.

STAMPWORLD (online) catalogue number is BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY number 16 for this 5-cent value of the 1968 marine life series featuring lethrinus crocineus. Lascar is the local name for this fish.



Meanwhile in the previous century


Larnaca is a city on the southeast coast of Cyprus.
LARNACA A NO 20 ?8
The year is probably either 1888 or 1898 but the impression fails to reveal the decade the stamp was used.
STAMPWORLD catalogue number for this 1882 one color six piastre stamp is CYPRUS 21a.

Also for today...canceled November 20, 1916 at Osijek, then in Hungary, now in Croatia.

Austria postal stationery cut out

Cancelled on NOVEMBER 20 1903 at ROTTENMANN

Friday November 21, 2025
GABERONES NO 21 B.P.



The stamp is STAMPWORLD (online) catalogue number 27, half-penny on three-penny from 1888 for BRITISH BECHUANALAND. The portrait underneath the overprint is Queen Victoria. The postmark is from a town in what was the BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE. British Bechuanaland became part of the Cape Colony in 1895, which later became part of South Africa. The Bechuanaland Protectorate became independent Botswana in 1966.

Also for today...canceled November 21, 1938 at Stora Esslingen, Sweden.

OOPS!

Another OOPS!

Saturday November 22, 2025
R.R. POSTE ITALIANE 22.11.17 PECHINO CINA

The stamp is a one-lira Italian definitive overprinted with PECHINO and 40 CENTS. The STAMPWORLD catalogue number is Italian Post China number 8, issued in 1917. This stamp was used at the Italian post office in Peking China. Peking is now known as Beijing.

1917 was the year John Kennedy was born.
Here is a cover I discovered online which features the former American president.

The American stamp (Scott #1246) is postmarked ARMY & AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE APO 633 22 NOV 1964 while the German stamp (Scott #901) is postmarked WIESBADEN 22 NOV 1964. 62. Also in the German postmark are the words: In Memoriam John F. Kennedy and Philate Listen Gedachthnis Ausstelens . The latter phrase in German translates (roughly) Philately List/Memorial/Exhibition. The cover marked the first anniversary of the President's assassination.

Also for today...canceled November 22, 1926 somewhere in Ireland.

Sunday November 23, 2025



NZ WELLINGTON 23 NO 88
This revenue stamp from New Zealand is listed by STAMPWORLD as number 13. The 1-pound stamp is part of a series of stamps inscribed STAMP DUTY that were issued between 1882 and 1888. It features Queen Victoria.

Meanwhile, 61 years later someone posted a letter in the Seychelles.
VICTORIA B 23 NO 49 SEYCHELLES


The stamp is Seychelles number 150 (STAMPWORLD online catalogue) and this 18-cent stamp commemorates the 75th. anniversary of the Universal Postal Union.