Right place, wrong place? Stamps used in other places

norvic · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 23:32:13 pm

On reflection I may be wrong as the CORREIO is not centered. If you can work out what the letters above it are, we might be able to do more.

Rai · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 20:47:39 pm

Hello,

The handstamp of the second stamp showed by huanga, is not a Spanish one. I think is a Portugueese one: "CORREIO". In spanish correct words for Post Office are : "CORREO", or more usually their plural "CORREOS".

I can´t see very well the text above, I think their 3 last characters are: "...Ã‡AO". But this string has at least 7 characters.

Cheers

huanga · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 21:24:35 pm

Rai. I have had a look under a strong light and the word is.'CORREIO.' I guess that returns the stamp to Macau.

Huanga.

Rai · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 22:29:26 pm

Hello huanga,

Here is an image filtered with photoshop to help us. I can see "...EÃ‡AO".

You need the opinion of a Portugal expert, I think

I`m new in this web and is wanderfull to change some words with someone in the antipodes

Cheers

Rai · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 03:32:11 am

Spanish stamps from King Alfonso XIII, with english paquebot handstamps.

Cheers

norvic · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 20:45:37 pm

Very nice, especially on cover.

Lundy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 07:35:06 am

Here is one I found in an old collection I bought Hong Kong on a Japanese stamp.

Lundy

Lundy · **Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2011 07:11:48 am

Honduras with New Orleans, USA cancel

Lundy

joelk · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 03:40:19 am

I really like this one. And yes, I'm aware it was used at a British P.O., so not technically 'wrong place', but still unusual and (to me) spectacular):

Jacmel, Haiti

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 07:17:10 am

That's a very nice 'used abroad' high value

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 07:24:44 am

How about Yokohama...

Cheers,

Mike (Not Bruce)

joelk · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 07:52:01 am

norvic wrote:

That's a very nice 'used abroad' high value

Thank you Ian!

Only 'used abroad' and not used abroad, but thank you for the kind compliment.

Lundy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 07:08:45 am

Here are a couple I picked up recently, a nice Durban, Natal on Mauritius and a Port De France (which is now Noumea) to Ca....ne tpo?

Grateful for any help with the latter one which I am struggling to identify

Thanks

Lundy

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 09:38:19 am

Since the original stamp is from St. Lucia, may I suggest Fort-de-France (receiving mark), capital of nearby Martinique? That may give a clue to the other word, which I haven't deciphered yet.

Lundy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 21:02:39 pm

Thank you Doug!

You have steered me to the answer, it is Fort de France Martinique to Cayenne - French Guiana

Thanks again

Lundy

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 22:05:14 pm

It may be a ship cancel, from a regular run from Fort-de-France to Cayenne. There are 2 more letters at the bottom of the cancel, in front of "Fort" that we haven't accounted for yet.

A simple receiving mark at Cayenne would not make reference to Fort-de-France, would it?

IF an obscure SON ship cancel, this stamp has the potential to be quite valuable; not only a perfect postmark, but off-country as well.

Surely someone on SB has the book on 19th Century French maritime cancels.

Summo · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 01:00:37 am

Hi all,

Auckland, New Zealand, on Australia 2d KGV orange.

Regards,

Summo.

manfaefife · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 17:50:05 pm

Nice Wellington, NZ postmark on Australia 1d Green

crazylister1 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 09:09:51 am

Keeping in the NZ postmark theme, here is my find i found in a bulk envelope of these NSW stamps

Lundy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 07:12:11 am

I just posted this in the on-piece thread as well,

French used in Alexandria,

Lundy

Bunge · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 13:19:54 pm

I have a Victorian State state stamp with a Tasmanian Barred Numeral cancel..

The Barred Numeral cancel (((52))) is of Launceston, Tasmania.. I won this stamp on ebay with some others at Auction.. I thought the BN cancel was of JANEFIELD - Rated RRRR.. So did the other bidder obviously, as we took this up into the $45.00 mark, so I paid way too much for the Lot I won (I wish I knew then what I know now !!).. The BN cancel of Janefield in Victoria is totally different and only has 2 side bars ((52))

So I fell for the trap, only being armed with a tiny bit of knowledge about BNs.. Thanks to mcgooley here in Stampboards my knowledge has evolved 10 fold..

Cheers Bunge

Lundy · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2011 07:41:21 am

Here is a nice Finnish stamp with a sock on the nose Stockholm cancel:

Lundy

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 23:35:39 pm

Lundy wrote:

I just posted this in the on-piece thread as well,

French used in Alexandria,

Lundy

VERY nice.

doug2222usa · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 01:08:46 am

French stamps overprinted "Alexandrie" did not appear until 1899, so maybe French stamps were the norm until the turn of the century.

What was the alternative in 1879, using Egyptian stamps and its primitive postal system?

nigelc · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 01:19:22 am

doug2222usa wrote:

French stamps overprinted "Alexandrie" did not appear until 1899, so maybe French stamps were the norm until the turn of the century.

HI Doug, that's spot on. The French Post Office in Alexandria used French stamps for many years until it got its own stamps.

Kainnikanada · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 09:17:27 am

The "New Britain Corporation" managed coconut plantations on Bougainville (part of German New Guinea), adjacent to the northern British Solomon Islands (BSI), preceding the Australian occupation in 1914.

Similar to the situation at Morobe, where the district office expediently sent occupation/regular mail through Ioma, Papua (see example below) rather than the circuitous routing to Rabaul and then Australia, here the business sent mail through Shortland, BSI to meet the ships running between Tulagi and Australia - again not wanting to send anything through Rabaul.

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From an item cancelled at Morobe, with the captured German administration hand stamp, then carried overland by a "Police" runner and accepted by the Papua administration (with whom the Australian Forces had an agreement to use this routing) at Ioma and forwarded.

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Many of the items seen, addressed to The New Britain Corporation, have only NWPI overprinted stamps franking the covers. This one has a combination of stamps.

Possibly franked with the BSI 1d Geo V stamp by the district office in Kieta, Bougainville or by the captain of the vessel that carried the cover or by the Solomons administration at Shortlands.

Front of cover:

Back of cover:

Grich · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 20:43:49 pm

I got this unusual item from a fellow Stampboarder:
An Australian and Hong Kong stamp together posted in the Aussie mail. Obviously a postcard that was meant to have been posted inn Hong Kong, but still very interesting:

REASON FOR EDIT: some obvious spelling errors

Micky · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 18:00:37 pm

Hi, I think this one belongs here, I can't seem to find Auckland in Australia.

Micky

maturin · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 15:09:41 pm

Stamps of Slovenia, used on a post card to the USA from Italy.

San Martino di Lupari is in the modern state of Venice. Bled (yuck, who named the town?) is the subject of this pretty postcard, and located in Slovenia. An Italian tourist mailed it after she got home from Bled.

huanga · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 18:41:29 pm

Two Victorian Victoria stamps. SG246a postmarked 'Dunfdin' which means the postal clerk was hurried, or could not spell Dunedin? SG305a postmarked Bluff, which is about as far south on the mainland as you can go.

To return the favour two pairs of New Zealand stamps post marked Sydney. SG405 and SG468.

Unscrupulous Australians will tell you that things have not changed. For every Aussie that visits here. Two Kiwis land there!

Huanga

PeterS · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 20:06:41 pm

huanga wrote:

Unscrupulous Australians will tell you that things have not changed. For every Aussie that visits here. Two Kiwis land there!

Huanga

And the Aussies return home, whilst the Kiwis don't!

huanga · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 20:13:38 pm

Which as I pointed out on another post Peter. More than doubles the IQ of the Australian population!!

Huanga.

PeterS · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 06:53:21 am

Whatever you say, Huanga, whatever you say.

Remember, must humour him...MUST humour him!

huanga · **Posted:** Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:49:16 am

Three Hong Kong QV stamps postmarked Y1 for Yokohama. The stamps are;
SG[Z]36 [Z]40 [Z]43.

Huanga.

patg · **Posted:** Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:45:53 pm

Found this answer for me. (not sure about the "was ended" date)

pat

clairwj wrote:

As a general rule, an Embassy is in the country's capital city. Consulates are sub offices of the Embassy in cities outside the capital. The head of a Consulate is usually called the Consul General. I believe that the franking privilege is given to an official installation of a foreign country so long as the same privilege is reciprocated. It is usually restricted to official business correspondence. Like most postal history items, they are collectible. Mail that was sent from US Embassies or Consulates that uses postage of the host country but sent via diplomatic pouch to Washington's Department of State is of great interest to US collectors. It was usually stamped by the State Department's Mail Room: "This article originally mailed in country indicated by postage" . The practice was ended in the late '50s.

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 02:19:48 am

My latest addition to my GB used in Malta collection:

HalfpennyYellow · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 04:39:37 am

More GB used in Malta I got recently from eBay:

JB GBM66 -
1868 QV 3d rose (SG 103) plate 5

JB GBM92 -
1874 QV 6d grey (SG 147) plate 13

unlisted as it was never officially authorised for use in Malta -
1902 KEVII 1d scarlet (SG 219)

Frank_King · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 03:25:19 am

Back in October, Lundy asked about:

joelk wrote:

Grateful for any help with the latter one which I am struggling to identify

Lundy

to which doug2222usa replied

doug2222usa wrote:

It may be a ship cancel, from a regular run from Fort-de-France to Cayenne. There are 2 more letters at the bottom of the cancel, in front of "Fort" that we haven't accounted for yet.

As nobody has yet responded, it is a ship cancel.

The bottom two letters are L.C. which stands for Ligne C, which was the regular run from Fort de France to Cayenne, and return (which would have used a cancel Cayenne a Fort de France).

According to my source this line had a post office from 1865 to 1940, and ran from Fort de France via St. Lucia, Port of Spain, Demerara, and Paramaribo to Cayenne.

This particular octagon cancel was in use from 1901 to 1935.

Frank_king

Lundy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 06:26:16 am

Thank you very much for the additional information Frank,

I can now write it up apprapriately in my collection.

Lundy

Bunge · **Posted:** Fri Apr 27, 2012 21:58:41 pm

Hi Stampers, I picked this up the other day on ebay and am still waiting for it to arrive, but my curiosity has got the better of me :shock:

I am wondering if this cancel is "Bristol", "Brighton" or perhaps another place in England..

Any information on the cancel would be appreciated..

Cheers Bunge

PeterS · **Posted:** Fri Apr 27, 2012 22:07:03 pm

Bunge, looks like QUEENSLAND at base of cancel, and MARKETS BRISBANE at top..

Bunge · **Posted:** Fri Apr 27, 2012 22:18:58 pm

Thanks Peter, I cannot see as well as I once did

Now I can see it..

When I bought it on ebay the Seller had it listed as cancelled in England, so I thought I had a "Right Place, Wrong Place" stamp..

Oh well, it didn't cost me much

Thanks again for your help Peter
Bunge

norvic · **Posted:** Sat Apr 28, 2012 01:27:36 am

As a matter of reference, no operational postmarks in the UK have ENGLAND (or Scotland, or Wales) at the foot.

manfaefife · **Posted:** Sat Apr 28, 2012 04:17:50 am

Taking a liberty with this one which I assume is commonplace. Geelong, Victoria Double Ring on a Queensland pair of stamps. There's a TPO in there as well though I can't quite make it out.

PeterS · **Posted:** Sat Apr 28, 2012 07:28:51 am

Donald, not as common as you would think. Stamps from the various States were not usable in other States till 1910 and were never sold by other State Post Offices. This was even though they were Commonwealth issues (in effect), since the Post Office became a Commonwealth responsibility at Federation (from March 1901).

manfaefife · **Posted:** Sat Apr 28, 2012 07:39:18 am

Thanks for your reply Peter. This one looks like it's 1910 so legitimate usage ? Pity I can't make out the TPO.

tonymacg · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:45:30 am

This one is perhaps from a grey area also:

It's an SG 1 of Las Bela State, postmarked Karachi.

Las Bela was a State in Baluchistan, northwest of Karachi. Around 1900 when this stamp was used, there was no British Indian post office in Las Bela, so the ruler of Las Bela organised a mail run from Las Bela down to Karachi, the nearest major centre in British India. In fact, he maintained a Las Bela State Post Office in Karachi. The Karachi office also received, and postmarked, mail going to Las Bela, and forwarded it on. This stamp is an example of this use of Las Bela State stamps in what was, strictly speaking, British India.

Micky · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 18:20:03 pm

Hi, hope I have the right thread for this one. Can someone assist on the LOOSE part of the cancel?

Michael

Lundy · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2012 02:26:36 am

One that I picked up at the weekend, Tobago with an Aberdeen (Scotland) cancel.

Lundy

norvic · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2012 07:03:12 am

Micky wrote:

Hi, hope I have the right thread for this one. Can someone assist on the LOOSE part of the cancel?

Michael

In other places there are boxes postal markings reading LOOSE LETTER.
I think these were applied to mail handed in by ship's captains as distinct from those already postmarked in the originating country and sent in a sack. Although there doesn't seem to be room for this to read 'LOOSE LETTER', it may just be 'LOOSE' - which everybody who need to would know the meaning of at that time.


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