Yesterday was rainy, chilly, and windy in Oklahoma, a perfect stamp collecting day, and I spent a portion of it sorting bullseye cancels. I had accumulated quite a few and I filled a page with Finland stamps in addition to rediscovering the French cancel below. While it is canted to the left side of the stamp, it is a better quality cancel than many I find from France. The French cancelers hit the stamps well, but the canceling devices are consistently under-inked and the cancels faint. This one is quite bold. What, though, was the bourse following the town name? A postal station, perhaps, in the central market area? Don The French cancel
Don.....yes,I believe this is the name of the post office or station...Strasbourg Bourse....nice postmark
Hi Molokai: Unusual, indeed, at least to me. I don't remember seeing one of these stamps before. What was it used for? What is its time period of use? I don't see any value on it, was there a fee charged for its use? Don
Hi Molokai: Well, I found an article (and catalog) for the Customs Stamp you posted. It explains that these stamps are considered revenues and were used to indicate that a piece of baggage had been inspected and any duties due were paid. No fees for the stamp itself are indicated. See this link and keep scrolling down for the catalog: https://www.revenuer.org/pdf/US Customs Baggage Stamps.pdf Not sure what the cancel on the stamp you posted represents. Don
A clear cancel from Cyprus on a more contemporary stamp, Sc. 580, 1982, the conversion of Sergius Paulus, 175 milliemes. Don
Takis: Again, nice cancels. The two Colombian ones are to me unusual as one doesn't see many clearly struck cancels out of Latin America. The ones I see are usually messy or blurred. Here's one out of Poland in the 1920s. Don
This is the only bullseye I have from this former U.S. Trust Territory. I tend to forget about these stamps which are included in Scotts U.S. Specialized catalog. Palau is supposedly an independent republic (1981), but the USPS still operates its postal system. According to Google, Koror is Palau's largest city.
Stamps issued 1903.No real bulls-eye cancels.For sure c.t.o.. But nice cancels on not so common stamps. I guess used stamps off non-philatelic mail will be very rare.
A very nice cancel on a stamp from French Indo China,issued in 1939 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the French Revolution.
I don't see many clear bullseye cancels from Brazil, but a recent sales circuit had three of them, which I purchased. Here's one of them: Give the date of cancellation [19]44, the place of cancellation would be Rio de Janeiro, but don't know for sure?? Don
Another from Brazil that is a puzzle. Google Maps does not find a Coletam, Brazil, but Google Translate says coletam equals collect. Maybe the cover the stamp was originally on was picked up from a collection box and the cancel relates to that??? Anyone familiar with Brazilian/Portuguese postal terms? Other ideas? Don
