Date 1900 or 1920 ??

CAn anyone tell me the date of this postmark, 1900 or 1920. ??.
Thanks.

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Mette wrote:

"Alan" skrev i en meddelelse
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CAn anyone tell me the date of this postmark, 1900 or 1920. ??.
Thanks.

http://cjoint.com/?gloqPcjKBb


Good question :-) My guess is 1900, cancelled between 19-20 hs. If there's
a stamp somewhere on the cover, that might be a clue, depending on its
issuance year.
Mette



No stamp, but I think you are right . Its on a postcard which would
have been issued around 1900.
Thanks
Alan

Mette wrote:
"Alan" skrev i en meddelelse
...
CAn anyone tell me the date of this postmark, 1900 or 1920. ??.
Thanks.

http://cjoint.com/?gloqPcjKBb

Good question :-) My guess is 1900, cancelled between 19-20 hs. If there's
a stamp somewhere on the cover, that might be a clue, depending on its
issuance year.
Mette


I concur with Mette's opinion.

Here is a 1900 registered letter from Anvers to London UK.
http://cjoint.com/data/glqmQWYe3V.htm

It was mailed from Anvers on 17 April 1900 between 19hrs
and 20hrs (7-8 PM). The London cancel confirms the year.
http://cjoint.com/data/glqporuu8y.htm

Blair

Alan--Little more than a "me too" admittedly, but the cancel is "1900." Around the turn of the century (19th to 20th
turn, that is), Belgium often used only the last two digits of the year in postmarks. Thus the "00" at the bottom
represents 1900. On some of the parcel post cancellations, they even cut the number of digits down to 1, such as "-4"
for 1904. I think I've even seen just a single digit without even the dash in front, but I can't find an example in my
collection, so the memory may be wrong.

As Mette has already pointed out, the mail was sorted and canceled between 19:00 and 20:00, or 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for
those of us living in the U.S.

Stan

"Alan" wrote in message ...
CAn anyone tell me the date of this postmark, 1900 or 1920. ??.
Thanks.

http://cjoint.com/?gloqPcjKBb

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:02:31 -0400, "Stan Fairchild"
wrote:

Further, you will many - yes many variations on this theme. You will
also see some of the date seemingly blocked out with a black
rectangle. This sometimes means the canceller didn't have the part of
the date all the way down to where it made contact on the paper -or-
was too lazy to do it.

All this gets even more confusing during World War I. Provisional
cancels abound, especially on parcel post / railroad stamps.

Sometimes the time is reversed, include in the year, you name it.

Alan--Little more than a "me too" admittedly, but the cancel is "1900." Around the turn of the century (19th to 20th
turn, that is), Belgium often used only the last two digits of the year in postmarks. Thus the "00" at the bottom
represents 1900. On some of the parcel post cancellations, they even cut the number of digits down to 1, such as "-4"
for 1904. I think I've even seen just a single digit without even the dash in front, but I can't find an example in my
collection, so the memory may be wrong.

As Mette has already pointed out, the mail was sorted and canceled between 19:00 and 20:00, or 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for
those of us living in the U.S.

"Alan" wrote in message ...
CAn anyone tell me the date of this postmark, 1900 or 1920. ??.
Thanks.

http://cjoint.com/?gloqPcjKBb



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