Today I received a card with this cancellation, although it’s a special one I guess it’s not commemorative.
Saw this photo in the What postcards have you sent or received today? thread and was wondering whether Japan possibly has some kind of new postmark…
There is also one of those on my last card from Japan:
My thought was that the stamp was placed by hand, to ensure all the stamps got cancelled.
It would be interesting to get an answer to our musings !
Hey guys, sorry for my long hiatus. I’m always like this with forums: I have fun for two days, and then disappear for a month! But I’m back! I have just updated the list in the first post, so that a curious internet-wanderer can easily go through all the postmarks they’re interested in.
All the international mail from North Korea is sorted and postmarked in Pyongyang, even if you send it from other cities such as Kaesŏng, Namp’o etc. It would be super interesting to see what local North Korean postmarks look like but, obviously, it’d be super difficult for us to get them.
I haven’t added these to the list in the first post yet – let’s first find out what these are! They’re definitely postmarks, as can be seen from the letters… They’re probably hand stamps? Idk, the wobbliness in the second picture makes it very unmachine-like
I started looking through my postcards for cancellations I could add here:
Australia
- Hand and machine
- machine
Belgium hand
Belarus
- oval hand
- machine
Canada
hand
machine
Chile
hand
Czech Republic machine
Germany Schiffspost (cancelled on the ferry from Helgoland)
Algeria hand
Finland (2 different machines)
France (2 different machines)
France (Martinique) machine
UK
Honkong
hand
inkjet
India hand
Lithuania hand black
I have some more, but need to look through them first…
Hello!
Summary from postmark wikipedia - Japanese
[European language roller postmark - 欧文ローラー印]
Compared to the European round postmark, there are few post office that are deployed, and many collection and delivery post office are not deployed.
Mail items that are thick or may be damaged when cancellation, such as non-standard-sized parcels, parcels, and agricultural seedlings, and cannot be cancellation with ordinary round European postmark.
And, It’s used to cancellation a large number of stamps at once.
So I think it’s a hand.
[Japanese language roller potmark - 和文ローラー印]
I hope you understand my poor English.
Perfectly understandable English !!!
THANK YOU for the information !!!
Interesting recent arrivals: a Yellowstone National Park postmark
and an envelope from Jordan with no postmark at all
Now I looked through the rest of my postcards:
Malaysia hand
Netherlands inkjet and Switzerland hand (received that one as poste restante in Switzerland)
Norway machine
Nepal hand
Philipines hand
Portugal
hand
two different machines
Russia
hand blue ink
machine
Slovakia hand
Turkey
hand
machine
Taiwan machine
USA
hand
hand and machine
two different machines
Postmarkt from Netherlands, seems it can be used instead of stamps
Canadian cancelation from the town of Berwick
And Holiday greetings from the USA
and postmark from Great Britain, probably commemorative, but I haven’t received such before
here is some information to get some special valentines postmarks.
I don’t believe there’s been one from Liechtenstein posted here yet, but here’s one I got today from Vaduz:
Another card came in today from Lithuania, although this cancellation is not the clearest:
It’s merely by coincidence that both cards used Olympic stamps. What are the odds!
Now this is the hand cancellation
It seems that someone just used a marker pen. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
The Armenian postmark is one of my most favorite among ordinary ones. It represents a 24 hour dial and shows not only the date when the stamp was cancelled but the exact time!
I received this cancellation from Algeria:
(I needed to - digitally - cut a bit out, so the text is not readable)