Great looking stamps Craig. One minor note, you have a date of 1967 in the paragraph, when it should be 1867. I know you dont want to redo the page, so get your pen out and make the 9 into an 8.....
Great looking stamps Craig. One minor note, you have a date of 1967 in the paragraph, when it should be 1867. I know you dont want to redo the page, so get your pen out and make the 9 into an 8.....
Aargh! I'll redo the page. It's not that hard to do, just fix the typo (why do these things slip past me?), reprint, and remount. Since these are used, I just hinged them on.
Thanks for the heads up, Kris. Want a job as a copy editor? It doesn't pay much, but it'll score you points at the Pearly Gates!
Thurn and Taxis is not a state but rather a postal service based in Frankfurt and run by a noble family based in Regensburg that organized mail to German states that did not set up postal services of their own. Alas the postmarks, if legible, only provide a number. One can use that number to identify the town on the table here: www.stamp-collecting-world.com/thurnandtaxis_southern.html and then google it to see what country it was in at the time. 220, for example, was the Free City of Frankfurt.
The Michel specialized catalog, as far as I can decipher it, only provides the regions Thurn and Taxis operated in but not the countries. Google Books led me to a nineteenth-century source listing the countries. For the Northern District (square stamps with currency in Groschen), these were: Electorate of Hesse Saxe-Weimar (grand Duchy of) Schwartzenbourg-Sondershausen (Principality) Rause (Principality) Lippe (Principality) Bremen Hamburg Lübeck
For the Southern District (round design with currency in Kreuzer): Grand Duchy of Hesse Hohenzollern (Principality) Nassau (Grand Duchy) Saxe-Meiningen (Grand Duchy) Saxe-Cobourg (Grand Duchy) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (Principality) Hesse-Hombourg (Landgrave) Frankfurt
I see in kacyds,' post above, #24. That is Gelnhausen according to the table in my link. Wikipedia places it in the Electorate of Hesse, apparently also known as Hesse-Kassel.
Are there any resources that would make it easier for me to connect postmarks with countries? This afternoon, I have laboriously added Frankfurt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Kassel, Rause, Saxe-Weimar, and possibly Nassau to my tally of countries represented in my collection.
Last Edit: Apr 29, 2016 17:03:57 GMT -5 by greaden
I collect each country, dead or alive, but focus on France, French African colonies, older German area, allegorical men, carnivorous plants, Vikings, rock art, engraved pictorials.
A list of German states that were members of the German Confederation between 1815 and 1866 is here: home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/ger1871.html. Anhalt-Dessau and Waldeck used Prussian stamps, and my next task will be to find what postmarks to seek out.
Edit: Saxe-Altenburg is a German state that is unaccounted for. Does anyone know what stamps it used?
Here is my revised list of states for the purpose of building and organizing a TnT collection. I am arranging it first by region and then by the distinction between northern and southern districts, marked here as (N) and (S), respectively. The numbers refer to the numeric cancels initially allocated to each town. Others were added later, and apparently haphazardly.
If anyone is familiar with this topic, please make corrections and suggestions.
(N) HANSEATIC STATES Hamburg (300) Bremen (301) Lübeck (302)
HESSE (N) Electorate of Hesse/Hesse-Kassel (1-87) (S) Grand Duchy of Hesse/Hesse-Darmstadt (88-165) (S) Landgrave of Hesse/Hesse-Homburg (218-219) (S) Grand Duchy of Nassau (166-216) (S) Free City of Frankfurt (220)
HOHENZOLLERN (303-306) (S) Principality of Hohenzollern-Heckingen (S) Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
LIPPE (316-334) (N) Principality of Lippe /Lippe-Detmold (N) Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
THURINGIA (N) Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (221-251) (S) Grand Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen (252-269) Grand Duchy of (S)Saxe-Coburg and (N)Gotha (270-280) (N) Principality of Schwartzburg-Sondershausen (281-283) (S) Principality of Schartzburg-Rudolstadt (284-289) (N) Principality of Reuss-Gera (older line) (290-299 for both Reusses) (N) Principality of Reuss-Greiz (younger line)
I collect each country, dead or alive, but focus on France, French African colonies, older German area, allegorical men, carnivorous plants, Vikings, rock art, engraved pictorials.
I collect each country, dead or alive, but focus on France, French African colonies, older German area, allegorical men, carnivorous plants, Vikings, rock art, engraved pictorials.
Are there pointers for identifying forged T&T postmarks?
I collect each country, dead or alive, but focus on France, French African colonies, older German area, allegorical men, carnivorous plants, Vikings, rock art, engraved pictorials.
There are the five numbers used by Fournier, but are there others? I am suspicious of any postmarks on the last round of rouletted stamps printed just before Prussia/Germany took over the t&t postal service - those are maybe $1 mint and $1000 used.
I collect each country, dead or alive, but focus on France, French African colonies, older German area, allegorical men, carnivorous plants, Vikings, rock art, engraved pictorials.
greaden I guess you are right to be suspicious. The Scott Classic Catalogue - which is what I use for classic stamps of most non-British-Commonwealth countries - has a generally worded alert about forgeries of cancellations. And catalogue.klaseboer.com/vol1/html/thurncan.htm states (at the bottom of the page) that forged cancellations are common on remaindered stamps.
Here is a cover using a strip of three Scott 42 TnT stamps from the great and glorious Principality of Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, addressed to somebody named Ludwig in Erfurt:
I collect each country, dead or alive, but focus on France, French African colonies, older German area, allegorical men, carnivorous plants, Vikings, rock art, engraved pictorials.
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