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IKEA and Transformers joint venture.

"Here comes now today a card from the exhibit "Hamburg am Werk", which I visit today. It is so nice weather (??? at the moment) , that it doesnt hold me in the office.

With friendly regards"

It is broken Danish, heavily mixed with Swedish. Thordur is an icelandic name.

I fully agree with your assessment that it is a collector-to-collector cover.

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Hi Rob

If I ever get to the point, where I build an exponat for Schleswig-Holstein, I'll steal your layout Even though US mail is far beyond my knowledge-horizon, your expo slides are a joy to study!

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Ole

Hi DSBerlin

KPK refers to these as NUM 1 and NUM 2 - maybe you could use that ?

https://www.kpk.dk/stempler/
Under "Byer" type in Lauenburg

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Ole

Zitat von DSBerlin

Leider lassen sich die Marken mit Wasser nicht vom Brief lösen - keine Ahnung was da für ein Kleber für das Anbringen auf dem Brief verwendet wurde. Also Planänderung.

Have you tried Reinigungsbenzin ?

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Ole

Very interesting post and topic! Rare material, completely missing in my SH-collection!

Thanks for sharing

BH, Ole

Hi DSBerlin

All my "Abonnierte Themen" looks fine..

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Ole

Hi DSBerlin

Beautiful 2 Loth-cover!

From a Danish perspective, the most interesting Adelhaus in historic time, is the Danish King Christian IX. With a bit of luck, you can find letters written by his family, sent from Castle Glücksburg (most often written by his daughters).

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Ole

Wow, DSBerlin! Thats' an impressive series of covers!

I have just a faint idea what else you have in your collection: the stuff you've showcased alone for "my area" in Schleswig-Holstein, tells me, that you will still be a very busy person, after you retire in December

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Ole

That's an unusul, but funny story Maybe there is a boomark in the seller's collection, where this cover should have been

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Ole

Well, water under the bridge. The people of Als are known for their good spirits.
There is an old saying on Sønderjysk: "A funeral on Als is funnier than a wedding in Jutland"

Beautiful centric postmark! And a historic war date, July 1st 1864, when the last Danish soldiers left Kegnæs on Als island.

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Ole

Altsax : Sandøsund, Norway.

Great post, clearly explaining how/why the routes switched back and forth between Kiel and Lübeck. Essential knowledge. Thanks, nordlicht!

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Ole

Thank you both, for your input, which brought my a new insight.

I still can't read the postmark.

I would say, that there are 7-8 letters in the town-name-inscription of the right postmark.

CAM estimates "DANZIG", with SIX letters.

My knowledge about geography bzw Prussian Postmarks is non-existing, so I invite Prussian Postmark Experts and Hardcore-Crossword-Puzzlers to come up with a better suggestion.

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Ole

Here is a variation over the same theme - Prussian Ganzsache cut-out, mix-franked with SH#4. I can't read the right postmark, but according to Carl Aage Møller it's Altona - Danzig.

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Ole

Hi DSBerlin!

Wow!!!!! That cut-out goes very well, with the Ratzeburg-Ganzsache you showcased earlier in this thread

I am not an expert in this, but as far as I have gathered, this quite rare phenonema with SH-postmarks on Prussia, is typically with postmarks directly connected to the Hamborg - Berlin railway (postmarks from stations like Büchen, Schwarzenbeck etc). I think the Ratzeburg-uses you have are pretty rare.. Well, I know that I dont have one in my collection

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Ole

Hi Eifel Harri,

Thanks for your details.

And what a fantastic and ambitious plating project you have there - you have come very far on Ferslew! And I see many lux cancellations -beautiful!

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Ole

Hi Nordlicht,

Oh yes - the Kranhold can't stand alone in my collection now So the the hunt has begun for a Pemberton used in Schleswig-Holstein. Not the easiest object to find - do let me know, if you hear about one

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Ole

FIRE RBS-cover from Altona.

The interesting detail about this cover is, that it is franked with the plate variant of FIRE RIGSBANKSKILLING, commonly known as "Kranholds retouche".
The variant is easiest recognized in the engraving of "POST", where the re-engraved cliché on position 5, plate 2, has a smaller and more round "O" in comparison with a normal FIRE RBS.

Upper example is Kranhold, while lower is a normal engraving.

The variant exists on print 1 (Ferslew), print 2 (Thiele 1) and print 3 (Thiele 2).
But, as far as I can see, not on print 4 (Thiele 3) - not completely sure about this, but if so, I think this could be because all four plates were replaced in the Thiele 3 print..

Bonus info: The term "Kranholds retouche" is known by most Denmark-collectors, but it wasn't until a few years ago, in the researches by the late great philatelist Toke Nørby, that it was discovered who Kranhold actually was. Arnold Alexander Kranhold, was an American philatelist of Prussian heritage, who, around 1922, had access to 1000 copies of FIRE RBS, and found that 3 of these had this retouche.

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Ole