Germania Town Cancels

[voneschenbach]

Hi All,

I have been enjoying saving imperial issues with legible town cancellations, especially from towns/cities that are no longer within the modern borders. I have been using 1914 maps but they often lack the detail of smaller towns - is there a resource that lists towns from this era? Is collecting town cancellations even a thing?

Thanks in advance!

[khj]

Somebody may have a resource/link, but the 2 most likely I am going to tag -- PostmasterGS and sforgca.

[Butterfly]

I really like socked on the nose types with town names & dates.  I collect Austro-Hungarian empire and Germany stamps and have fun figuring out the town names.  There seem to be quite a few old maps available on the net. Here is one I managed to find again for Austro-Hungary about1910.

  lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm

When you get to 50 maybe we can trade a few.

PS:  I guess you've likely already figured out Woyens is now Vojens, Denmark?

[voneschenbach]

Jun 23, 2022 14:43:21 GMT -5 Butterfly said:

I really like socked on the nose types with town names & dates.  I collect Austro-Hungarian empire and Germany stamps and have fun figuring out the town names.  There seem to be quite a few old maps available on the net. Here is one I managed to find again for Austro-Hungary about1910.

  lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm

When you get to 50 maybe we can trade a few.

PS:  I guess you've likely already figured out Woyens is now Vojens, Denmark?

Thank you - now I'll have to add Austro-Hungarian stamps from the era into the mix

On the Woyens/Vojens cancel, I spent some time in Flensburg so always enjoy finding cancels from that area.

[darkormex]

I posted this same image on my FB blog but thought I should share it here since this thread was created. This is Sc. no. 58, Mi. no. 59, the 30 pfennig and is one of two I am missing from this issue, the other is the 80pf. This stamp has the added bonus of having a clear Osnabruck, SON cancel, which, if I am reading it correctly, was postmarked on September 30, 1900.

[voneschenbach]

That's a beauty - thanks for sharing!