 |
HELSINGFORS / HELSINKI Original print size of this image: 14,207 x 9,280 cm (is something more as the postal item) This picture and all pictures below on this page, if not mentioned otherwise: scanned about 300 dpi. Then set right and cut out - noted the actual print size-, resized 25 % of this image and saved as jpg. The postmark, resized 50 %:  |
|
KIEW The postmark has eught straight lines, serial 'a'. The -by Ivo Steijn- reported dates: 3-5-1908 up to 13-11-1921. My own items: 23-6-1908, 10-10-1908, and 17-3-1913. Another type exists: with serial 'b'. Original print size of this image: 14,563 x 11,388 cm (is something more as the postal item)  |
|
A machine-cancel of МОСКВА (MOSKVA), Moscow. In this city more KRAG-machines were placed. In the postmark we read also ЗКСПЕД. ГОР. ПОЧТ. (ZKSPED. GOR. POCHT.), Moskva expeditsiya gorodskoy pochti, 5th expeditsiya. This postmark has 8 straight lines, but the book of Kiryushkin and Robinson shows also a postmark of this office with four straight lines (24.III.1914), six straight lines (27.X.1915) and five wavy lines (27 10 16). With another type date stamp there are also used eight close-spaced straight lines (20 X.1912) and eight wide-spaced straight lines (11 7 16.) Original print size of this image: 14,131 x 8,975 cm (is something more as the postal item) |
|
|
The postmark 50 %. Reported dates: *26.V.1907(here) *1.1.1911 (Kiryushkin) | 
|
|
The first machine-cancels of ОДЕССА (ODESSA) were cancels with eight straight lines. These postmarks with straight lines are in Odessa used very short and so very rare. There are two types: serial 'a' and serial 'b'. The card here is serial 'a' , 12-10-1908. Ivo Steyn mentioned also some dates of use and so we have: Original print size of this image: 14,385 x 9,254 cm (is something more as the postal item) |  |
| The postmark, resized 50 % |  |
|
Here we see another machine-cancel of ОДЕССА (ODESSA). The machines with a flag of straight lines get a problem: the straight lines caused indentations of the inking roller. Then can some lines not (good) set on the postal item. Other types of flags are intended to solve this problem. In Odessa the authorities decided to change the postmarks to six broken waves. Of these postmarks we have also two types: serial 'a' and serial 'b'. Here we see the machine-postmark with the six broken waves with serial 'a', 16-11-1913. Original print size of this image: 14,156 x 9,187 cm (is something more as the postal item) |
|
|
|
 Original print size of this image: 14,182 x 9,153 cm (is something more as the postal item) |
The postmark, resized 50 % . Also serial 'a' with date 6-11-1913 |
 Original print size of this image: 14,156 x 9,203 cm (is something more as the postal item) |
The postmark, resized 50 %, serial 'a' , 4-5-1914.
|
| The postmark, resized 50 %, seral 'a' , 4-5-1914. | |
 |
Dates of use according Ivo Steijn with my addition: The postmarks with serial 'a': after the datestamp the waves go first up. The postmarks with serial 'b': after the date stamp the waves seems to go first down. The datestamp is set upside down and so directed to outside. The picture on the other side of the card: the harbour of Odessa. I am philatelist, but this is also a good reason to collect these cards. |
|
SARATOW Original print size of this image: 14,232 x 9,279 cm (is something more as the postal item) This postmark - with a flag of eight straight lines- has a date-stamp, double circle, 27 - 17 mm. This type is used 6-2-1912 up to 22-10-1917 (reported by Ivo Steijn, with my addition). Serial 'a'. Another type also exists: double circle 27 19 mm. |
 |
The postmark САРАТОВЪ (SARATOV), resized 50 %:
 The text of the card: the sender is asking to sent a catalog to Saratov. |
| Here another postmark of Saratov, but a very unclear. Original print size of this image: 14,182 x 9,178 cm (is something more as the postal item) |  |
 |
St. PETERSBURG Original print size of this image: 13,521 x 8,949 cm (is something more as the postal item) The postmark, resized 50 %:  |
 |
Another postmark of St.Petersburg, now with broken waves instead of the straight lines, hoping to solve the problem with the indentations of the inking roller.
Original print size of this image: 14,283 x 9,559 cm (is something more as the postal item) |
| The postmark, date 18 XI 1908, resized 50 % |
 |
|
Also in the postmark the name is changed in Petrograd. Original print size of this image: 14,385 x 9,406 cm (is something more as the postal item) The other side of the card:  |  The postmark, resized 50 %.  |
 |
The KRAG-postmark of ТАММЕРФОРСЪ (TAMMERFORS), in finnish Tampere
Original print size of this image: 14,131 x 9,203 cm (is something more as the postal item) |
 |
The postmark, resized 50 %. In the postmark the cyrillic indication, but also the transcription in latin characters and the Finnish name Tampere. Trilingual. |
| TURKU This Finnish place has a postmark with eight straight lines. The dates reported by Ivo Steijn: 1-12-1909 up to 11-6-1918. The KRAG-machine is also used without flag for arrival-postmarks. There are also subtypes: Original print size of this image: 14,131 x 9,508 cm (is something more as the postal item) |
|
| The postmark, date 27 VI 1910, trilingual, resized 50 %. TURKO, the Cyrillic АБО (ABO), and ABO (transcription or Swedisch) |
| VIBORG / WIIPURI The KRAG-machine is in Wiipuri - now in Finland- also used for censor-postmarks. This type with the characters Д. Ц. (D. Ts.) is used in Wiipuri in two subtypes, according Ivo Steijn: This letter is sent via (?) Revel to the 'Army in the field', 2th Infantry Reserve Batallion, 2th Compagnie. Rank is something with volunteer. Original print size of this image: 14,055 x 9,254 cm (is something more as the postal item) |  |
| The postmark, resized 50 %. In this postmark the characters are 17 mm. Literature: | 
|