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Marius
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| Perpetual Date Octagonal Parcel Post (1877) |
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The Christiania parcel post received its first official, and longest lasting cancel, on 24th December 1877. It was delivered from Fabriken Sylvan which was run by the engineer (Ingeniør) Anton Løvstad.
There must have been some problems with the cancel, possibly the month section was cut too high to revolve perfectly, and the lower line was soon broken. However, the cancel had a sturdy line, and not a thin line as observed for a short time in February 1878. A beautifully decorated 5-øre stationery with a strike of this octagonal in combination with a CHRA BYP. is thus a fake, assumably from the forger Aabogen who even won a gold medal at LONDON80 for his entirely phony collection!!!
In 1910 the Ch was re-engraved to a K. (Hits: 609)
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According to Langangen (NFT 8/88, 403) the engraver Throndsen changed the Ch into a K in 1911, following the PM's request for a circular and a rectangular cancel on 1911-4-10. The re-engraved cancel was returned on 1911-6-11.
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