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Marius
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This site presents a database containing images of postmarks from Christiania -- Norway's capital that changed the name to Oslo in 1925. It is a work in process.
For a stamp forum (frimerke-forum) in Norwegian, please visit Frank E Ring .
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Christiania PO is Norway's first PO, and was founded in 1647. The first evidence of a postmark points to the year 1845, exceptionally late in terms of postal history.
After the great escapes of the Norwegian vikings, the black plague wipeout left Norway in limbo. As long as the Christiania PO had existed, and until 1814, Norway was a satellite state in the Danish kingdom. The Napoleonic wars landed Norway in a union with Sweden instead. This union was declared defunct in 1905 (and today Norwegians are trying to purchase Sweden bit by bit, while Swedes are trying to invade Norway one by one, successfully filling every position available in the restaurant business. Even scarier, inside the Kristiania PO that officially opened in February 1924, there is now a restaurant... according to Dagbladet not a good one... And while the PO never got robbed, the restaurant quickly did).
Anyway, the suppression of a national identity and sovereignty is thought to have indirectly diminished the need for postmarks identifying Norwegian towns. Moreover, for Christiania, the price of a canceller may have been more than the stingy postmaster Løvenskiold would want to pay. And so it goes, that the first postmark was ordered after businessmen insisted on one.
Still, today, we do not know for sure what was the first postmark of Christiania. By date, a 7-1-1845 red-inked octagonal stamp on an entire to Schröder & Schÿler (négociant en vins de Bordeaux depuis 1739) has the rank. (Hits: 829)
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