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Marius
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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.
K (1911) |
This was the second revolving date canceller to be delivered on Christmas eve 1877 (together with the octagonal parcel post). It was regarded as a test from Engineer Anton Løvstad's Fabriken SYLVAN. It proved very durable, just like the parcel post canceller, and traces of it can be found even in the 1920s! How many times it has been re-engraved, I have not yet begun to trace. All the new Christiania cancels have revolving date wheels after 1877.
Repaired in February/March 1910 because the date wheel could not show 10 in the year! (The Y2K bug could easily have been avoided by looking to postal history, apparently ;-) Returned from the engraver on 1910-3-3.
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The Postal Administration continued to order cancellers from Ingeniör Anton Lövstad's Fabriken SYLVAN. On 1878-9-27 another Swiss system revolving date wheel canceller was delivered to Post Departementet. It is easily recognizable by the narrow space between C and H. The outer circle, however, seems to have been cut higher than the others. The result is that the first months the strikes observed are weak towards the center. Even more so, the higher outer ridge would mean uneven distribution of force when struck, and the outer circle soon broke. By April 1878 a big chip at clock position 7 and 8 broke off. Before it got fixed, after 1885, most of the left side of the outer circle had come off. The Post was really saving the pennies in those days.
The canceller cost 31 kroner according to the invoice (Langangen 1988, 7).
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It is believed that these cancels were delivered by von Schwarzenhorn to the Postal Administration in March 1880, but were only released to the PO on 1880-06-11. Two people were at this time full time employed with cancelling outgoing mail in Christiania, but it may appear so that one of these cancels were used in the Banco department only. Possibly fixed and re-engraved many times.
Narrow T-bar, Wide T-bar |
In 1882 a 'Bypost' cancel was commissioned from the engraver Ivar Throndsen. It was to have the Swiss system which was the common term in Norway for perpetual date adjustment. The cancel, however, does not show the word Bypost, but the time-stamp is a clear indicator of the messenger service. Because of ongoing changes with merging the District Post and the PO's own messenger service, as well as difficulties designing the cancel, an open star was chosen instead. The engraver, Throndsen, however, got to show some artistic talent after all, by adding a right side shadow to the star. Pretty nifty for being 1883 I'd say.
Norgeskatalogen calls this the 1a.
rtd 1b, rtd 1c |
In the summer of 1880 the engraver Ivar Throndsen of The Royal Mint in Kongsberg would become the preferred engraver of the Postal Administration. Until 1904 only a handful of other engravers would deliver Norwegian postmarks, most of which ended up in Christiania. This cancel was used in the Banco department until approximately 1920 when I suspect it was re-engraved from Ch to Kristiania and served as backup in the Letter department.
The re-engraved postmark was used until the 1924/25 recall, date 31 XII 24 in the order books.
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Sent to the PO on 1885-06-24. This one looks like a hybrid of the two previous twin circle cancels. It appears to have been used in the letter department, but may also have been wandering about... Seems to disappear in the early 1900s.
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