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Marius
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The Postal Administration was searching for modern, cost efficient solutions. Thousands of cancellers were to be ordered in the coming years, and price was of utmost importance. Thanks to the Duncker order, the administrators were likely signalling engraver Throndsen that there were good alternatives open to them. Throndsen responded as desired, by lowering prices, and promising the same quality and design as the German manufacturer.
Evidently the shorter distance (although roughly only one day longer postal service from Hamburg) landed him the engraving jobs. Throndsen maintained a residence in Kristiania although his workshop was at Kongsberg.
This canceller is rarely spotted in use in 1888. However, it was probably used for the Christmas post, and definitely for the New Years' greetings. I have registered it on the following dates: 1888-12-31 and 1889-01-02.
After this period there is a long period with few sightings. 25 VII 91 is, however, I have found. The canceller reappears towards the end of 1896 when more cancellers were urgently called for in Christiania. It seems to have been delivered together with a copy that Throndsen might have engraved as his personal copy-cat-test or as a proof to the Postal Administration that he was capable of delivering exactly the same grade-A goods as the Germans. The only differnece between the original and the copy is that the copy has dots after month and year instead of this original's date and month. (Hits: 719)
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