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Marius
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Since these are a popular collecting area, I find it natural to reserve a separate category for them. Truth is, however, that the machines would take over for manpower, and the two cancellation types would live in symbiosis ever after... Happily?
It is difficult to trace the machines and their whereabouts, as well as which cliches and datestamps are in them.
Another Kristiania-collector, Helge Fritzen, has chosen to list them by appearance. [ http://www.periclymenus.com/filateli_K_maskin_utentekst.htm ] However, when first exhibiting a 5-frame of Xania, I tried to identify the actual machines when presenting the postmarks. Meeting with Ian Reed, a machine buff who also collects Krag-Hansen's Kristiania, at that exhibition, he assured me that following the machines themselves was the ideal way to go. This route is challenging at times, but let's see if it is NOT impossible after all...
That way we get a picture of how the changes occured, and possibly why the would happen. After 1907 Krag's machines would have interchangeable cancellation cylinders; guess if that has added to the challenge ;-) (Hits: 694)
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After a lengthy process, duly documented in Langangen's studies of the postal archives, that included an order for a U.S. made Doremus mail marking machine, an agreement was signed for a one year test lease of a Canadian Bickerdike (of German mfg). Stationed at Brevavdelingen, the installation process and user trainig took place from the 3rd until the 6th August 1903.
However, the Bickerdike was no faster than the excellent postal workers of Xania were by hand, and after a while the PO found little use for it. Standardized mail pieces, especially in the holiday season and Christian faith confirmation weekends, were typical uses.
In June 1904 the lease was discontinued, much due to the fabulous new Krag-Hansen machine that was being developed in Xania with the PO as testbed.
Oh, btw, when the machine was returned, the postmark was removed. Later it surfaced as a back-office canceller, manual that is, at PPI... A piece of info only interesting to übergeeks, but then again, that's probably what you are if you read this. I have a document with a manual-strike somewhere, and will beam it up here next time it surfaces.
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Gustav A Hansen's and Nils A Krag's invention received patent protection in Norway on 14th January 1904. It was a sturdy, small, and simple piece of geniously engineered parts that would blow away the competition.
Their angle at a mail marking machine, being a continuous roller handling envelopes and cards of all shapes and sizes, propelled them to the throne of cancelling machines in a few years time.
1904, 1905, 1906 ...
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