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I now have stamps from the Netherlands, France, Germany and - since yesterday - Sweden. These are even harder to find than Danish railway stamps, so I am happy to have finally added a few. No idea how many exist, but it seems there are issued by the state railways (like the ones I have - SJ means Statens Järnvägar, the state's railways), as well as numerous local ones...
On the page I have photographed there is also one stamp from Great Britain that I received from a (not so secret) Santa here at SoR, as well as one from Algeria. I first thought it was French, which just shows how hard it is to even identify these stamps!
My question: if you have any railway stamps from any country except Belgium (I think I have 90% of them, or more) that you do not need yourself, please let me know what you'd like to have in return.
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I'm not sure I understand what these are and if I have any extra ones. Here we used to have "Bills of Lading", and I have a few extra's from the 1890s?
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These are neat. Looking at the German stamp, top left, I did a search for "Feldeisenbahn". I didn't find anything at first but I did learn that "feldbahn" was a type of narrow-gauge railway intended to move commodities like agricultural products etc. I did google translate on "eisen" and it's saying German for "demand".
Were these used by people sending mail from one railway station to the next? Did the U.S. do anything similar.
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I am pretty sure that something went wrong in that translation. Eisen is German for iron and Eisenbahn is the equivalent of Chemin de Fer in French (a road of iron, literally). The German word for demand is fordern.
In this case, Feldeisenbahn is a description of railways that have been taken over by the army to transport troops and supplies.
Railwaystamps were used for packages, although in some countries it was also possible to send special delivery mail (for instance photos for newspapers, which was common in the Netherlands before everything started to go by email or the internet) by train.
I will make some pictures of what I have and post them here.
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It makes me very happy to see that the British Railway Stamp has a good spot in your awesome collection!
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A few pages from the Belgium collection
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Just two pages from my Denmark railway parcel stamp collection (out of 54!) These show stamps issued by the national railways operator DSB. There were also around 100 local private companies that have issued stamps.
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And the "infant" collections from France and the Netherlands (and the Netherlands Indies)
There are hundreds of each country but mine fit on one page 
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Looks like some of the values got overprinted and adjusted. Do you think they just had a large stock some denominations and just thought they would make use of the stock?
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Not interested in trading — sorry — but I'd like to share these stamps and their story:
This is actually the second set of these stamps that I've had. The first set was a Christmas gift that I received at a Christmastime meeting of the first stamp club I ever joined. I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and the club met at the community church that was next door to my paternal grandparents' bungalow in Hurley, New Mexico. I was delighted with the stamps, but I'm afraid that the stamps I contributed did not impress the recipient, who was the son of the club president, who owned and operated the Gadsden Approvals service, which some of you may recall. (Hurley is in Southwestern New Mexico, which was included in the Gadsden Purchase, from Mexico, of 1912, the same year that the New Mexico Territory became a state.
I sold that set of stamps when I quit collecting; that was in 1969, after my wife and I emigrated to Canada and became Canadians citizens. In the early 1980s, although I was no longer collecting, I started a stamp club at the elementary school where I was teaching, in Prince George, BC, 500 miles/800 km north of Vancouver. That stamp club piqued my interest, and soon I was collecting again, and started looking for those Belgian railway stamps that once again came into my life. Tracy Barber, a StampoRama member and avid collector of Belium’s railway parcel post stamps, probably helped me get them. The image above shows those stamps. I have one other complete set, picturing railway workers.
Bob
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Hi Jansimon,
I have a number of duplicates of the Netherlands Railway stamps. If interested I can make a list of my extras.
Jan
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Hi Jan, that would be highly appreciated! The white page I photographed contains my entire Netherlands railways stamps collection
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I assume your finnish is as good as mine (I hope I am not wrong). If any SOR Finnish, or Estonian, member can confirm that this is a railway stamp. If true, this stamp is yours. I also have some French duplicates, but Lords knows where they are. Michel
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What little I know of Finnish seems to indicate that the inscription translates to "Railway of Rauma". Rauma is a town on the south west coast of Finland, with a railway connection from Tampere (freight only since 1988).
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According to Google translate Rautatie means railroad in Finnish so merci beaucoup Michel! Really appreciated!
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Hi Jan Simon,
I have about a dozen I can send you. Some values are the same as yours, but they are different issues (as far as I can tell from the scan). Only yellow and red ones. I have only found a few violet ones, and no green ones.
Message me your address, and I'll put them in the mail.
Jan
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There are many different series. At least 14 as far.as I know. Some can be recognised by their colour, others by the font used for the values. A lot of study needs to be done...
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I wanted to share some new arrivals. Yesterday I added a new chapter to the growing collection of railway parcel stamps. I began with Belgium, then came Denmark which is now my main focus / target and after that I realized that railway parcel stamps have been issued almost everywhere. It is just that it is very difficult to find information about them.
I now have stamps from the Netherlands, France, Germany and - since yesterday - Sweden. These are even harder to find than Danish railway stamps, so I am happy to have finally added a few. No idea how many exist, but it seems there are issued by the state railways (like the ones I have - SJ means Statens Järnvägar, the state's railways), as well as numerous local ones...
On the page I have photographed there is also one stamp from Great Britain that I received from a (not so secret) Santa here at SoR, as well as one from Algeria. I first thought it was French, which just shows how hard it is to even identify these stamps!
My question: if you have any railway stamps from any country except Belgium (I think I have 90% of them, or more) that you do not need yourself, please let me know what you'd like to have in return.
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I'm not sure I understand what these are and if I have any extra ones. Here we used to have "Bills of Lading", and I have a few extra's from the 1890s?
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These are neat. Looking at the German stamp, top left, I did a search for "Feldeisenbahn". I didn't find anything at first but I did learn that "feldbahn" was a type of narrow-gauge railway intended to move commodities like agricultural products etc. I did google translate on "eisen" and it's saying German for "demand".
Were these used by people sending mail from one railway station to the next? Did the U.S. do anything similar.
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I am pretty sure that something went wrong in that translation. Eisen is German for iron and Eisenbahn is the equivalent of Chemin de Fer in French (a road of iron, literally). The German word for demand is fordern.
In this case, Feldeisenbahn is a description of railways that have been taken over by the army to transport troops and supplies.
Railwaystamps were used for packages, although in some countries it was also possible to send special delivery mail (for instance photos for newspapers, which was common in the Netherlands before everything started to go by email or the internet) by train.
I will make some pictures of what I have and post them here.
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@Jansimon
It makes me very happy to see that the British Railway Stamp has a good spot in your awesome collection!
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A few pages from the Belgium collection
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Just two pages from my Denmark railway parcel stamp collection (out of 54!) These show stamps issued by the national railways operator DSB. There were also around 100 local private companies that have issued stamps.
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And the "infant" collections from France and the Netherlands (and the Netherlands Indies)
There are hundreds of each country but mine fit on one page
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Looks like some of the values got overprinted and adjusted. Do you think they just had a large stock some denominations and just thought they would make use of the stock?
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Not interested in trading — sorry — but I'd like to share these stamps and their story:
This is actually the second set of these stamps that I've had. The first set was a Christmas gift that I received at a Christmastime meeting of the first stamp club I ever joined. I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and the club met at the community church that was next door to my paternal grandparents' bungalow in Hurley, New Mexico. I was delighted with the stamps, but I'm afraid that the stamps I contributed did not impress the recipient, who was the son of the club president, who owned and operated the Gadsden Approvals service, which some of you may recall. (Hurley is in Southwestern New Mexico, which was included in the Gadsden Purchase, from Mexico, of 1912, the same year that the New Mexico Territory became a state.
I sold that set of stamps when I quit collecting; that was in 1969, after my wife and I emigrated to Canada and became Canadians citizens. In the early 1980s, although I was no longer collecting, I started a stamp club at the elementary school where I was teaching, in Prince George, BC, 500 miles/800 km north of Vancouver. That stamp club piqued my interest, and soon I was collecting again, and started looking for those Belgian railway stamps that once again came into my life. Tracy Barber, a StampoRama member and avid collector of Belium’s railway parcel post stamps, probably helped me get them. The image above shows those stamps. I have one other complete set, picturing railway workers.
Bob
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Hi Jansimon,
I have a number of duplicates of the Netherlands Railway stamps. If interested I can make a list of my extras.
Jan
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Hi Jan, that would be highly appreciated! The white page I photographed contains my entire Netherlands railways stamps collection
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Jansimon
I assume your finnish is as good as mine (I hope I am not wrong). If any SOR Finnish, or Estonian, member can confirm that this is a railway stamp. If true, this stamp is yours. I also have some French duplicates, but Lords knows where they are. Michel
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What little I know of Finnish seems to indicate that the inscription translates to "Railway of Rauma". Rauma is a town on the south west coast of Finland, with a railway connection from Tampere (freight only since 1988).
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According to Google translate Rautatie means railroad in Finnish so merci beaucoup Michel! Really appreciated!
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Hi Jan Simon,
I have about a dozen I can send you. Some values are the same as yours, but they are different issues (as far as I can tell from the scan). Only yellow and red ones. I have only found a few violet ones, and no green ones.
Message me your address, and I'll put them in the mail.
Jan
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There are many different series. At least 14 as far.as I know. Some can be recognised by their colour, others by the font used for the values. A lot of study needs to be done...
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