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ESTONIA UNDER THE RUSSIAN CZARS |
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Original print size of this image: 14,080 x 9,152 cm (is something more as the postal item)
This picture and all pictures below on this page, if not mentioned otherwise: scanned about 300 dpi. Then set right and cut out - noted the actual print size-, resized 25 % of this image and saved as jpg.
The postmark, resized 50 %:
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About 1905 the Krag Maskin Fabrik in Oslo constructed a cancellation-machine. `With this machine it was possible to cancel 600 items in 1 minute.The letters and cards moved along the cancellation-cylinder.
The circumference of this rotating printing cylinder was 157 mm, with an outside-ring divided in four parts: two cancellations and two frames ('flags') (lines, etc.). The distance between two similar points of the postmark is thus always 157/2 = about 78 mm.
An rotating inkt-cylinder provided a constant inkting
After the introduction in Russia (1906?) the machine were used in the great cities (1907-1908).All cancellations were double-ring postmarks.
TARTU
The machine-cancel of ЮРЬЕВЪ (YUREW), in het Ests Tartu, en in het Duits Dorpat, Derpt of Dörpt.
Original print size of this image: 14,207 x 9,254 cm (is something more as the postal item)
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The postmark, resized 50 %
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More:
about the KRAG-machinecancels of Riga
about the KRAG-machinecancels of other places in tsaristic Russia
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