jimjamtwo
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Help with postmarks please
Is anyone able to identify any of the following postmarks, all of which have me stumped.
The first one seems to be a Finnish small town single line cancel. Does anyone know what it is?
The second one is "PERNO /" but in this case I'm wondering what came after the "/".
Is the third one SAINT PETERSBURG, perhaps? I don't read Cyrillic, so I'm just guessing that it would fit.
Thanks for looking!
  
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The third one is Lodz, in Poland.
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Thanks, Unhinged. There's quite a few letters, though, so I'm guessing that it's Lodz (something).
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The second part is Tsentr., which is an abbreviation meaning Central. The next letter is a P, so it probably has something to do with Pochta, the
Post, though I can't make out the next letter. It looks like an E, though, so perhaps someone else has a better idea.
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Thanks, Unhinged!
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The first stamp does indeed have a straightline cancel of a postal facility in Finland. Unfortunately not being at all familiar with Russian Finland
I cannot provide any further information. The second cancel is from Pernov, today Parnu in Estonia. The third cancel is indeed Lodz in Poland. The
cancel reads Лодзъ Центр Петрок - Lodz Central
Piotrkow. Lodz was a significant town in the Piotrkow gubernia of Russian Poland, and the cancel is from the post office in the town center.
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Thanks, for the help tarnowg!
I haven't been able to find mention on the internet of a locality called ANG (?) in Finland today, but there's always a possibility that it doesn't
exist anymore, or that it was located in Eastern Karelia, in which case I suppose it would have a Russian name today.
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Don't forget that the A has an umlaut, and that there appears to be a period at the end. The A is probably Aa or Ae, and the whole thing is probably
an abbreviation.
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I'm still struggling with my Russian postmarks! Can anyone tell me what this one is? (It appears to read БѣПЪЧЪ
but I get no results from Google with that entry.)
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Beltsi, in Bessarabia
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Thanks, David - although I did think the third letter was a P, so I'm surprised.
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