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Some more Sweden! Lansjarv is now a hamlet in Sweden's Norrbotten County. It had population as early as the 17th Century but, according to a Swedish Wikipedia article, by 2015 its population had dwindled to less than 50 and so it was dissolved as a discrete municipality.  |
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Here is another modern Swedish cancel. This one is KLIPPAN 31.05.83 with a J code between two stars. From wikipedia, "Klippan (literally the cliff) is a locality and the seat of Klippan Municipality, Skane County, Sweden with 8,116 inhabitants in 2010."  |
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Speaking of small places...how about Nemet-Bencsek? Postmarked here in the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now the village of Bencecu de Sus in Timis county in western Romania. It's been getting smaller. Its population was listed at 844 in 2011, about half the number who lived there in the 19th Century.  |
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An ALMOST perfect SON cancel from almost 126 years ago. Postmarked at Cetinje, Montenego, the former royal capital of that nation. Cetinje was founded in the 15th Century and nowadays has a population of about 15,000.  |
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Allerton bywater, a semi-rural village south-east of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. The population census in 2011 was 4,717.  |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Allerton Bywater,
New discovery for the database.
Just Fella
may I submit this for inclusion please?
duly accredited.
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Sure. It's a bad photo,I'll scan it properly  |
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| Edited by Just_fella - 06/20/2022 9:50 pm |
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I'm not sure if this clean enough to be considered SOTN? Longdon, Worcestershire Longdon is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District and council ward of Worcestershire, England and is about 5 km (3 miles) south of Upton-on-Severn. It shares administration with two parishes Queenhill and Holdfast (From wiki)  |
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| Edited by Just_fella - 06/20/2022 10:44 pm |
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Justfella, I think this is one of the London Western Central office squared circle postmarks. They just wouldn't identify villages using an abbreviation of a county name like "W.C.". There looks to be room for a "NG" in the empty space but the letters are large enough that there is only room for an "N". |
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Postmark is LONDON WC January 7th 1901
WC = West Central (London)
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| Edited by rod222 - 06/21/2022 02:45 am |
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 thanks HB and rod (Not mine)  Well not all is lost, found out about a new place :) |
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| Edited by Just_fella - 06/21/2022 02:47 am |
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Not every SON cancel needs to be in a circle! Zeist is a city of about 64,000 population near Utrecht in Netherlands. The town dates back to the 9th Century AD.  |
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