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by miller61
Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:00 am
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: Code breaker needed
Replies: 3
Views: 1374

Re: Code breaker needed

Hi Des, It was really quite easy. I assumed that it was a direct one-to-one correspondence between the code symbols and letters of the alphabet. As e is the most common letter we use, I presumed – looking at the second card – that r was the code for e. Again on the second card, the coded word YZQQRY...
by miller61
Thu Dec 04, 2014 1:15 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: Code breaker needed
Replies: 3
Views: 1374

Re: Code breaker needed

Hi Des, I think that I have the solution. I suspect that HAS which appears in twice in CARD 1 should be AS, but old-timers often inserted a H for politeness sake. Card 1 RECEIVED P.C. VERY PRETTY. THIS VIEW IS VERY PRETTY ALSO EITHER WALKING OR DRIVING HAS YOU WILL SEE BY THE WINDING ROAD. YOU ARE T...
by miller61
Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:19 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Postmarks and Postal Markings to 1912
Topic: TOP EXAMPLES of RATED BARRED NUMERAL POSTMARKS on PICTORIALS
Replies: 5
Views: 3287

Re: TOP EXAMPLES of RATED BARRED NUMERAL POSTMARKS on PICTOR

Copies of a number of very clear strikes of Numeral Cancellations on the Pictorials. Posted by miller61
numerals scans 1.jpg
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by miller61
Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:28 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Postmarks and Postal Markings to 1912
Topic: RATED POSTMARKS on PICTORIALS - IS THERE A CUTOFF DATE?
Replies: 39
Views: 14135

Re: RATED POSTMARKS on PICTORIALS - IS THERE A CUTOFF DATE?

Hi John, Thanks for the rated postmark listings of Oct 12 2009*. It really has refined and clarified this topic - great research! My question concerns Legana. You have rated the Rubber Cancel and the normal CDS, so how does the manuscript cancel of Legana fit in here? Is that a fair question, or eve...