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One unusual aspect of this card, is that language used on the reverse is Manx; the artwork is not of significance.
The postage stamp has unfortunately been removed.
Can anyone see what appears to be wrong with the card?
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07:34:11am
Yes, it appears to be dated before the war, in 1912.
Probably a late use of the card in 1921, with either the day/year transposed by the clerk or simply the the digits of the year transposed. I would probably guess the former. He might have gotten confused over all the 1's and 2's in the date.
Roy
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Yes, so it would seem. I checked the format used for Douglas, IOM machine cancels and they are: DD:MMM:YY.
Although I have seen numerous CDS date errors, this is the first I have seen on a machine cancel; and six years out !
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What Roy said.
There might also be an element of right-to-left as you face the stamp versus right-to-left as the stamp faces the paper, eg, setting '12' (a second time) as you face the bottom of the stamp yielding '21'.
While the artwork might be irrelevant - so, just as an aside - would not the Brit press have translated 'metres' into 'meters', if not converted into 'yards'?
Or, did the Brit press of the early 20th Century trust their readers not to panic at the sight of a foreign word or different unit of measure?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who so enjoys the PMQs when he stumbles across the BBC on cable)
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I too noticed the word 'metres' and thought that a little odd. Not because of the spelling; we spell it that way in Englandistan but it was usually 'yards', at that time.
Many folk here still can't get their head round the metric system and many builders switch between the two depending on which part of the steel rule is closest to a whole number.
As for the date on the card; I doubt such a card would have been sent in 1921, if that is what you were suggesting, unless the appeal was 'toilet humour' (but again, the word gas was not generally used by the Brits in that context).
Perhaps the long lost stamp may have revealed more (but I doubt it).
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I am confident that the 'gas attacks' is a fatty-farty joke, and it reminds me how little I enjoy *any* of the 'humor' postcards I come across; most often, I feel like buying the card in order to burn it.
I'm glad that tastes have changed, even if The PC Crowd can be a bit much.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Another example of the original posting of the related source
being lost unless some clever devil saved it.
It would be better to copy and save an image to your file first
and then access it for the SoR discussion board. Lifting it
directly from the source and posting it means that if the source
folds for some reason, or even just disuse, the link collapse
as well.
I hope I explained that properly.
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"... I hope I explained that properly ..."
You explained it properly, but you've got the wrong 'it'.
The images in this thread are local to the Stamporama server.
Perhaps they took a moment too long to load?
https://stamporama.com/upload/2000720699.JPG
https://stamporama.com/upload/2000720702.JPG
https://stamporama.com/upload/2000721103.jpg
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Below is un unusual postcard produced in 1918. The artist was the well known and very popular Donald McGill. Although this was advertised as a Bamforth postcard, the reverse reveals that it was printed by Brown & Sons Ltd, Isle of Man. This may well have been produced by Bamforth as well.
One unusual aspect of this card, is that language used on the reverse is Manx; the artwork is not of significance.
The postage stamp has unfortunately been removed.
Can anyone see what appears to be wrong with the card?
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16 Dec 2015
07:34:11am
re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
Yes, it appears to be dated before the war, in 1912.
Probably a late use of the card in 1921, with either the day/year transposed by the clerk or simply the the digits of the year transposed. I would probably guess the former. He might have gotten confused over all the 1's and 2's in the date.
Roy
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re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
Yes, so it would seem. I checked the format used for Douglas, IOM machine cancels and they are: DD:MMM:YY.
Although I have seen numerous CDS date errors, this is the first I have seen on a machine cancel; and six years out !
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re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
What Roy said.
There might also be an element of right-to-left as you face the stamp versus right-to-left as the stamp faces the paper, eg, setting '12' (a second time) as you face the bottom of the stamp yielding '21'.
While the artwork might be irrelevant - so, just as an aside - would not the Brit press have translated 'metres' into 'meters', if not converted into 'yards'?
Or, did the Brit press of the early 20th Century trust their readers not to panic at the sight of a foreign word or different unit of measure?
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who so enjoys the PMQs when he stumbles across the BBC on cable)
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re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
I too noticed the word 'metres' and thought that a little odd. Not because of the spelling; we spell it that way in Englandistan but it was usually 'yards', at that time.
Many folk here still can't get their head round the metric system and many builders switch between the two depending on which part of the steel rule is closest to a whole number.
As for the date on the card; I doubt such a card would have been sent in 1921, if that is what you were suggesting, unless the appeal was 'toilet humour' (but again, the word gas was not generally used by the Brits in that context).
Perhaps the long lost stamp may have revealed more (but I doubt it).
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re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
I am confident that the 'gas attacks' is a fatty-farty joke, and it reminds me how little I enjoy *any* of the 'humor' postcards I come across; most often, I feel like buying the card in order to burn it.
I'm glad that tastes have changed, even if The PC Crowd can be a bit much.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
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12 Jul 2019
11:56:10pm
re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
Another example of the original posting of the related source
being lost unless some clever devil saved it.
It would be better to copy and save an image to your file first
and then access it for the SoR discussion board. Lifting it
directly from the source and posting it means that if the source
folds for some reason, or even just disuse, the link collapse
as well.
I hope I explained that properly.
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re: 1918 British humour postcard. Can anyone see what's wrong with this?
"... I hope I explained that properly ..."
You explained it properly, but you've got the wrong 'it'.
The images in this thread are local to the Stamporama server.
Perhaps they took a moment too long to load?
https://stamporama.com/upload/2000720699.JPG
https://stamporama.com/upload/2000720702.JPG
https://stamporama.com/upload/2000721103.jpg
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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