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Yes, it's a railroad cancel. It is probably from a parcel. It was carried on Train 434. The two town names on the cancel will be the route that the train ran.
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Thanks trainman !
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Nice cancel Phil. 
The stations appear to be
- Rothfliess (Rothfließ) (now Czerwonka) and
- Rudczanny (now Ruciane)
both at that time in East Prussia and now in Poland.
Czerwonka is a little to the north east of Ostzsyn (Allenstein) and Ruciane is further east in the Masurian Lakes.
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...and Nigelpedia rounds it out quite nicely!
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Thanks Michael!
I tried to find a route map and this is the best I've found.
From Olsztyn (third rectangle from the left in the bottom row) follow the black railway line north east towards Biskupiec.
Czerwonka appears to be on the line from Biskupiec north towards Jezoriany. I wonder if it was at the junction of the two branch lines?
Ruciane is now part of a larger town called Ruciane Nida and this is shown in the next rectangle to the right just below Ukta.
Thanks for the entertainment Phil.
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you guys scare me...but to change the subject...when you get to look at items that have been stored away 50/60 years...stamp values have gone up...i am not counting inflation.
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Just could not resist looking up the towns and railway lines on Wikipedia. Rothfließ was indeed the junction of the lines to Allenstein, Heilsberg, Korschen, and Lyck. It was the latter one that the train must have travelled, but not all the way. At Sensburg the line to Rudczanny branched off. The latter was closed already in 1945, and hence does not appear on the post-war map.
Usually, German railway postmarks look the same for both directions of travel (i.e. the place names are not swapped around), and the direction can only be identified from the train number. Even numbers were used for trains travelling from east to west and from south to north, so this cancel was apparently used on a Rudcanny - Rothfließ train.
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Its the first of the type that i had ever seen...just been used to the common German cancels . Now if i can just remember what i did with it.
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This postmark has Bahnpost in it...railroad cancel ?
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04:35:13pm
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Yes, it's a railroad cancel. It is probably from a parcel. It was carried on Train 434. The two town names on the cancel will be the route that the train ran.
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Thanks trainman !
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Nice cancel Phil.
The stations appear to be
- Rothfliess (Rothfließ) (now Czerwonka) and
- Rudczanny (now Ruciane)
both at that time in East Prussia and now in Poland.
Czerwonka is a little to the north east of Ostzsyn (Allenstein) and Ruciane is further east in the Masurian Lakes.
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06:41:07pm
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...and Nigelpedia rounds it out quite nicely!
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Thanks Michael!
I tried to find a route map and this is the best I've found.
From Olsztyn (third rectangle from the left in the bottom row) follow the black railway line north east towards Biskupiec.
Czerwonka appears to be on the line from Biskupiec north towards Jezoriany. I wonder if it was at the junction of the two branch lines?
Ruciane is now part of a larger town called Ruciane Nida and this is shown in the next rectangle to the right just below Ukta.
Thanks for the entertainment Phil.
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you guys scare me...but to change the subject...when you get to look at items that have been stored away 50/60 years...stamp values have gone up...i am not counting inflation.
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re: Germany #204 with interesting cancel
Just could not resist looking up the towns and railway lines on Wikipedia. Rothfließ was indeed the junction of the lines to Allenstein, Heilsberg, Korschen, and Lyck. It was the latter one that the train must have travelled, but not all the way. At Sensburg the line to Rudczanny branched off. The latter was closed already in 1945, and hence does not appear on the post-war map.
Usually, German railway postmarks look the same for both directions of travel (i.e. the place names are not swapped around), and the direction can only be identified from the train number. Even numbers were used for trains travelling from east to west and from south to north, so this cancel was apparently used on a Rudcanny - Rothfließ train.
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Its the first of the type that i had ever seen...just been used to the common German cancels . Now if i can just remember what i did with it.
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