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Latin America/All : Puerto Rican Leap Year!

 

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28 Feb 2021
12:44:10pm
Check out the date on this Danish West Indies stamp!

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28 Feb 2021
05:12:27pm
re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

It looks like it was probably postmarked in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Interesting stamp. I used to live in St.Thomas.

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28 Feb 2021
10:18:48pm
re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

It was post marked in San Juan, on a date that doesn't exist, February 30th!

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01 Mar 2021
07:49:38am

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February 30th?

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01 Mar 2021
09:46:06am

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It is not that strange this was cancelled in Puerto Rico, as all mail from the Danish West Indies first went there for a long time. 30 February is quite remarkable though. Special Spanish calendar? Or was a "1" missing on the canceller?

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01 Mar 2021
06:34:03pm
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Hard to say why the date is wrong on the canceler -- either they took the "1" out of "12," which would be an odd thing to do as there are 31 days in December. Or it was February, and the person with the canceler thought there might be some fun to be had, which is possible, but unlikely.

My first thought was that 1857 was a leap year, and the canceler was simply set the next day to the 30th -- but I checked and there wasn't a leap year in 1857.

As JanSimon stated, a lot of DWI mail flowed through Puerto Rico. I specialize in DWI, and Puerto Rican cancels on covers franked with DWI stamps are not uncommon, though they are more so on the stamps themselves.

Either way, it is a fun oddity...

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02 Mar 2021
08:37:37am
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Maybe it was the 2nd day of the 30th month on the unique DWI calendar?

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02 Mar 2021
08:48:56am

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The Danes have a very peculiar way of counting. For instance, their way of saying seventy is "a half (times twenty) and three times (twenty)", so I would not be surprised at all if they had come up with a similar calendar. And that they exported it to their neighbouring Spanish islanders at Puerto Rico Laughing

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03 Mar 2021
07:15:15am
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Hi Jansimon,

That sounds like an even more complicated version of our "three score and ten". Happy

You'd get some funny reactions today if you talked about "three and a half score"!

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03 Mar 2021
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It could be that both Danish and English use the same biblical source for this equation for 70. We do not have an expression like that in Dutch, so I have to guess, perhaps rely on my maths knowledge to understand what you write. Is "three and a half score" 13?

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03 Mar 2021
08:58:15am
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"Four score and seven years ago..."
The first words of what is perhaps the most famous Address in American history, given by a Master of language.

1776 + 4*20 + 7 = 1863.

There you go, Jan!

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28 Feb 2021
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28 Feb 2021
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It looks like it was probably postmarked in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Interesting stamp. I used to live in St.Thomas.

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28 Feb 2021
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re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

It was post marked in San Juan, on a date that doesn't exist, February 30th!

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01 Mar 2021
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February 30th?

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01 Mar 2021
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re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

It is not that strange this was cancelled in Puerto Rico, as all mail from the Danish West Indies first went there for a long time. 30 February is quite remarkable though. Special Spanish calendar? Or was a "1" missing on the canceller?

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01 Mar 2021
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re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

Hard to say why the date is wrong on the canceler -- either they took the "1" out of "12," which would be an odd thing to do as there are 31 days in December. Or it was February, and the person with the canceler thought there might be some fun to be had, which is possible, but unlikely.

My first thought was that 1857 was a leap year, and the canceler was simply set the next day to the 30th -- but I checked and there wasn't a leap year in 1857.

As JanSimon stated, a lot of DWI mail flowed through Puerto Rico. I specialize in DWI, and Puerto Rican cancels on covers franked with DWI stamps are not uncommon, though they are more so on the stamps themselves.

Either way, it is a fun oddity...

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02 Mar 2021
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re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

Maybe it was the 2nd day of the 30th month on the unique DWI calendar?

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02 Mar 2021
08:48:56am

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re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

The Danes have a very peculiar way of counting. For instance, their way of saying seventy is "a half (times twenty) and three times (twenty)", so I would not be surprised at all if they had come up with a similar calendar. And that they exported it to their neighbouring Spanish islanders at Puerto Rico Laughing

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03 Mar 2021
07:15:15am

re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

Hi Jansimon,

That sounds like an even more complicated version of our "three score and ten". Happy

You'd get some funny reactions today if you talked about "three and a half score"!

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03 Mar 2021
08:05:56am

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re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

It could be that both Danish and English use the same biblical source for this equation for 70. We do not have an expression like that in Dutch, so I have to guess, perhaps rely on my maths knowledge to understand what you write. Is "three and a half score" 13?

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pigdoc

03 Mar 2021
08:58:15am

re: Puerto Rican Leap Year!

"Four score and seven years ago..."
The first words of what is perhaps the most famous Address in American history, given by a Master of language.

1776 + 4*20 + 7 = 1863.

There you go, Jan!

-Paul


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