Clock wheel stamp

Clock wheel stamp no.4

The clock wheel stamps were postmarks that were used in Baden from 1859 .

introduction

With the issuance of the first Baden postage stamps in 1851, numeral stamps for canceling the postage stamps were also introduced. In the order of the first letter of the respective main post office, each postal district was given its own number.

The generic term " rural postal stations " have been set up with regulation of 24 February 1859 by the postal administration both letter shop and post shelves. The mailboxes were set up in important locations, the letter shops were only intended for mail. The letter drawers in a postal circle were numbered from 1 to 50, and the respective clock wheel stamps were attached to them with a cord or chain.

The postman stamped the removed mail with the clock wheel stamp when emptying the post office.

Examples

In the area of the rural postal district Offenburg there were from 1859 to 1864 the following clock wheel stamps in the letter shops corresponding to the four messenger districts:

Messenger District No. I. Rammersweier : 1. Ebersweier : 2. Durbach : 3. Cell : 4. Weierbach : 5. Fessenbach : 6.

Messenger District No. II Bohlsbach : 7. Griesheim : 8. Bühl : 9. Weier : 10. Waltersweier : 11.

Messenger District No. III Schutterwald : 12. Garbage : 13. Retirement home : 17. Dundenheim : 19.

Messenger District No. IV Hofweier : 14. Zunsweier : 15. Elgersweier : 16. Diersburg : 18. Ortenberg : 20. Niederschopfheim : 22.

In the area of ​​the Stockach mail expedition, the three messenger districts had the following clock wheel stamps:

Messenger District No. I. Hindelwangen : 1. Zizenhausen : 2. Grinding traces in Hegau : 3. Raithaslach : 4. Münchhöf : 5. Hoppetenzell : 6. Grinding in the valley : 7. Winter sensations : 8. Zoznegg : 9. Schwackenreute : 10.

Messenger District No. II Schwandorf : 11. Mainwangen : 12. (a) Mühlingen : 13. Panting : 14. Heudorf : 15. Rorgenwies : 16. Gallmannsweil : 17. Liptingen : 25.

Messenger District No. III Espasingen : 18. Bodman : 19. Stahringen : 20. Wahlwies : 21. Orsingen : 22. Nenzingen : 23. Rissorf : 24.

execution

Clock wheel stamp 12th
on Baden 3 Kreuzer

Clock wheel stamps come in different types because they were cut by hand.

The number was always followed by a point. In the case of stamps with the numbers 2 ( Meßkirch / Thalheim ) and 12, versions with a trailing a are also known.

The shape of the stamp gave it its name: It is reminiscent of a clockwork gear .

Occurrence

The clockwheel stamps of the country towns are rarely the only stamps on the letters sent. This could only be the case when a letter was carried on the errand directly into a folder from the way country place, otherwise the letters were also always the stamp of the superior post expedition or - with a - from January 1, 1864 file stamp provided.

According to current knowledge, there was no postal district in Baden in which letter shops from 1 to 50 were actually available. It can be said that the higher its number, the rarer the occurrence of a clock wheel stamp.

See also

• Postal history and stamps of Baden
• Mill wheel stamp

literature

• Gerd Wahl: The clock wheel stamps of the Grand Duchy of Baden . 1st edition. tape 1 + 2 . Self-published, Iffezheim 1995.

Web links

Commons : Clock Wheel Stamp  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ R. Brack: The clock wheel stamp of Offenburg . (PDF) In: Circular letter from the Baden Working Group in the Association of German Philatelists , No. 110, June 1989
2. ↑ Badische watch wheel stamp (PDF) 1859-1874 at www.arge-brustschild.de; accessed on February 23, 2018
3. ↑ Edwin Fecker: The rural postal district of Stockach . In: Circular No. 140 of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baden” in the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e. V. (BDPh), autumn 2004; P. 1713 ff.