GERMAN COLONIES
KAROLINEN
POST OFFICES
ANGAUR
Valid from 18th Feb 1909 until Aug 1914.
(1)
'ANGAUR | PALAU-INSELN'
'ANGAUR | PALAU-INSELN'
(1) This cancel can be found in violet ink in May 1914. Also on stamps of the Marshall Islands (Angaur Provisional) from 14.3.1910 until 3.6.1910.
PALAU
Valid from 4th Oct 1907 until Aug 1914.
(1)
'PALAU | PALAU-INSELN'
'PALAU | PALAU-INSELN'
(1) This cancel can also be found in violet ink from 1910 until 1914.
PONAPE
Valid from 12th Oct 1899 until Aug 1914.
(1)
'PONAPE | KAROLINEN'
(12.10.1899 to 20.4.1905)
'PONAPE | KAROLINEN'
(12.10.1899 to 20.4.1905)
(2)
'KAISERLICH DEUTSCHE POSTANGTUR | PONAPE | KAROLINEN'
(20.4.1905 to Aug 1914)
'KAISERLICH DEUTSCHE POSTANGTUR | PONAPE | KAROLINEN'
(20.4.1905 to Aug 1914)
(3)
'PONAPE | KAROLINEN'
(13.11.1905 to Aug 1914)
'PONAPE | KAROLINEN'
(13.11.1905 to Aug 1914)
(2) This cancel is a provisional seal and is frequently applied fraudulently.
(3) From 1.1.1908 until 19.1.1908 the year date '07' was incorrectly used. This cancel used violet ink in May 1910 and from Jul 1912 until Aug 1913. This cancel can also be found in blue ink from Sep 1913 until aug 1914.
TRUK
Valid from 1st May 1905 until Aug 1914.
(1)
'TRUK | KAROLINEN'
'TRUK | KAROLINEN'
(1) blue and violet ink was used in May 1905. From 1.1.1906 until 4.7.1906 year date '05' was incorrectly used. From 1.1.1911 until 1.2.1911 year '10' is handwritten from '10' to '11'. There is also a favour cancel dated 11.10.14.
YAP
Valid from 6th Nov 1899 until Aug 1914.
(1)
'YAP | KAROLINEN'
'YAP | KAROLINEN'
(1) From 1st to 14th Jan 1900 there is no year date. Blue or bluish green ink was used from Feb to Aug 1903 and again on 12.7 1906. Violet ink can be found from Jan to Jul 1904. Date 7.12.99 were mostly backdated in 1904.