Lochem (NL)

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Lochem is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. On 1 January 2005, the municipality merged with the municipality of Gorssel.


Read more @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochem

Postmark Examples

Postmark Lochum 1884. See also Stampset Stampset.png
Postmark LOCHEM 1894. Stampset Stampset.png
Coded Postal Obliterator nr 190 (= Lochen). c.1891. Stampset Stampset.png
Postmark Lochum 1898. Postage stamp from Stampset Stampset.png
Postmark Lochem, 1901. Postage stamp is Postage Due Issue. Stampset Stampset.png
Postmark Lochem 1904. Stampset Stampset.png
Postmark Lochem 1913. Stampset Stampset.png
Postmark from Lochem Buba Eekmolenweg 26. Note different size of the two cancels. This cancelation is from a BuBa or Business Balie (in English: Business Counter or Business Point). This kind of office is mostly located in an industrial/commercial area where business mail is collected and handled. The company dealing with this mail was Royal TNT, now Royal PostNL. The cancels may contain TNT post or TNT Express or PostNL or PostNL Express.

Machine cancels

Meter cancel Lochem, 1954
Meter cancel Lochem, 1978
Meter cancel Lochem, 1984. Coat of Arms.
Meter cancel Lochem, 1984

Cards and Covers

Letter Card sent from Lochem to Amsterdam 1881. Postal Stationery.
Postal Card sent from Lochem to Oude Pekela 1901
Change of Address Card from Lochem 1-XI-1936 to Olst. Obtained from netherlandspostalhistory.blogspot.nl