{"id":1558,"date":"2015-05-03T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2015-05-03T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T07:59:59","slug":"alexandropol-b-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Alexandropol &#8220;b&#8221; an update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I posted scans of a stamp with a forged Alexandropol &#8220;b&#8221; cancellation. A reader sent me scans of a cover with a genuine cancellation. The date reads 11.04.1910. Only some cancels survived the invasion of the Turks and the fire in Alexandropol in 1918. The cancel with the &#8220;b&#8221; character did not. This proofs the cancel on the stamp showed earlier is definitely a forgery. Also note the crude appearance and the large letters. This is typical for cancels of this time and place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?attachment_id=1559\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1559\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?attachment_id=1559\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampsofarmenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alexandropol-11.04.1910-ausschnitt.jpg?fit=687%2C454&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"687,454\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"alexandropol 11.04.1910 &#8211; ausschnitt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampsofarmenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alexandropol-11.04.1910-ausschnitt.jpg?fit=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampsofarmenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alexandropol-11.04.1910-ausschnitt.jpg?fit=640%2C423&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1559\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampsofarmenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alexandropol-11.04.1910-ausschnitt.jpg?resize=640%2C423\" alt=\"alexandropol 11.04.1910 - ausschnitt\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampsofarmenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alexandropol-11.04.1910-ausschnitt.jpg?w=687&amp;ssl=1 687w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stampsofarmenia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alexandropol-11.04.1910-ausschnitt.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I posted scans of a stamp with a forged Alexandropol &#8220;b&#8221; cancellation. A reader sent me scans of a cover with a genuine cancellation. The date reads 11.04.1910. Only some cancels survived the invasion of the Turks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=1558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11E12-p8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}