amsd
Editor, Seal News; contributor, JuicyHeads
09 Feb 2015
08:41:35am
Auctions | re: Quaker Dating System Used on Revenue Stamps
Dave, this is fascinating. I have seen all sorts of different configurations to the various CDSs, but this is the first time I'd considered, or seen, different approaches to the representations of the months.
Do you think that these are restricted SOLELY to the revenues?
thanks for sharing and adding context to them
David
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Bobstamp
09 Feb 2015
02:40:39pm | re: Quaker Dating System Used on Revenue Stamps
Fascinating indeed! And who says that stamp collecting is just about coloured bits of paper! I wonder if that dating system is still in use?
I found the following at genealogytoday.com:
Another pitfall is the Quaker dating system. Quakers abhorred the names of the months and days. Therefore, they never used them. Quaker dates will be numbers -- with March being the first month and Sunday the first day. An example of a Quaker rendering of a date would be: the 4th day of the 2nd week of the 8th month 1699. This would be Wednesday of the second week of October 1699. You will need a calendar for 1699 to figure out what day of the month this is.
Bob
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