The first one is a bit of a mystery. But I MAY have found an answer.
This is a quote from David Saks' website:
RELAIS: Iran, stickers for railway tickets allowing users to ride postal wagons on non-railway routes.
As far as I can make out there are four stamps in this issue. You can see them on SOTW following the link: http://www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/wiki/Iran_1911_Relais
Collecting the world 1840 to date - one stamp at a time! 26 Mar 2018 02:04:28am
re: Help with identification
#2 is a letter seal by Finnish stamp company O.Y Fennia Post A.B (O.Y being Finnish and A.B Swedish, both meaning Ltd company). They operated from 1920 to 1922 if I recall properly. The company went bust, but the operations were taken over by one of the owners, and rebranded as "Postimerkkiliike Fennia-Post", which eventually became somewhat iconic.... But that was almost century ago, currently the name Fennia is used by general insurance company, LOL.
-k-
PS. Thanks to ikey for tipping me on this topic...
Your Army censor marking probably does not refer to a Field Post Office, as all the ones I have seen,either in the flesh or in literature have been numbers.
It is almost certainly "Army Post Office". Unlike FPOs which moved around with units "in the field" (- it does exactly what it says on the tin !), these were Post Offices set up at permanent "Bases" some distance behind the front, and were mainly concerned with Lines of Communications troops, Hospitals, Stores,repair shops, Rest areas for units outside the front line, and all the other back room requirements of a modern army in a static warfare situation.Some Army Post Offices did have letter identification.
The dates mean that it cannot be from "British Army Post Office Y" which was at Mudros, Lemos,Greece in connection with the Gallipoli campaign ( April 1915 - Sep 1916) or the British Occupation of the Ottoman Empire ( Istanbul ) from November 1918 to September 1920.
This detail is very basic information taken from Wikipedia. The actuality is almost certainly far more complex and convoluted than this.
Malcolm
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