<p>Please note that in that times, characters were written from right to left.</p>

<p>The postmark says </p>

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  <p>廿六年 六月 廿一</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Which means 21st June, 1937 (literally, 21st, June, 26nd year. Republic of China was founded in 1912. Hence 1912 was the first year and 1937 was the 26nd year.).</p>

<p>The big characters in the top are </p>

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  <p>安徽
  Anhui  province</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The big characters in the bottom are</p>

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  <p>揚溪鎮
  Yangxi town</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Please look at the first character carefully by yourself. It may be 楊 as 楊 and 揚 are very very similar. Searching on the internet, I find there is a town by the name of 揚溪鎮 (simplified Chinese: 扬溪镇) in the county of 绩溪 (Jixi), prefecture-level city of 宣城(Xuancheng) , 安徽 province. Of course, there is still a chance that the first character is 楊 if the original name has been changed.</p>

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<p>安徽Ān​huī 杨溪镇 Yángxīzhèn = Yángxī town</p>

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<p>Can someone tell me the name of the city on this postal cancel? I believe it's from Anhui province from 1937, but I'm not sure.<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/GECJe.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/GECJe.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a> </p>

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Another unknown city - postmark -Anhui?
# Another unknown city - postmark -Anhui?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-05-28)

Can someone tell me the name of the city on this postal cancel? I believe it's from Anhui province from 1937, but I'm not sure.[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/GECJe.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/GECJe.jpg)

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-05-29. Score: 2

Please note that in that times, characters were written from right to left.

The postmark says

> 廿六年 六月 廿一

Which means 21st June, 1937 (literally, 21st, June, 26nd year. Republic of China was founded in 1912. Hence 1912 was the first year and 1937 was the 26nd year.).

The big characters in the top are

> 安徽
> Anhui province

The big characters in the bottom are

> 揚溪鎮
> Yangxi town

Please look at the first character carefully by yourself. It may be 楊 as 楊 and 揚 are very very similar. Searching on the internet, I find there is a town by the name of 揚溪鎮 (simplified Chinese: 扬溪镇) in the county of 绩溪 (Jixi), prefecture-level city of 宣城(Xuancheng) , 安徽 province. Of course, there is still a chance that the first character is 楊 if the original name has been changed.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-05-28. Score: 2

安徽Ān​huī 杨溪镇 Yángxīzhèn = Yángxī town


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