Changing Face of Hua Hin

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Re: Changing Face of Hua Hin

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Did a look for the 2 satang stamp shown and looks like 1912-1919 era
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I've expanded the stamp a little, and the closest reference/similarity that I can find dates back to 1883.
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I think 2416 equates to about 1873
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He's obviously a little older in the postcard stamp.
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Found it here - 1914-16
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I did a bit of a search on the stamp as well.The stamp puts the card in or about 1909. The stamp is a 2 atts stamp overprinted with 2 satangs. Satangs were introduced in 1909 and replaced the previous fractions of the baht (64 atts in a baht (or tical)). The stamp can be seen here. And the currency explanation can be found here. Of all the original subdivisions of the baht only the salung (= 25 satang) appears to remain in common use, and mostly when dealing in gold.
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Ouch! I was a bit slow posting otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Migrant's offering is more likely given the date on the card.
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Thanks for fixing the pic BB!! :cheers:
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The Monarch on the stamp is Rama V, Chulalongkorn, who reigned until 1910.

Would Siam still have used these stamps after that date?
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Haven't read up on it but Rama V was a very popular King both locally and globally so maybe his influences carried on for some time into Rama VI's reign
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That looks about right Big Boy.
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Takiap wrote:
Khundon1975 wrote:
dtaai-maai wrote:Looks like the date is in the bottom right corner of the postcard - April 1916?

Thanks DM, :thumb: I'm crap at Thai dates, if the wife had been here I would have asked her.

I don't think you need a translator, but you might want to consider having your eyes tested. :duck: :laugh: The date on the postcard is not in Thai.

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:D

22/4 . 16

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Takiap wrote::D 22/4 . 16 :cheers:
Or in Amurkan, 4/22. 16 :laugh:
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dtaai-maai wrote:Looks like the date is in the bottom right corner of the postcard - April 1916?
dtaai-maai and Takiap :oops: :oops: :oops:

I was so fixated on the damn stamp looking for the date, that I didn't look on the postcard. :?

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Just before I go, does anybody think that the rocks in the picture on the postcard, are those below the Hilton?

Answers on a postcard please. :wink:
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