Doe
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Post by Doe on Feb 1, 2016 2:41:10 GMT
I came across a couple of German postcards from my collection that I had stored online, and thought I'd share them here. Nurnberg, Germany- Est. 1313 Brat House  Sent from Nurnberg, Germany 1 Sept 1937  Roman monument Potsdam, Germany- real photo postcard  Sent from Berlin in 1937  |
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Doe
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Post by Doe on Feb 1, 2016 2:42:26 GMT
This postcard's two images were reinserted in the previous post during The Great Photobucket Kerfuffle of 2017.
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Doe
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Post by Doe on Jul 20, 2019 20:36:19 GMT
This German postcard is not old, but it was part of the Zeppelin lot I received today, and I like it.
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 21, 2019 11:58:58 GMT
Doe:
A magnificent post card for those of us who collect Aircraft on Covers! Is it postally used?
Don StampHinger
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Doe
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Post by Doe on Jul 21, 2019 14:44:40 GMT
Doe: A magnificent post card for those of us who collect Aircraft on Covers! Is it postally used? Don StampHinger Thanks! No, clean back. Printed in Hamburg, and I believe the artist is Gunther Todt. |
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Post by daniel on Apr 30, 2022 19:25:31 GMT
I hope that it is okay to revive this thread.
A postcard from Cassel, Germany to Birmingham, England dated 13.11.04 depicting a mounted Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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Post by jimwentzell on May 12, 2022 3:27:00 GMT
This German FELDPOST postcard I received in a collection bought at auction recently caught my eye because it had pre-printed likenesses of contemporary Chinese stamps. Not in color, but printed a monochrome black, as were (printed in blue like the outer frame of the postcard) also the boxed auxiliary markings. Quite the find for a general postal history collector. There is no payment required for German soldiers; "Feldpost" is only to be marked, often by hand by the sender or with a preprinted sticker. Yet there appears a piece of selvage from German stamp sheets on the bottom, serving no obvious purpose. The cancel "K(aiserliches=.D(Deutsche). FELDPOSTEXPEDITION/des/OSTASIATISCHEN/EXPEDITIONSCORPS" dated 24/10 synchronizes with the sender's handwritten date just before the greeting: 24-10-1902. The cancel is of black ink and appears genuine. The German concession around Tsingtao probably welcomed the East Asian Feldpost Expedition which was just a year or so before caught up in the "Boxer Rebellion." Maybe these postcards were printed and supplied in quantities to the soldiers (note the preprinted blue boxed Regiment cachet lower left) I'm just not sure why the current Chinese stamps were depicted, maybe to remind the soldiers they didn't need to frank their postcards/mail home?   On the reverse is a request by the sender, to have the recipient, if I deciphered the German-language cursive writing correctly, procure 50 liters of some type of oil--maybe corn oil (Maisöl) to be incurred without a shipping charge! On the front the addressee Carl Gily (sp?) is c/o the Maisöl Fabrikant (factory) in Lichterfelde, today a part of Berlin, Maybe it's a combined greeting AND purchase order. Here is the enlarged section (upside down on the reverse): 
That's why I like postal history so much, it's so much more than just the stamp!!! --Jim |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 12, 2022 6:42:56 GMT
Very interesting post, Jim ( jimwentzell), thanks for sharing! I don't know much about this material, but let's tag some other members who may be able to comment: PostmasterGS, salentin, cara |
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salentin
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Post by salentin on May 12, 2022 12:59:02 GMT
Cannot make much sence of the strange placement of the chinese "black-prints" on the card, if it had been produced as a souvenir-card. I cannot decipher the message,but it sounds somehow absurd to me,if it really meant,that some one would send 50 l of oil to China (?) ,postpaid. What I am really missing on this card is the arrival cancel of Lichterfelde or an appropriate arrival cancel by the field-post service in Germany. The field-post cancel on the front looks slightly different from the illustration in the Michel-cat. But maybe different types were in use.
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scub
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Post by scub on May 12, 2022 18:44:52 GMT
Not really rare... but proof of how long stamps have been collected in my family. Sender: my grandfather Recipient: my grandma   |
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cara
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What I collect: Germany (FRG, GDR, Berlin); occupied Germany 1945-1949, Deutsches Reich 1872-1945, Switzerland, USA (newbie)
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Post by cara on May 12, 2022 21:12:04 GMT
Very nice souvenir scub even if it is not rare. I also have some old covers and postcards from my family. Beryllium Guy jimwentzell , unfortunately I can not say anything about the postcard from China either, I have never seen such a postcard and also found nothing in the German forum. However, in my Michel letters catalog I found an almost identical postmark from that time (Boxer Rebellion), only the date had a different format. |
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Post by PostmasterGS on May 12, 2022 21:50:39 GMT
jimwentzell , Just a quick swag without doing any in-depth research... Could the date be 1900 vice 1902? Feldpost service for the Ostasisiatischen Expeditionscorps was only possible from 18 Oct 1900 - 31 Aug 1901. The cancel is correct for the use, ArGe Kolonien catalog ID K.D. FELDPOSTEXPED DES OSTASITISCHEN EXPEDITIONSCORPS a ◆3, Friedemann number FP6. Minimum premium for that cancel, as it's the most common of the Expedition's FP cancels. The Chinese postal stationery and uncancelled stamps were likely used simply for philatelic purposes, as the card wouldn't have passed through the Chinese postal system. Chinese cards were not provided to the German soldiers, so the sender had to have made a point to get one. The rubber handstamped unit identification is pretty standard on feldpost cards of the period. The sender was required to note his unit on the card, and the handstamps simply made it easier than handwriting it every time. The unit on this card, the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, would date the card to the Corps period (pre-May 1901), when there were 6 infantry regiments, numbered 1-6. After that date, the Occupation Corps became an Occupation Brigade and was reduced to three infantry regiments, numbered 1-3. As to the text, I gave up on attempting to translate old German script long ago. I can recommend a service if you really want it deciphered.
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Post by philatelia on Jun 1, 2022 21:36:32 GMT
A few German postcards from the 1920s with international rates. Note the address - “Lansing, Michigan, North America” . And check out the bus cancel.   |
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Post by sudbury12000 on Apr 4, 2023 18:17:29 GMT
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Post by sudbury12000 on Jul 10, 2023 15:53:15 GMT
another one showed up in the mail last week, with about 60 others. Still trying to sort. Some are in not so good shape, but this one was presentable!   |
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Post by sudbury12000 on Dec 4, 2023 0:59:06 GMT
another one showed up in the mail last week, with about 60 others. Still trying to sort. Some are in not so good shape, but this one was presentable! This card is for sale in my auctions this week, if anyone is interested.
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dorincard
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Post by dorincard on Dec 4, 2023 2:53:40 GMT
How about old German maxicards?
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