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Post by wgthomus on Jul 9, 2018 18:37:29 GMT
Hello all, One of my main areas of study are the Rosetten stamps of the German Inflation Period. I have created a PowerPoint presentation of some of the better ones in my collection. The link is below; Below is an example of a Rosetten stamp. Enjoy the PPT and I'll add additional covers here as well until I can update the PPT.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2018 20:20:56 GMT
Excellent Pwpt presentation You will find a better "reception" at TSF for your material. The above link needs to be redone as it only includes a partial URL Perhaps you might post a sequence of single covers up to the 10 Renten Marks
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 9, 2018 20:39:55 GMT
Thanks for the reply! I do plan on adding individual covers to this thread. I have quite a number of them not in the PPT, so will share them here.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 9, 2018 21:05:48 GMT
Hello all, One of my main areas of study are the Rosetten stamps of the German Inflation Period. I have created a PowerPoint presentation of some of the better ones in my collection. Enjoy the PPT and I'll add additional covers here as well until I can update the PPT.
William, many thanks for the great PPT presentation. I have already downloaded a copy for my reference material, thank you! I have also made a related, belated post on your original intro thread, which looks like it never got the attention that it should have. Sorry about that; will try to be more vigilant from now on!
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Post by blaamand on Jul 9, 2018 21:13:44 GMT
wgthomus - That's a truly impressive presentation of Postal history from the inflation period. Really interesting and some awesome covers. Thanks for sharing. Jon
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 9, 2018 21:41:11 GMT
This is a fun cover. Though not really a German Inflation cover, someone was really creative with excess Rosetten stamps and applied them as decorations!!
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 10, 2018 19:50:54 GMT
Here is a new acquisition to my collection. I have sent a scan off to an INFLA-Berlin examiner and response back is that it is genuine, of course will need to send it to Germany for a final exam!
What is so great about this cover is the upper margins! The first 2 are "broken" Type B (no lines), fields 5 & 6. I do not know why Michel doesn't recognize these as Type A, does anyone here know the answer? The Michel catalog is very specific on this with its notation! The English version states "For MiNr. 326 B P OR B, breaks in the bar of dashes can occur above positions 5 and 6. These are not A-margins!"
As depicted below, Michel does recognize the ABC variety of this stamp though;
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 12, 2018 17:10:20 GMT
Another great cover from the collection. This cover was sent 1 Feb 1924 using a 10 Millionen stamp instead of a 10 Pfennig stamp, both pretty close to the same color. Not sure if intentional or a mistake, but the post office missed it and let it go through the mail. It is also canceled with a nice railroad stamp, Liepzig-Saalfeld Zug 364. Every once in awhile, one of these will show up!
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 17, 2018 0:10:26 GMT
One of the fun things with my collection is that I look for different things besides covers. Below is part of my "date" collection. All of these have been examined and deemed genuine from the INFLA-Berlin group of examiners. I still have a few left to find, along with the last 3 stamps with the 1.12.23 date. I'm also building a "date" page with dates of first day of issue, much harder to complete for sure!
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Post by blaamand on Jul 17, 2018 0:51:49 GMT
wgthomus - William - I salute your work! Both absolutely brilliant and interesting - your pages are looking very professional, even stunning!! Congratulations Jon
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 17, 2018 3:41:08 GMT
2 more pages from the collection!! The first are used copies (again, all examined and deemed genuine from the INFLA-Berlin group) of the HT plate flaw. The second page are mint copies of the ST plate flaw (which are corrections to the HT plate flaw).
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 17, 2018 4:36:41 GMT
Last page for the time being. These are what I have for imperforated (U) and bottom imperforated (Uu) varieties so far.
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 22, 2018 0:49:07 GMT
I like to track some items and below is a cover from my collection that I'm always looking to see if any others crop up. I have scans of 10 covers to date, so if anyone here has any scans, I would love to hear from you!
I note the covers by the individual registered numbers, so the scans I have are as follows; 193, 257, 260, 269, 270, 272, 273, 274, 283 & 284.
I also have a few of the unused Erfurt test prints in my collection (and am always looking to pick up any others I may come across that are reasonably priced!).
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 22, 2018 1:08:26 GMT
2 more scans of items in the collection. Haven't quite built the under page for these yet, on that ever growing project list!!
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 29, 2018 20:34:29 GMT
Here is a really nice recent purchase. Correctly franked for period 26 (26 Nov - 30 Nov), 4 times rate on a domestic cover. What makes it a great cover is that it is franked with 4 336B (the rouletted version of the stamp). Use of these stamps were unpopular, hence they become pretty rare!!
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 29, 2018 23:23:56 GMT
I just acquired this postcard and would like to know why the post office would write the sender's last name in blue on the postcard. I know the post office uses blue (and red) to mark notations on covers, but why the sender's last name? I read it as "Unfried". Is there a different meaning that I'm missing? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!!
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 30, 2018 11:54:10 GMT
... I read it as "Unfried". Is there a different meaning that I'm missing? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!! Perhaps it reads "unclaimed." EDIT: But now that I've had my morning coffee, that makes absolutely no sense at all...unless it had been sent to a U.S. address.
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 30, 2018 23:06:46 GMT
The literal translation for "unfried" is "discordant". But, look above the blue marking and you will see the sender's address; abs R... (Rosle?) Unfried Schw. Hall W... Str Nr.12, so pretty sure it's sender's last name. Someone posed that the marking was added privately, though couldn't explain why someone would do that.
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 31, 2018 3:39:00 GMT
I'm always looking for unique and interesting items for my collection. I came across this half sheet of Mi 313 (500,000 Mark) used. Postmarked 3-Nov-1923, which falls in Postal Period 22 (1 Nov - 4 Nov), the shortest period of the high inflation! This denomination stamp is not very common, so a half sheet is a great find!!
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 31, 2018 6:39:08 GMT
I don't quite remember what stamp(s) were on this cover but I do know that it was/is the largest Inflation cover known. This was at London 2010, A Festival of Stamps. Just thought I'd show it for the fun !!
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 31, 2018 19:00:28 GMT
Wow, love it!! I count 575 stamps on the front side. Are those sheets also on the back side? Without a blowup of the picture, I'm "guessing" those are 100Mk Officials judging by the color. Would love to see a close up of the stamps and possibly a date! What a great item for any collection!
The largest quantity I have on a cover (really a packet card) is 315 stamps. Which is 3 full sheets (of the harder to find 324AP/W combination), folded in quarters, plus 15 extra stamps.
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 31, 2018 19:44:49 GMT
This is my cover with 100 of the 100Mk Official stamps on it.
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Post by wgthomus on Jul 31, 2018 23:20:04 GMT
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Post by wgthomus on Aug 1, 2018 0:12:53 GMT
Part of my collection contains full sheets. This sheet is pretty rare as it is complete with the Rhein-Ruhr overprint. These just do not come available very often, though I do occasionally see the single stamps.
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Post by wgthomus on Aug 1, 2018 1:31:32 GMT
This is a used full complete sheet. I have not come across many of these that I'm able to add into my collection, so when I'm able to, well that makes me pretty happy! This is post marked 4 Nov 1923, the last day of period 22 and would have been the proper franking for a 20gr. Inland Letter.
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Post by wgthomus on Aug 1, 2018 2:02:09 GMT
Here is a great item from my collection. This is a folded advertising flyer listing German stamps to be paid in Gold marks. It is properly franked for a foreign printed matter item. This was sent to the US and contains uncommon upper margin.
I was able to find another one of these flyers, this time sent to Nova Scotia (although not sure why it says USA on it!)
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Post by wgthomus on Aug 1, 2018 2:50:27 GMT
A rarity out of my collection. This is a single franking of a 334B (unpopular rouletted stamp). It pays the correct fee for an inland postcard.
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Post by wgthomus on Aug 1, 2018 2:55:45 GMT
Another unusual and very uncommon cover from the collection. This is a "Postauftrag" cover, which was uncommon in the high inflation period. I have not seen very many of these cover with the rosetten stamps on then, only 2 others in fact.
"Postauftrag" means postal collection order. The post office was charged with collecting money from the receiver, but with the way that currency changed value nearly daily, collecting money 1 day could mean a lower value the next day!
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Post by wgthomus on Aug 1, 2018 3:04:08 GMT
Another unusual item in my collection is this newspaper wrapper which is complete with the newspaper inside, unopened and unread! I have a number of newspaper wrappers in my collection and have been patiently searching for the papers that belong with them!
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 1, 2018 12:16:52 GMT
I have followed this tread for a while, it's interesting. I happen to have two "rosetten" covers. They both have stamps on front and backside, but one of them are not cancelled on the backside. I have no idea if they are fake or real? Here is the first. Franked with 20! 2 Milliarden stamps. Sent on 18 november 1923 from Freiburg to Shaffenhausen, Switzerland?
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